Thomas Hertog

Thomas Hertog is an internationally renowned cosmologist and was for many years a close collaborator of Stephen Hawking. He is head of the Gravitational Wave Center at the University of Leuven, leading Belgium's participation in the European Space Agency's first mission devoted to gravitational waves. He has lectured in more than 25 countries and in 2015 was awarded the Prize of the Flemish Science Foundation for his research.