Ben Bellekens, CEO and co-founder of CrowdScan, received his Ph.D in 2018 at the faculty of applied science on the topic of realistic methods for simulating radio propagation. Currently, he’s a post-doc researcher and teaching assistant with a strong focus on telecommunication, localization, and cloud computing. He has a practical point of view about the translation of academic research towards product commercialization by introducing his interest and experience in business development, project management and applying research in a user-centric approach.