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Authors’ Biographies
ALEXIS DE VOS
Alexis De Vos is an electrical engineer, physicist, and doctor in applied sciences and graduated
from the Universiteit Gent (Belgium). He is currently a part-time professor in the Department
of Electronics of the Universiteit Gent. His research is concerned with material science (poly-
mers, semiconductors, metals, liquid crystals), microelectronics (thin films, chips, neural net-
works, reversible circuits), and energy sciences (thermodynamics, solar energy, endoreversible
engines). He is author of the books ermodynamics of Solar Energy Conversion (Wiley-VCH,
2008) and Reversible Computing (Wiley-VCH, 2010). He designed and produced several pro-
totype integrated circuits for reversible computers such as adders, multipliers, and linear trans-
formers. He currently investigates quantum computing.
STIJN DE BAERDEMACKER
Stijn De Baerdemacker is a physicist and doctor in sciences and graduated from the Universiteit
Gent (Belgium). He has been a visiting scientist at the University of Toronto (ON, Canada),
University of Notre Dame (IN, USA) and Universiteit Amsterdam (e Netherlands). He is
currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Univer-
siteit Gent. His research is concerned with the development of accurate quantum many-body
methods in quantum physics, quantum chemistry and quantum computing. For this, he uses
and develops techniques from Lie algebra theory and notions from (quantum) integrability. In
his free time, he is a painter and explores the boundaries between science and art.
YVAN VAN RENTERGEM
Yvan Van Rentergem is an electrical engineer and doctor in applied sciences and graduated
from the Universiteit Gent (Belgium). He obtained his Ph.D. in 2008 in the subject of re-
versible computing. During his research, he developed algorithms for the synthesis of reversible
circuits. ese methods were applied for real-life prototype chips. His research led to ten arti-
cles presented at international conferences or published in international journals. After earning
his Ph.D., he went to work at ArcelorMittal Gent as operations research specialist, developing
models to optimize the logistical flow of the steel shop. ese models are successfully applied at
ArcelorMittal Gent and several other sites of ArcelorMittal. He currently is slab yard support
manager at ArcelorMittal Gent.
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