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Kristel Crombé obtained her Master’s degree in Engineering Physics in 2001 and her PhD degree in 2005 from Ghent University. Her doctoral work focused on spectroscopic methods for diagnosing impurity ion dynamics in plasmas. After obtaining her PhD, she worked at the TEXTOR tokamak at the Institute for Energy and Climate Research, Plasma Physics (FZJ) in Jülich, Germany and the JET tokamak at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, UK. In 2006, she received the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division PhD Research Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis. Crombé's research interests include edge plasma-wave interactions and radio frequency antennas for plasma heating, involving both numerical modeling and experimental aspects. From 2014 to 2019, she led a project at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany. In 2019, she became an Associate Professor at Ghent University’s Department of Applied Physics. Her leadership of the TOMAS project at FZJ Jülich aims to develop wall conditioning techniques for plasmas, facilitating training for students and young researchers in experimental physics. In 2022, she was elected Chair of the Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society.