Erik Dick was born on December 10, 1950 in Torhout, Belgium. He received his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Ghent University (Belgium) in 1973 and his Ph.D. in Computational Fluid Dynamics from the same university in 1980. From 1973 to 1991, he worked at Ghent University as researcher, senior researcher and head of research in the turbomachinery division of the department of mechanical engineering. He became associate professor of thermal turbomachines and propulsion at the University of Liège (Belgium), in July 1991. He returned to Ghent University in September 1992 as associate professor and became full professor in 1995, with teaching in turbomachines and computational fluid dynamics. He retired in September 2014 and is now part-time individual senior researcher, combined with retirement. His area of research is computational methods for flow problems in mechanical engineering and models for laminar-to-turbulent transition in turbomachinery boundary layer flows.