Vucinic Dean

“Prof. Dr. Ir. Dean Vučinić joined Vesalius College (VeCo) in 2017, which is affiliated to the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) as Adjunct Professor in Global Business and Entrepreneurship/Bachelors and Masters Preparatory Programmes. He has been affiliated to VUB since 1988. Before VeCo, he was guest professor and senior research scientist at the VUB Faculty of Engineering Sciences (IR) in 2 departments: Mechanical Engineering (MECH) and Electronics & Informatics (ETRO).
He is also the visiting Full Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology (FERIT), University of Osijek, Croatia, at the department of Software Engineering/Chair of Visual Computing.
His work is mostly related to Research and Development (R&D) projects, and his interest covers Scientific Visualization, Modelling and Simulation, Optimization methodologies and techniques.
His Ph.D. became a book, as in the early 90’s he developed “CFView – Computational Field Visualization System”, the first-time-ever interactive visualization software for numerical simulations, fully based on the object-oriented technology. VUB spin-off NUMECA is still using his software after more than 20 years, more than 20 VUB PhD-s applied CFView in their visualization and data analysis tasks.
During +30 years at VUB, he successfully participated in +20 European Commission R&D projects (FP, H2020, EUREKA/ITEA and Tempus/Erasmus+).
He is author of more than 70 scientific papers in international reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and in addition, author of several book chapters.
He is member of International Boards of Journals and Conferences, acting as chair, session organizer, reviewer and editor.
He is promoting and encouraging international cooperation in research and development, and education; realised initiatives with USA, Canada, Russia, Brazil, India, Egypt and Japan, among others.
He is European Commission expert in H2020 and member of international organizations: AIAA, IEEE, ACM, SAE & ASME.”