Raoul Weiler (20 October 1938 - 21 February 2019) was the founding president of the EU-Chapter of The

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. He spent several years as a post doctoral fellow at the

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and the

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in the United States and at the Centre de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, France. Weiler's career included applied research, engineering and information technology. During his professional activities, mainly as an

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manager at

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en N.V., he was elected president of the Royal Flemish Engineers Association (K VIV), counting 11.000 academic engineers. He was a long-time, active founder-president of various technological

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s and president of several international symposia, conferences and the World Congress on Filtration. Weiler lectured at different universities and taught at the University of Leuven about the relationship between technology and society for last-year students in engineering and doctoral students. Weiler actively participated in the

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(WSIS) in Geneva and Tunis, with a variety of initiatives centered on ICT and Education, and was a member of the Advisory Board of the

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. In 2017 Weiler published together with Kris Demuynck a book entitled "Food Scarcity Unavoidable by 2100? the Impact of Demography & Climate Change", of which a slide presentation is available.

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Biography of Weiler
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