Yentl Swolfs

Prof. Yentl Swolfs obtained his master’s degree in Materials Engineering from KU Leuven in 2010. In January 2015, he obtained his PhD in Materials Engineering. The title of his thesis was: "Hybridisation of Self-reinforced Composites: Modeling and Verifying a Novel Hybrid Concept". This PhD was performed under the framework of the EU-FP7 project HIVOCOMP. After completing his PhD, he spent a year at Imperial College London on a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship working with Prof. Silvestre Pinho. He then went on to hold a 3-year FWO postdoctoral fellowship at KU Leuven working on fibre-hybrid composites with high-performance polymer fibres. He was appointed research professor in the Department of Materials Engineering in 2019, where he leads the research line on “Micro- and Meso-structural design of composites”. He is the coordinator of the Composite Materials Group at KU Leuven, and director of the XCT Core Facility of KU Leuven. In 2022, he won the ESCM award for most promising researcher under 35 years of age. In 2025, he was awarded the Kelly Prize of ICCM, for composites scientists in the early stage of their professional career.