Tom Hendrix

Lead Engineer Process at BASF

Belgium

About

Experienced physicist, engineer, and manager with a demonstrated history of working in the nuclear industry. Skilled in Process Simulation, I&C, Research and Development, plant design, and Data Analysis. Strong engineering professional with a PhD from KU Leuven and a Masters Degree in physics.

Experience

  • BASF (Full-time · 4 yrs 1 mo)
    • Ingénieur Travaux Neufs
      Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    • Project Manager and Lead Engineer Process
      Jun 2022 - Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Dual role combining Project Management and Lead Engineer Process responsibilities for multiple production facilities at the BASF Antwerp site in Belgium.

  • TRACTEBEL (6 yrs 10 mos)
    • Team Manager Process Simulation
      Feb 2020 - Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    • Project Manager
      Nov 2018 - Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    • Junior Design Engineer (Simulation)
      Sep 2015 - Nov 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics at KU Leuven
    Sep 2011 - Sep 2015 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    PhD research concerning Computational Fluid Dynamics applied to dust loaded gasses. This was done by performing and developing multi-fluid (magneto)hydrodynamical numerical simulations with the MPI-AMRVAC code. For my research I worked on four of the fastest supercomputers worldwide. I was a speaker at several national and international conferences with results published in several papers.