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Hendrik Ferdinande (Belgian, 1940) studied engineering physics (1963) at Universiteit Gent, Belgium. He obtained an MSc degree from Stanford University, Stanford (US) in 1964 and was conferred an engineering physics doctor’s degree in 1973 at Universiteit Gent. From 1964 he performed research in experimental low- and medium-energy nuclear physics in Ghent (BE). During the academic year 1973/74 he was NATO visiting researcher at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa (CA). Since 1991 he is assistant and associate professor at the Faculty of Sciences and the Faculty of Engineering in Universiteit Gent. He retired from Universiteit Gent in October 2005.

From 1996 till 2003 he was the chair of the Erasmus /Socrates Thematic Network Project EUPEN (European Physics Education Network) linking physics departments in European countries. He co-ordinated also the three-year Socrates Thematic Network Project (2005/2008), called STEPS (Stakeholders Tune European Physics Studies). He has been advisor of the STEPS TWO (2008/11) project and is presently (2013/16) advisor to the HOPE (Horizons in Physics Education) network. He has been active, both as expert in the Physics Area and as member of the Management Committee in the ‘Tuning educational structures in Europe’ project since the start in 2000. He contributed to initiatives of Tuning in Russia, Latin America (CL, CO, GT, PE) and Georgia.

He has been evaluator at the DAAD ‘Academic Evaluation Centre’ (APS) Beijing (CN) (2007/13) (screening of Chinese students going to study in Flanders (BE) or Germany). He was guest professor at the ‘Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education’ at Hokkaido University, Sapporo (JP) (Summer 2012).

In 2002 he received the doctor honoris causa degree from the Universitatea din Oradea in Oradea (RO). Hendrik Ferdinande is fellow of the Institute of Physics, London (UK) and fellow of the World Innovation Foundation. He was member of the Executive Committee (2008/12) of the European Physical Society (EPS) and member of the Physics Education Division of EPS.