Nico F. Declercq

Nico F. Declercq
Born (1975-12-27) December 27, 1975
Kortrijk, Belgium
Residence
Nationality Belgium
Other names Declercq de Patin[1]
Citizenship Belgium
Alma mater
Known for study of diffraction of acoustic waves and ultrasound waves
Spouse(s) Shirani Olupathage de Silva [2][3][4][5]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Physics
Institutions Georgia Institute of Technology
Patrons
Thesis The interaction of complex harmonic elastic waves with periodically corrugated surfaces and with anisotropic viscoelastic and/or piezoelectric layered media (2005)
Doctoral advisor Oswald Leroy
Other academic advisors Mack A. Breazeale
Website declercq.gatech.edu

Nico Felicien Declercq (Kortrijk (Belgium), 27 December 1975) is a physicist and mechanical engineer. He is an associate professor with the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and Georgia Tech Lorraine in France. He is specialized in ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation of materials, propagation of ultrasonic waves in highly complex materials, in acoustics, in theoretical and experimental linear and nonlinear ultrasonics, acousto-optics, Physics in Medicine and Acoustic Microscopy. He has investigated the acoustics of Chichen Itza and Epidaurus.[6][7][8]

Education, career and awards

Declercq received his BSc and MSc in physics (with option astrophysics) from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1996 and 2000, respectively, and received a PhD in engineering physics from Ghent University in 2005. He worked as a Belgian National Science Foundation (FWO Vlaanderen) postdoctoral fellow with Ghent University before he accepted a faculty position with Georgia Tech in 2006.

Declercq received the International Dennis Gabor Award from the NOVOFER Foundation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on December 21, 2006. He received the ICA Early Career Award "For outstanding contributions to ultrasonics, particularly for studies of propagation and diffraction of acoustic waves" from the International Commission for Acoustics in 2007.[9]

Declercq has been president (2013-2015) of the steering board of the International Congress on Ultrasonics,[10] as well as president of their 2015 congress.[11] He is an associate editor of the journal Acta Acustica united with Acustica,[12] associate editor of the Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation,[13] and founding editor-in-chief of Elsevier's Physics in Medicine.[14] He serves on technical committees of the French Acoustical Society and is the Chair of the Ultrasonics Technical Committee of the European Acoustics Association[15].

Coat of arms

Arms of Nico F. Declercq and his descendants as depicted in the Old Armoral of the Swiss Heraldic Society (SHG)[16]

Declercq's coat of arms consists of the following elements:[17][18]

Motto: Érudit et sage à pied levé (English: educated and wise on a raised foot)

Blazon: on the bordure a compone of 14 pieces gold and azur of which five at the top, an azur shield, having a silver crane with raised foot, membered and beaked in red, holding in the right foot an upright feather in gold, accompanied in chief by two six-pointed stars and at the bottom a sun in gold (original blazon in French: A la bordure componnée de quatorze pièces d’or et d’azur dont cinq au chef, un écusson d’azur, a une grue d’argent sur pied, membrée et becquée de gueules, tenant de la patte dextre une plume d’oie taillée d’or posée en pal, accompagnée en chef de deux étoiles radiée de 6 pointes d’or et en ponte un soleil d'or.)

Crest: A rising silver swan with red beak (original crest in French: un cygne éployé d'argent et becquée de gueules)

Origin: The coat of arms contains colours and elements referring to that of Declercq’s ancestors de Patin (a Flemish family originating in the 14th century in Cambrai, France[19]), with shield placed in front of the original shield (in catalan: Cortado Jaquelado de oro y azur, 2º, de azur, dos palos de oro) of his Spanish paternal ancestors Desclergues (originating in the 16th century in Catalunya, Spain)[20].

References

  1. ↑ Declercq de Patin, Nico Felicien (2017). "Editorial Introduction on Proceedings of the 2015 International Congress on Ultrasonics, 2015 ICU Metz". Physics Procedia. 70 (Proceedings of the 2015 International Congress on Ultrasonics, Metz, France): 1–5. doi:10.1016/j.phpro.2015.08.001. Retrieved 2018-07-11.
  2. ↑ Biography of Declercq Nico Felicien in Marquis Who's Who in America
  3. ↑ Genealogy information on Declercq's website
  4. ↑ de Salazar y Castro, Luis (1685). Historia genealogica de la Casa de Silva (English : Genealogical history of the House of de Silva) (1st ed.). Retrieved September 17, 2014.
  5. ↑ a review of the battle led by Dom Diogo de Silva at Horana and Uduwara (birthplace of Declercq’s spouse) and the consequent construction of a Portuguese fortress there; in P. E. Pieris, Litt. D., “Ceylon and the Portuguese 1505-1658”, Chapter VII, pp. 132-133, American Ceylon Mission Press, Tellippalai, Ceylon, 1920.
  6. ↑ Chao, Tom (5 April 2007). "Mystery of Greek Amphitheater's Amazing Sound Finally Solved". LiveScience. Retrieved 2007-04-05.
  7. ↑ Vedantam, Shankar (9 April 2007). "Seating in Ancient Greek Theater Found to Help the Acoustics". Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-04-14.
  8. ↑ "No need to shout, Why the acoustics of ancient Greek theatres are so good". The Economist. 29 March 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-14.
  9. ↑ "ICA - Early Career Award - Past Recipients". International Commission for Acoustics. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  10. ↑ "Members of ICU Board and of Young Scientist Advisory Committee YSAC" (PDF). International Congress on Ultrasonics.
  11. ↑ "Welcome message". 2015 International Congress on Ultrasonics.
  12. ↑ "Editorial Board". Acta Acustica united with Acustica. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  13. ↑ "Editorial Board". Springer’s Journal on Nondestructive Evaluation. Retrieved 2015-05-14.
  14. ↑ "Editorial Board". Physics in Medicine. Elsevier. Retrieved 2014-07-22.
  15. ↑ "Website of the European Acoustics Association". Retrieved 2018-07-11.
  16. ↑ Foppoli, Marco (July 2018). "Armor of Prof Nico F. Declercq, Kortrijk, Be" in the Old Armoral. Schweizerische Heraldische Gesellshaft (SHG) (Société Suisse d'Héraldique - Società Svizzera di Araldica).
  17. ↑ "Familiewapens". Vlaamse Stam, tijdschrift voor familiegeschiedenis (Familiekunde Vlaanderen vzw, Kennisknooppunt voor familiegeschiedenis). 53 (4): 432. November 2017. ISSN 0774-5486.
  18. ↑ family grave of Declercq de Silva, Kerkstraat, 8540 Deerlijk, Belgium
  19. ↑ van Hoorebeke, Gustave (1853). Généalogie de la noble famille Gobert: avec un appendice relatif à la famille de Patin [The genealogy of the familly Gobert with an appendix on the familly de Patin] (in French).
  20. ↑ "Apellido Desclergues, Pagina de Heraldica, Apellidos, escudos y blasones".
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