The Biography of Dr. Filip Keulemans

Filip Keulemans Karma. dentistry

Dr. Filip Keulemans graduated in 2000 from the Free University Brussels (Belgium), he followed a 2 year part-time postgraduate training in restorative dentistry at the same university. 

From 2005 on he conducted research as a PhD-student at the department of Dental Materials Sciences of the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) under supervision of Albert Feilzer and received his PhD in 2010 from the University of Amsterdam with the thesis entitled “Exploring the limitations of fibre-reinforced composite fixed dental prostheses”. During his PhD he started a research collaboration with the FRC research group of Pekka Vallittu (University of Turku, Finland).

From 2010 till 2016 he was responsible for Dental Materials Science and the skillslab restorative dentistry at Ghent University (Belgium).

Today, he works as a Biomimetic Restorative Dentist at a dental clinic (Dentart Flora) in Merelbeke, Belgium). Furthermore, he’s still affiliated to Turku Clinical Biomaterials Centre (TCBC) at the University of Turku (Finland) as research associate. His research interest are mainly Dental Materials Science (characterization, evaluation, and development of fibre-reinforced composites) and Biomimetic Restorative Dentistry.

@Dr. Filip Keulemans