Luc De Schepper (22 April 1957 – 19 December 2022) was a Belgian physicist and professor. De Schepper was rector of the

Hasselt University Hasselt University (Dutch: ''Universiteit Hasselt or UHasselt'') is a public research university with campuses in Hasselt and Diepenbeek, Belgium. It has more than 6,700 students and 1,660 academic, administrative and technical staff (2022). The ...

from 2004 to 2020. He was chairman of the Flemish Interuniversity Council from 2015 to 2017. De Schepper studied physics at the

University of Antwerp The University of Antwerp ( nl, Universiteit Antwerpen) is a major Belgian university located in the city of Antwerp. The official abbreviation is ''UA'', but ''UAntwerpen'' is more recently used. The University of Antwerp has about 20,000 stud ...

and obtained his doctorate at the

in 1983. From 1997 to 2003 he was head of the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, from 1999 to 2004 he was director of the Institute for Materials Research (IMO), a research institute of the Hasselt University, and from 2003 to 2004 he was dean of the Faculty of Science of the Hasselt University. De Schepper died on 19 December 2022, at the age of 65.

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