Top institutions in Belgium for Engineering

8 institutions · Engineering · Belgium

Which institutions in Belgium have the most top-cited scientists in Engineering?

122 researchers in Belgium whose main field is Engineering are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 5.6% of all listed authors in Belgium, and 23rd of 103 countries in the field. 39 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). KU Leuven has the most (40), followed by Universiteit Gent (23) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (11). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
122
5.6% of all in Belgium
In the global top 100,000
39
32.0% of them
Country rank in the field
#23
of 103 countries in Engineering
Highest-ranked
#822
van der Bruggen, Bart
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1KU Leuven4015#56van der Bruggen, Bart #822
2Universiteit Gent237#158Van Geem, Kevin M. #8,510
3Vrije Universiteit Brussel112#379Vanderborght, Bram #37,258
4UCLouvain104#390Nesterov, Yu E. #2,289
5European Commission Joint Research Centre63#646Bournas, Dionysios A. #24,138
6Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre51#791Beyne, Eric #51,404
7Université Libre de Bruxelles51#816Preumont, André #77,502
8Université de Liège31#1,194Franssen, Jean Marc #84,327

The top 100 in Engineering in Belgium, in order

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
    Van Geem, Kevin M.
    Universiteit Gent
  5. 5
    Abdel Wahab, Magd M.
    Universiteit Gent
  6. 6
    Vanhellemont, Quinten
    Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
    Sörensen, Kenneth
    Universiteit Antwerpen
  11. 11
  12. 12
    Bournas, Dionysios A.
    European Commission Joint Research Centre
  13. 13
    Dewil, Raf
    KU Leuven
  14. 14
    Vanhoucke, Mario
    Universiteit Gent
  15. 15
    Vanderborght, Bram
    Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  16. 16
  17. 17
  18. 18
  19. 19
  20. 20
  21. 21
    de Roo, Ad P.J.
    European Commission Joint Research Centre
  22. 22
    Beyne, Eric
    Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre
  23. 23
  24. 24
    Froment, Gilbert F.
    Universiteit Gent
  25. 25
    Payan, Meghdad
    Universiteit Gent
  26. 26
    Calders, Kim
    Universiteit Gent
  27. 27
  28. 28
  29. 29
    Preumont, André
    Université Libre de Bruxelles
  30. 30
    Franssen, Jean Marc
    Université de Liège
  31. 31
  32. 32
    Brauers, Willem Karel M.
    Universiteit Antwerpen
  33. 33
  34. 34
    Toint, Philippe L.
    Namur Institute for Complex Systems
  35. 35
  36. 36
    Belpaeme, Tony
    Universiteit Gent
  37. 37
    Brans, Jean Pierre
    Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  38. 38
    Yaman, Hande
    KU Leuven
  39. 39
    Mélin, Frédéric
    European Commission Joint Research Centre
  40. 40
    Belward, Alan S.
    European Commission Joint Research Centre
  41. 41
    Huang, Haosheng
    Universiteit Gent
  42. 42
    Khatir, Samir
    Universiteit Gent
  43. 43
    Claverie, Martin
    European Commission Joint Research Centre
  44. 44
    Somers, Ben
    KU Leuven
  45. 45
    Hegazy, Omar T.M.
    Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  46. 46
    Allacker, Karen
    Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen
  47. 47
  48. 48
  49. 49
  50. 50
    Bezuijen, Adam
    Universiteit Gent
  51. 51
    Le Saux, Bertrand
    European Commission
  52. 52
    van Griensven, Ann
    Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  53. 53
    Dimitriadis, Grigorios
    Université de Liège
  54. 54
    Van De Voorde, Tim
    Universiteit Gent
  55. 55
    Merci, Bart
    Universiteit Gent
  56. 56
    Röck, Martin
    KU Leuven
  57. 57
    Ruddick, Kevin George
    Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen
  58. 58
    Verhoest, Niko E.C.
    Universiteit Gent
  59. 59
  60. 60
    Michiels, Wim
    Departement Computerwetenschappen
  61. 61
  62. 62
  63. 63
    Degroote, Joris
    Universiteit Gent
  64. 64
    Reynaert, Patrick
    Departement Elektrotechniek (ESAT)
  65. 65
    Geris, Liesbet
    Université de Liège
  66. 66
    Hosseini, Seyed Saeid
    Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  67. 67
    Pintelon, Rik M.
    Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  68. 68
    Swevers, Jan
    KU Leuven
  69. 69
    Van Hulle, Stijn W.H.
    Universiteit Gent
  70. 70
  71. 71
  72. 72
    Lauwers, Bert
    KU Leuven
  73. 73
    Ganigué, Ramon
    Universiteit Gent
  74. 74
  75. 75
    Cornelissen, Emile R.
    Universiteit Gent
  76. 76
    Blanpain, Bart
    Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen
  77. 77
    Haitjema, Han
    KU Leuven
  78. 78
  79. 79
    Wu, Di
    Universiteit Gent
  80. 80
    Dewulf, Wim
    KU Leuven
  81. 81
  82. 82
  83. 83
    Marin, Guy B.
    Universiteit Gent
  84. 84
    Doghri, Issam
    UCLouvain
  85. 85
    Schoukens, Johan F.M.
    Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  86. 86
    Mauroy, Alexandre
    Namur Institute for Complex Systems
  87. 87
    Salamon, Peter
    European Commission Joint Research Centre
  88. 88
    Bol, David
    UCLouvain
  89. 89
    Verbeke, Rhea
    KU Leuven
  90. 90
  91. 91
  92. 92
    Craninckx, Jan
    Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre
  93. 93
  94. 94
    Sergeant, Peter L.
    Universiteit Gent
  95. 95
  96. 96
    Becker, William E.
    European Commission
  97. 97
    van Helleputte, Nick
    Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre
  98. 98
    Pyl, Lincy
    Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  99. 99
    Garone, Emanuele
    Université Libre de Bruxelles
  100. 100

122 listed scientists in Engineering in Belgium

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