Prof. Dr. Ir. Inge Bellemans has been working since 2013 as a researcher in the Sustainable Materials Science research group at Ghent University (Belgium). First, as a PhD student with a fellowship from the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), then as a post-doctoral researcher. In that period, she also went to MIT for a research stay. Since 2019, she has been appointed as a part-time assistant professor and since 2024 she has been appointed as full-time associate professor, as she obtained an ERC Starting Grant.

Initially, during her PhD, she worked on the investigation of efficiency of extractive metallurgy processes through a combination of microstructural evolution phase-field simulations and high temperature experiments. During her postdoc, she extended her expertise on experimental work and modelling in a high temperature context. On the experimental front, dedicated methodologies are being developed to determine hard-to-accurately-measure oxidic slag properties at high temperatures. On the modelling front, both higher scales (CFD modelling, process modelling, flowsheet modelling and TEA) and smaller scales (molecular level) are considered to investigate energy and resource efficiency together with process and safety optimisation for pyrometallurgical extractive metallurgy contexts.