— Experience

Program Manager Nuclear

SWECO Belgium / October 2025 - Present

Responsible for managing the contracts from SWECO Belgium withing their nuclear division.  

• Scope and budget
• Stakeholders
• Relevant processes

Managing Partner

The Binding Energy / June 2018 - September 2025

I was strongly involved in the structure and business processes allowing for organic growth from 2 to 13 FTE. Being a direct communicator, swift decision maker and having a strong forward mindset allowed TBE to build out a nuclear engineering presence in an industry, dominated by large players. My focus as a managing partner was:

• Setting up strategic business processes and goals
• Create a long term vision and translate into business plans
• HR processes, including all recruitments
• ISO management leading to certification of ISO 9001 and ISO 27001
• Supervise projects, resource planning and performance indicators related to the projects

Project Leader Nuclear Transports

ENGIE Transnubel / August 2017 - June 2018

During my time at Transnubel I worked on following topics:

• Project management for recurrent nuclear transports from Germany to France and the Netherlands.
• Licensing for a new treatment facility of nuclear waste streams
• Support on the development of new nuclear transport packaging

Project Engineer Decommissioning

SCK CEN / December 2012 - July 2017

In the decommissioning team, I focused mainly on radiological characterization. This included:

• Plan, execute and evaluate all measurements during the decommissioning
• Develop new techniques to improve estimations of contamination levels, leading to better treatment plans
• Write detailed however concise reports about the measurements for the authorities

— Fields of expertise

Technical Expertise

• Licensing of Nuclear Facilities
• Radiological Characterization
• Nuclear Safety Studies
• Qualitative Risk Assessments

Non-Technical Expertise

• Project management
• Problem Solving
• Communication
• Adaptability

Certificates

• Prevention Advisor level I, KU Leuven, 15/09/2022
• VCA-VOL, BE00007/2/NL/103370, Valid till 23/11/2027

— Education

Advanced Master in Safety Engineering

KU Leuven / 2019 - 2022
This advanced master focuses on prevention policy and safety management systems, the safety of products, processes, and installations, qualitative risk analysis techniques, and fire and explosion safety. During the courses we obtained detailed knowledge of technical and managerial process safety concepts with regard to the whole life cycle of a production plant, and risk evaluations based on qualitative and quantitative methods.
Some relevant Courses:

• Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Analysis
• Prevention Policy and Safety Management Systems
• Explosion Safety
• Safety Aspects of Industrial Installations
• Safety of Chemical and Biological Products and Chemical Processes
• Fire Protection and Building Safety
• Legal Aspects of Occupational Safety (Belgian Legislation) 

Master of Science: Nuclear Engineer

XIOS Hogeschool Limburg (UHasselt) / 2011 - 2012

 Some of the relevant courses included in my master year:

• Nuclear physics
• Reactor Technology
• Radiation protection and radiobiology