See Project Website

Fact sheet at EU Cordis website for PROMINENT

See also the interview (NL) or at interview (EN)

Newsflash on occasion of Solar Orbiter launch: Five things we are going to learn from Europe's Solar Orbiter mission

Newsflash on First Self-Consistent Model of a Solar Flare: KU Leuven researchers shed new light on solar flares

ROB TV coverage at: TV interview (NL)

VSC Success Story: Using flemish supercomputer architectures to model our solar atmosphere

Launching: LEGOLAS, See the homepage of LEGOLAS, thanks to N. Claes and J. De Jonghe, or the ArXiv paper

Personal Homepage: RONY KEPPENS

Since 1-1-2006, I (re)joined the Centre for mathematical Plasma Astrophysics at the Mathematics Department of the KU Leuven as `hoogleraar' and later `gewoon hoogleraar' (Full professor). I was, during 15 years, affiliated with the FOM Institute Rijnhuizen (currently named DIFFER), where I started as postdoc in 1996, to eventually become Scientific Project Leader of the Numerical Plasma Dynamics activity from 1-1-2001 till end 2005. From July 1st 2005 till June 30 2010, I was affiliated with the Astronomical Institute of Utrecht University (which was after 370 years of history closed end 2011), as `bijzonder hoogleraar in de Theoretische Plasmafysica'. Till 2006-2007, I was teaching a course `Magnetohydrodynamics of Astrophysical Plasmas' in the Master programme of astrophysics at Utrecht, continuing this theoretically oriented course in the tradition of Prof. Emeritus Hans Goedbloed. I have held an Astronome position at Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, was Concurrent Professor at Nanjing University, PR China (2013-2016), and visiting researcher at Yunnan University, Kunming, PR China (Oct-Nov 2018). During my sabbatical year (Sept 2018-Aug 2019) I enjoyed the hospitality of Nanjing University (School of Astronomy and Space Science) and Purple Mountain Observatory (Nanjing, PR China).

Currently at KU Leuven, I teach in the bachelor and master program for mathematics and physics & astronomy at KU Leuven. I offer a Master course `Computational Methods for Astrophysical Applications', to either Applied Mathematics Master students or Master in Astronomy or Master of Science in Mathematical Engineering students. My research centers on both computational and analytical magnetofluid-dynamics, with an eye towards astrophysically relevant applications (stellar winds, astrophysical jets, accretion disk dynamics, solar prominences).

Research Keywords: MHD spectroscopy, (parallel) CMFD simulations, Solar atmosphere and corona, Prominence physics, computational MHD, transonic MHD, relativistic (M)HD computations, Numerical algorithms, Adaptive Mesh Refinement