In 1997, Noterdaeme worked as an invited professor at the National Nuclear Research Institute of Nagoya University (Japan). He made a significant contribution to solving physical problems for the international ITER tokamak being established in France. In 1983, he defended his PhD thesis in nuclear engineering “Design of Stellarator with Screw Axis” at Cambridge University.

Noterdaeme is an expert in plasma physics and controlled thermonuclear synthesis, in particular high-speed plasma heating of thermonuclear traps, author and co-author of more than 220 scientific works.

Titles

Member of the jury on doctoral theses at several European universities and University of Canberra (Australia), member of program committees of many conferences in the USA and Europe, representative of Belgium in European Nuclear Education Network (ENEN), member of FUSENET Executive Board, CYCLE Executive Committee, MPIPP Academic Board and other programs and institutions, member of Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and Arts.

Awards

Prize of National Belgian Society of Engineers for outstanding Master’s Diploma in Electromechanics (1977), scholarship of Belgian-American Educational Foundation (1977-1978), Scholarship (1981-1983) and Grant of Belgian Scientific Society (1986), Prize of Postgraduate Board of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1983), Scholarship of National Nuclear Research Institute of Nagoya University (1997).