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Research line coordinator

Karen Feyen

Currently, Karen works as a researcher and coordinator of the research line on applied AI at the Thomas More. Her interests include applications of technology in the fields of energy efficiency, circular economy and healthcare.

About Karen

Karen received her master's degree in Physics and then her Doctor of Science (Phd) degree from the University of Antwerp for her numerical research of quantum mechanical processes in intense laser fields.

She worked at an internet provider as a network engineer, project manager, Y2K manager and business process manager respectively. Afterwards, she switched to the healthcare sector as an expert in medical radiation physics for which she followed a Clinical and Biomedical Engineering Techniques accredited by FANC. Her PhD thesis concerned multimodal image registration of mammograms.
Her tasks at the hospital included modelling the output of linear accelerators in the software used to create radiation plans. She chaired the Belgian Association of Belgian Hospital Physicists and participated in quality audits of radiotherapy centres in Belgium.

She then worked as a staff engineer at AMS Sensors Belgium where she designed the process of semiconductor implantation for a new image sensor using process simulation.
Furthermore, she developed a technique for optimising microlenses. In addition, she co-founded the energy cooperative Zuidtrant-W in 2019 of which she is still a director. During this period, she also volunteered to take on the role of operational coordinator at Warmte Verzilverd, a company that realises heat networks financed by citizen capital.

Currently, Karen works as a researcher in applied AI at the Thomas More. Her interests include applications of technology in the fields of energy efficiency, circular economy and healthcare.