Walter joined Sirris in 2000 as an expert in surface engineering and coatings. Walter is mainly involved in setting up projects with industrial companies in different fields of surface technology: wear resistant and tribological coatings on tools and components, anti-stick surfaces in polymer and glass processing, coatings with optical or electrical functions, heat resistant and insulating coatings, and many other functional coatings.
Walter obtained a PhD in Physics at the University of Leuven, where he developed a new PVD technique for thin films of amoirphous silicon. He gained further experience in the properties and application of PVD and CVD coatings, while working on tribological coatings at Hasselt University.
Walter Lauwerens
Senior Project Manager Smart Coating