Otti D'Huys (O.)

I completed my whole education that the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). In 2007 I graduated as licentiate in physics; in the framework of my master thesis I studied the dynamics of delay-coupled lasers, under guidance of Jan Danckaert and Ingo Fischer at the Applied Physics Research Group.  I conducted my PhD in the same group, as a fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen).  My PhD research concentrated on synchronisation in small networks of delay-coupled generic oscillators and their relation to semiconductor lasers.

After receiving my PhD in 2011, I joined the computational physics group of Wolfgang Kinzel at the University of Würzburg (Germany) as a postdoc. There I investigated fundamental properties of delayed chaotic systems, and the interplay of noise and delay. As Wolfgang Kinzel retired in 2014, I moved to the United States for a second postdoc. In the group of Daniel Gauthier at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) I worked on dynamics and information processing in experimental time-delay electronic networks.

From September 2016- August 2020 I was a lecturer (assistent professor) at Aston University, Birmingham UK. During those years my research concentrated on theoretical stochastic effects in delayed networks, and, in the framework of a MSCA project, I returned  to optics and started working on a neuromorphic photonics. I also professionalized as a university teacher.

In September 2020 I joined Maastricht University as a lecturer at the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering.