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2026-05-16T19:44:45Z

Francis:

<big><big><big>'''<div>                                                             Welcome on my personal Wiki!</div>'''</big></big></big>
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| style="width: 817px; text-align: center; background-color:#ffffe6;border:1px solid #808080;" | I'm convinced that wiki-like developments will become more and more influential. That's why I started to build (and hope to further develop) the [https://drebbel.net/wiki Drebbel wiki]. The underlying '''personal''' wiki further illustrates my activities and interests in recent years.
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|[[Genealogy|Genealogy]]
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|[[Hilde|Hilde's paintings]]
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|[[Photography|Photography]]
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|[[PTBA_Modelstudie|PTBA study]]
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|'''<big>What happens? When? Where?</big>''' That's the essence of physics. And the essence of life.
This website accordingly tries to resume what I did, when and where. 
The question remains: '''<big>WHY did I do it</big>'''? (Because something happened somewhere, then?)
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|Check my '''[[Curriculum_Vitae|curriculum vitae]]''' and '''[[PTBA_Modelstudie|PTBA study]]''', my life on a '''[[Timeline|timeline]]''',
an inventory of the '''[[Websites|websites]]''' I made and links to my '''[[Photography|photography]]'''. 
Look at our '''[[Travelling|Travelling]]''' or see how we danced '''[[Tangoevents|Argentine Tango]]'''. 
I'm '''[[Worries|worried]]''' about our present world and wrote this '''[[Toen en nu|Manifest on AI]]'''.
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And don't forget to admire my spouse '''[[Hilde|Hilde's paintings]]'''.
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2026-05-16T18:52:50Z

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Curriculum

2026-05-16T18:49:09Z

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<div class="WordSection1">
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="333" valign="top">CURRICULUM VITAE</td>
</tr>
</table>
1. Family
name : Franck
2. First
names : Francis
Jules Anna Paul
3. Date
of birth : 20-06-1946
4. Nationality
: Belgian
5. Civil
Status : married
6. Education
:
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td width="340" valign="top">Institution</td>
<td width="402" valign="top">Rijksuniversiteit
Gent</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="340" valign="top">Date: from (month/year)
to (month/year)</td>
<td width="402" valign="top">July-1965 
July-1971</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="340" valign="top">Degree(s) or
Diploma(s) obtained</td>
<td width="402" valign="top">Engineer
in Physics (Solid State Physics)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="340" valign="top">Institution</td>
<td width="402" valign="top">Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="340" valign="top">Date: from (month/year)
to (month/year)</td>
<td width="402" valign="top">January-1973 
January-1976</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="340" valign="top">Degree(s) or Diploma(s)
obtained</td>
<td width="402" valign="top">Doctor in
Science, Polymer Physics</td>
</tr>
</table>
7. Language
Skills : (Mark
1 to 5 for competence)
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="199" valign="top"><div align="center">Language</div></td>
<td width="189" valign="top"><div align="center">Reading</div></td>
<td width="194" valign="top"><div align="center">Speaking</div></td>
<td width="161" valign="top"><div align="center">Writing</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="199" valign="top"><div align="center">Dutch</div></td>
<td width="189" valign="top"><div align="center">5</div></td>
<td width="194" valign="top"><div align="center">5</div></td>
<td width="161" valign="top"><div align="center">5</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="199" valign="top"><div align="center">French</div></td>
<td width="189" valign="top"><div align="center">5</div></td>
<td width="194" valign="top"><div align="center">5</div></td>
<td width="161" valign="top"><div align="center">4</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="199" valign="top"><div align="center">English</div></td>
<td width="189" valign="top"><div align="center">5</div></td>
<td width="194" valign="top"><div align="center">4</div></td>
<td width="161" valign="top"><div align="center">4</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="199" valign="top"><div align="center">German</div></td>
<td width="189" valign="top"><div align="center">4</div></td>
<td width="194" valign="top"><div align="center">3</div></td>
<td width="161" valign="top"><div align="center">2</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="199" valign="top"><div align="center">Spanish</div></td>
<td width="189" valign="top"><div align="center">2</div></td>
<td width="194" valign="top"><div align="center">2</div></td>
<td width="161" valign="top"><div align="center">1</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
8. Other skills : Various
Aspects of Informatics Hardware and Software Management 
9. Last
position : Assistant to the director. Provision of support in the
areas of project management, informatics, information management, public
relations, visitors and contacts. 
10. Key
Qualifications : 25 years of experience with various forms of
Data and Information Management 
11. Hobbies
and Interests : Cognitive science, Piano,
Tennis, Ski, Argentine Tango dancing, Photography 
12. Professional
Experience Record:

