Dr. Fons de Waele Biography

 

De Waele got his PhD in Leiden in Dec. 1972 on the Josephson Effect. After that he moved to the Eindhoven University of Technology where he stayed for the rest of his career. From 1973 to 1994 he worked on dilution refrigeration. In 1995 he changed topics and started working mainly on pulse-tube refrigerators till his retirement in 2001. He had 18 PhD’s under his supervision. De Waele was active in teaching Thermodynamics, Mechanics, and Cryogenics for the students in Eindhoven, but he was also organizer of CryoCourses for PhD students and has given short courses on DR’s and cryocoolers in many places all over the world. After his retirement De Waele is still active as an advisor in various projects.