Dr Karel Van Bockstal obtained his PhD (in mathematical engineering) in 2015 at Ghent University, Belgium, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher (Ghent Analysis & PDE Center) at the Department of Mathematics: Analysis, Logicand Discrete Mathematics, Ghent University. His area of specialisation is related to mathematical analysis, evolutionary partial differential equations and the development of numerical algorithms and their implementation. This research focus concerns direct and inverse problems with applications in heat transfer, elasticity, electromagnetism and thermo-elasticity. He authors 37 publications included in ISI Web of Science. In addition, he was awarded the EAIP Young Scientist Award of the 8th International Conference "Inverse Problems: Modelling and Simulation", May 2016.