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Sven Van Loo obtained his MSc degree in Mathematics in 1999 and completed his PhD in Astrophysics in 2005 at KU Leuven, Belgium. His PhD research was conducted at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, where he modeled radio emissions from single O-stars and their effects in high-mass binary star systems. After receiving his doctorate, he worked as a postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Leeds (UK) from 2005 to 2010, focusing on wave shock processes in multifluid hydromagnetic media relevant to star formation and dusty plasmas. He continued his research as a UF theory postdoctoral fellow at the University of Florida (US) from 2010 to 2011, investigating the impact of magnetic fields on the formation and evolution of molecular clouds in galactic discs. In 2011, he was awarded a Submillimeter Array Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (US) where he examined magneto-gravitational instabilities that produce filamentary molecular clouds and their dense cores. In 2014, Sven became a lecturer in Astrophysical Computational Flows at the University of Leeds, where he focused on nonlinear wave and shock processes in multicomponent hydromagnetic flows and developed numerical codes to study related problems. His work extends to astrophysics and carbon-sequestration, involving numerical simulations of multiphase CO2 outflows and studies related to fusion devices. In September 2022, Sven joined the Department of Applied Physics at UGent as an assistant professor, where his research is centered on the development of numerical kinetic codes for applications in laser-plasma interactions and magnetically-confined fusion plasmas as well as astrophysical plasmas.