Nick Michiels received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium, in 2016. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering Technology at Hasselt University and a member of the Digital Future Lab (DFL), where he is a lead researcher in the Visual Computing group. His work bridges fundamental research and industrial application, in collaboration with Flanders Make. His current research interests include computer vision, computer graphics, and image processing, with a focus on image-based rendering, extended reality (XR), sim2real transfer, and relighting.