Nico F. Declercq

Nico F. Declercq
Nico F. Declercq
	Nico F. Declercq at Blauwhuis, Izegem, June 10, 2023
Born	December 27, 1975; Kortrijk, Belgium
Nationality	Belgian
Other names	Declercq de Patin, Desclergue
Citizenship	Belgium
Alma mater	Catholic University of Leuven; Ghent University;
Known for	study of diffraction of acoustic waves and ultrasound waves
Spouse	Shirani Olupathage de Silva
Children	Benjamin J. H. Declercq, Anna-Laura F. M. Declercq, Lambert L. B. Declercq
Awards	2006 International Dennis Gabor Award; 2007 Early Career Award of the International Commission for Acoustics; 2022 Physics Professor Honoris Causa, University of Allahabad, India;
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics; Engineering Physics; Mechanical Engineering; History;
Institutions	Georgia Institute of Technology
Patrons	Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT, Belgium); National Fund for Scientific Research (FWO, Belgium); North Atlantic Treaty Organization;
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 a professor with the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and Georgia Tech Europe 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, Medical Physics and Acoustic Microscopy. He has investigated the acoustics of Chichen Itza and Epidaurus. He published over 100 works in scientific journals. As a Ph.D. student (September 5, 2001 - May 12, 2005), Declercq published 30 peer-reviewed articles in reputed scientific journals, including Annalen der Physik, and made 42 presentations (with papers in proceedings) at international congresses in his field. His work was highlighted in Nature News, New Scientist, USA Today, The Economist, The Washington Post, Die Zeit, and Acoustics Today.

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