<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td width="293">Date: from (month/year)
to (month/year)</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">May 1976
December 1988</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293">Location</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">Petten</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293">Company</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">Joint Research Centre</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293">Position</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">Responsible for
Structural Analysis</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293">Description</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">X-ray diffraction, (Electron) Microscopy, Data Management</td>
</tr>
</table> 
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td width="293" valign="top">Date: from (month/year)
to (month/year)</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">January 1989
May 1991</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293" valign="top">Location</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">Petten</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293" valign="top">Company</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">Joint Research Centre</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293" valign="top">Position</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">High Temperature
Materials Databank Manager</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293" valign="top">Description</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">Database Management</td>
</tr>
</table> 
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td width="293" valign="top">Date: from (month/year)
to (month/year)</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">June 1991
April 1994</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293" valign="top">Location</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">Petten</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293" valign="top">Company</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">Joint Research Centre</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293" valign="top">Position</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">Manager
Infrastructural Informatics</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293" valign="top">Description</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">Software and Hardware
Management</td>
</tr>
</table> 


<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td width="293">Date: from (month/year)
to (month/year)</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">May 1994
June 1998</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293">Location</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">Petten</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293">Company</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">Joint Research Centre</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293">Position</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">Sector Head
responsible for the "European Networks Advanced Information System"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293">Description</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">Information
Management and Technology Transfer</td>
</tr>
</table>
 

