Management Team


Our Team


Julien Cabay

Julien Cabay

Legal aspects - Research - Teaching

Julien is the co-creator and current director of JurisLab. As full professor holding the Chair of Law of Intellectual Creations and Innovations at the Faculty of Law of ULB, he is profoundly rethinking teaching and research in these fields using Fab Lab resources and methods. Julien is also a musician and associate professor/researcher in other universities in Belgium and abroad.


Laurent Catoire

Laurent Catoire

HR - Mediation - Governance

A mechanical and electrical engineer, he has been a member of the Automatic Control and System Analysis Service at ULB since 1997. Since 2016, he also serves as technical director at the Brussels Polytechnic School. He is mainly interested in the design and control of pilot processes for teaching and research purposes and project-based learning.


Mélanie Chillaud

Mélanie Chillaud

Fab Lab Coordinator - Community - Safety - Conviviality

New coordinator of Fab Lab ULB, Mélanie is a versatile person who loves learning. She has been a materials chemistry engineer, project manager in the pharmaceutical sector, and textile designer-artist. During the latter experience, she came to prototype innovative textiles at the ULB Fab Lab. Today, she wants to put her knowledge and experience at the service of others: teaching them to question, explore, and collaborate.


Axel Cornu

Axel Cornu

Technician - Machine maintenance - Accounting

Electronics specialist, specialized in experimental physics and digital fabrication. Technician at Frugal Lab, Fab Lab ULB, and the Physics Experimentarium.

Fab Academy Alumni 2019


Alain Delchambre

Alain Delchambre

Infrastructure


Nicolas De Coster

Nicolas De Coster

Fab Academy Instructor - International Network - Communication / Website

Physicist at the Royal Belgian Meteorological Institute, Nicolas enjoys combining theory and practice. Liaison for the international Fab Labs network, he has participated in Fab Academy for several years as an instructor. He is also the developer of our website deployment system.

Fab Academy Alumni 2018


Chloé Smeekens

Chloé Smeekens

Educational advice - Inclusion


Denis Terwagne

Denis Terwagne

Teaching - Research - Governance

Human and experimental physicist. He combines knowledge and skills, collective intelligence and digital capabilities to better observe, understand, imagine and act, with frugality, on the world around us. Professor in the Faculty of Sciences, he is the founder of Frugal Lab and co-founder of STEAM Lab at Fab Lab ULB.

Fab Academy Alumni 2017


Patrick Dezséri

Patrick Dezséri

Fab Manager

Biogineer in Chemistry and Bio-industries from the School of Bioengineering of Brussels ULB.

Fab Academy Alumni 2025