Stefaan Vaes
Stefaan Vaes is a Belgian mathematician.
Vaes studied mathematics at KU Leuven with a diploma in 1998 and a PhD in 2001 with thesis advisor Alfons Van Daele and thesis Locally Compact Quantum Groups. As a postdoc, he worked from 1998 to 2002 at KU Leuven and from 1998 to 2002 in Paris, where he did research for CNRS. In 2002, he began part-time teaching at KU Leuven, where he became an associate professor in 2006 and a full professor in 2009.
He was a visiting professor in 2009 at Pierre and Marie Curie University and in 2011 at Paris Diderot University . In 2005, he held the Peccot Chair at the Collège de France.
His research deals with Von Neumann algebras and quantum groups.
In 2010, Vaes was an invited speaker with a talk on Rigidity for von Neumann algebras and their invariants at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2015, he received the Francqui Prize.
His doctoral students include.