Kristiaan Neyts is full professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Displays and Optoelectronics Technologies (SKLADT) since September 2023. He received a degree in physics engineering in 1987, a doctoral degree in engineering in 1992 at Ghent University. For his master thesis he received the Barco Award and for his PhD the AIG Award at UGent. After post-docs at UC Berkeley and Ghent University, he became assistant professor in 2000 and full senior professor in 2012. He is co-author of over 300 papers in the Web of Science, promotor or co-promotor of 31 completed PhDs and co-inventor of 10 granted patents. He founded the Liquid Crystals and Photonics Group (LCP) at UGent which has 5 professors, 3 post-docs and 15 PhD students. He was co-founder of the Center for Nano- and Bio-Photonics, a UGent sponsored Multi-disciplinary Research Network. He was conference chair of international conferences: EL2002, WLCP 2006, ELOPTO2012, Eurodisplay 2015, Eurodisplay 2019. Recently the group has received three Facebook Reality Labs Liquid Crystal research awards: Diamond award for Inge Nys in 2020, Gold award for Migle Stebryte in 2021, and Gold award for Brecht Berteloot in 2022.