Martine Wevers (born 1958), Engineer in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering KU Leuven 1981, PhD in Science and Engineering KU Leuven 1987, is full professor at the KU Leuven and coordinating the research group “Materials performance and Nondestructive Evaluation” at the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering. She is chair of the Department of Materials Engineering. She is responsible for the nondestructive research (quality control, defect detection, development of new NDT techniques and data analysis procedures) and the research on the mechanical behavior of materials (fracture mechanics and fatigue). She is specialized in the in-situ or on-line damage monitoring techniques (acoustic emission, optical fibers and sensors for structural health monitoring) and the evaluation of microstructural damage in materials using X-ray computed tomography.