<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td width="293">Date: from (month/year)
to (month/year)</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">July 1998
March 2001</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293">Location</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">Petten</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293">Company</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">Joint Research Centre</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293">Position</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">Assistant to the
director</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="293">Description</td>
<td width="455" valign="top">Assisting the Director in managerial representational and secretarial matters. Provision of support in the areas of project management, informatics, information management, public relations, visitors and contacts.</td>
</tr>
</table>
Tasks since
July 1998.
Assistant
to the director. Assisting the Director in managerial representa-tional and
secretarial matters. Provision of support in the areas of project management,
informatics, information management, public relations, visitors and contacts. 
Informatics
Advisor : advising the Director with respect to the Institute's strategy for
Informatics and Knowledge Management. Co-ordinator for the Directorate's
intranet. 
International
Relations Manager : interface between the Institute and Commission Services
regarding Contacts with non-EU countries.
Quality
Assurance Officer for the Directorate Support Group: responsible for the
Quality System of the Director Support Group and for its day to day
implementation and for the coordination, harmonisation and guidance of the
Group's Quality activities
Tasks from
May 1995 till July 1998.
Head
of the sector ENAIS (European Networks Advanced Information System).
Responsible for the development of actions on Technology Transfer as a result
of the networks evaluation and for data evaluation activities in support to the
Structural Component Integrity Unit. Assistance with Data Management and
Presentation. Elaboration of the unit's policy in Informatics. Advice on
hardware, software and networking.
Co-ordination
and supervision of the activities of six colleagues. 
Tasks between
June 1991 and May 1995.
Head
of the Informatics and Electronics Unit, responsible for the infrastructural
service and maintenance in both areas. Involved with purchase policy, hardware
and software implementation and management of central computer facilities and
servers, Novell-, Dec-, Xerox-, Internet- and X.25-networks and electronic
mail. Oracle Database administrator.
Provision
of support concerning electronic data acquisition and control equipment.
Coordination
and supervision of the activities of seven colleagues. Substitute for the ISM.
 Functions from 1989
to 1991
Within
the division "Materials Processing and Engineering" responsible for
"Advanced Materials Information Systems" : in charge of the further
development and exploitation of the "High Temperature Materials
Databank" and "Support to the Services of the Commission (DG
XIII)" in the area of Materials Information. Coordination and supervision
of the work of six staff members. 
Further
extension of hard- en software experience: database management, specification
and supervision of software development for data input and for database query
(PC-based interface); use of Prolog, Unix, X-windows. 
Functions
from 1976 till 1988
In
the frame of the multiannual "High Temperature Materials" research
programme responsible for the activity "Data Processing and
Thermodynamics" and for the laboratories for X-Ray diffraction, Optical
Microscopy and Electron microscopy.
In
charge of data management related to the execution of scientific research in
the area of corrosion and mechanical properties of High Temperture Materials..
Coordination and supervision of the work of two up to ten colleagues. Familiar with the administration of laboraoties and the purchase of complex hard- and software. 
Regular
use of foreign languages in the frame of the multinational character of the JRC. Member of COPAS and of the Comite de Formation.
Software
experience
Evening
courses FORTRAN programming at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1974).
Teleac
course PASCAL (1984).
Selfstudy
BASIC, structured programming, utilisation and management of various operating
systems (VMS, RSX, CP/M, MS-DOS, QDOS, SCO-Unix, Sun-OS en Solaris), data
base management systems (SIR/DBMS, Oracle, Ingres, Infostar, MS-Access,
SQL-server), SQL, editors, textprocessors (Wordperfect, Wordstar, Word),
spreadsheets (DIGICALC, FRAMEWORK, Supercalc, Symphony, Excel),
development of on-screen presentations, reports graphics and tables.
Seminars
and conferences: SIR/DBMS Benutzerkonferenz, Frankfurt 7.‑8. October
1985; An evaluation of UNIX and the UNIX Marketplace, Bonn 9.‑10.
Oktober 1985; Europe Software, Utrecht, May 1984 and May 1985.
More
than ten years of experience with the development of software for data
reduction, crystallographic computations and graphical data processing.
Marketanalysis,
acquisition and installation of a relational Data Base Management system.
Data-analysis, design, management and documentation of schemes, forms, input
and output procedures. Design, implementation and documentation of menu driven
user interfaces. Production data lists, tables and graphs.
Marketanalysis,
acquisition and installation of software for personal computers, workstations
and servers.
Development
and maintenance of internet and intranet sites. Deployment of project
management tools, document management and archiving, time-management and
groupware. Preparation and publication of Powerpoint presentations and slideshows. 
Hardware
experience.
SUN
Sparcstations, DIGITAL computers PDP 8, PDP 11/34, PDP 11/24, VAX,
286-386-486-Pentium PC's, TEKTRONIX intelligent terminals - graphics
workstations, various graphics terminals, plotters and printers.
Interfacing and data-transmission. 
Member
of a working group on the acquisition of a Local Area Network. Market-study,
acquisition and installation of personal computers, Unix workstations, PDP and
VAX computers and peripherals.
Training
& Courses 
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td width="440" valign="top">High temperature corrosion</td>
<td width="130" valign="top">JRC</td>
<td width="118" valign="top">17-04-78</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="440" valign="top">Structure of high-temperature alloys</td>
<td width="130" valign="top">JRC</td>
<td width="118" valign="top">14-08-79</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="440" valign="top">Phase stability in high temperature alloys</td>
<td width="130" valign="top">JRC</td>
<td width="118" valign="top">19-11-79</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="440" valign="top">X-Ray powder difractometry</td>
<td width="130" valign="top">Philips</td>
<td width="118" valign="top">17-03-83</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="440" valign="top">Pascal programming</td>
<td width="130" valign="top">Teleac</td>
<td width="118" valign="top">16-05-84</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="440" valign="top">Oracle relational DBMS, SQL and supertools</td>
<td width="130" valign="top">Oracle</td>
<td width="118" valign="top">15-10-92</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="440" valign="top">Oracle for database administrators 1</td>
<td width="130" valign="top">Oracle</td>
<td width="118" valign="top">22-10-92</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="440" valign="top">Oracle database management in a Unix
envir.</td>
<td width="130" valign="top">Oracle</td>
<td width="118" valign="top">22-10-92</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="440" valign="top">Oracle for database administrators II</td>
<td width="130" valign="top">Oracle</td>
<td width="118" valign="top">14-01-93</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="440" valign="top">C-programming introduction</td>
<td width="130" valign="top">Compu'train</td>
<td width="118" valign="top">25-26/10/95</td>
</tr>
</table>

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Hilde

2026-05-16T15:20:24Z

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Hilde

2026-05-16T15:07:35Z

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Francis:

2026-05-06T18:36:36Z

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2026-05-06T16:15:08Z

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