Geert Vercruysse

Ir. Geert Vercruysse graduated in 1992 at the University of Ghent. He started his career at BASF Antwerp as a production manager for the EB/Styrene plant where he became project manager in 1998 and plant manager in 2001. As of 2004 he became plant manager at the Steamcracker, which is also located on the Antwerp site. In October 2012 he took the responsibility of the Butadiene Project as Project Manager. At the moment he is responsible as project coordinator for all Steamcracker related projects at the BASF Antwerp site. Since October 2010 Geert combines his professional activitities with the role of guest professor in Process Safety Engineering at KU Leuven where he teaches “Process Safety of Unit Operations” and and facilitates the course “Competence in Operations”, in cooperation with essenscia.