Leo Kestens earned his Master’s in Applied Physics from Ghent University in 1987 and completed a PhD on crystallographic textures in electrical steels at KU Leuven in 1994. He continued research in steel metallurgy as a postdoc at McGill University and CRM in Belgium. In 1998, he returned to Ghent University to lead a research group on metal science, later chairing Microstructure Control in Metals at TU Delft from 2005. Since 2009, he has headed Ghent’s Metal Science & Technology group while also serving as a part-time guest professor at TU Delft. Prof. Kestens expertise is within: Applied crystallography in Metal Science, Structure-Properties relations, crystallographic textures, solid state transformation in metals and electron microscopy - although mainly steels, also aluminium.  Prof. Kestens was visiting us in connection with some joint activities related to experiments and modeling of recrystallization in aluminium alloys.

During his visit he gave a guest lecture (also available as an online SFI PhysMet webinar) with the title: "Orientation Selection through Dynamic vs Static Recovery in IF steel".