Nico F. Declercq

Nico Felicien Declercq (Kortrijk (Belgium), 27 December 1975) is a physicist and mechanical engineer. He is an associate professor with the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and Georgia Tech Lorraine in France. He is specialized in ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation of materials, propagation of ultrasonic waves in highly complex materials, in acoustics, in theoretical and experimental linear and nonlinear ultrasonics, acousto-optics, Physics in Medicine and Acoustic Microscopy. He has investigated the acoustics of Chichen Itza and Epidaurus.[7][8][9]

Nico F. Declercq
Born (1975-12-27) December 27, 1975
Kortrijk, Belgium
NationalityBelgium
Other namesDeclercq de Patin,[1] Desclergue[2]
CitizenshipBelgium
Alma mater
Known forstudy of diffraction of acoustic waves and ultrasound waves
Spouse(s)Shirani Olupathage de Silva[3][4][5][6]
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsGeorgia Institute of Technology
Patrons
ThesisThe interaction of complex harmonic elastic waves with periodically corrugated surfaces and with anisotropic viscoelastic and/or piezoelectric layered media (2005)
Doctoral advisorOswald Leroy
Other academic advisorsMack A. Breazeale
Websitedeclercq.gatech.edu

Education, career and awards

Declercq received his BSc and MSc in physics (with option astrophysics) from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1996 and 2000, respectively, and received a PhD in engineering physics from Ghent University in 2005. He worked as a Belgian National Science Foundation (FWO Vlaanderen) postdoctoral fellow with Ghent University before he accepted a faculty position with Georgia Tech in 2006.

Declercq received the International Dennis Gabor Award from the NOVOFER Foundation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on December 21, 2006. He received the ICA Early Career Award "For outstanding contributions to ultrasonics, particularly for studies of propagation and diffraction of acoustic waves" from the International Commission for Acoustics in 2007.[10]

Declercq has been president (2013-2015) of the steering board of the International Congress on Ultrasonics,[11] as well as president of their 2015 congress.[12] He is an associate editor of the journal Acta Acustica united with Acustica,[13] associate editor of the Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation,[14] and founding editor-in-chief of Elsevier's Physics in Medicine.[15] He serves on technical committees of the French Acoustical Society and is the Chair of the Ultrasonics Technical Committee of the European Acoustics Association.[16]

Connections with the Indian sub-continent

In India, Declercq is a respected scientist. Given his background in astrophysics, acoustics, and acousto-optics, he was honored, in 2019, to inaugurate the Aryabhatt Auditorium[17]. The auditorium is named after Indias mathematician-astronomer Aryabhatt. It belongs to the "Prof. Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiya) Institute of Physical Sciences for Study and Research"[18] at the VBSPU University[19] at Jaunpur, which is named after Rajju Bhaiya, a pupil of Noble prize laureate C.V. Raman. In 2008 Declercq wrote a book on ultrasonics, together with his Indian colleagues P.C. Mishra, Rajendra Kumar Singh, and Sri Singh.[20] In Sri Lanka, a country which he visits regularly, he has family bonds and is a frequently invited speaker at the nation’s institutes of higher education. He is also known for his extensive knowledge of the history of India and Sri Lanka.[21]

Coat of arms and lineage
Arms of Nico F. Declercq and his descendants as depicted in the Old Armoral of the Swiss Heraldic Society (SHG)[22]

Declercq's coat of arms consists of the following elements:[23][24]

Motto: Érudit et sage à pied levé (English: educated and wise on a raised foot)

Blazon: on the bordure a compone of 14 pieces gold and azur of which five at the top, an azur shield, having a silver crane with raised foot, membered and beaked in red, holding in the right foot an upright feather in gold, accompanied in chief by two six-pointed stars and at the bottom a sun in gold (original blazon in French: A la bordure componnée de quatorze pièces d’or et d’azur dont cinq au chef, un écusson d’azur, a une grue d’argent sur pied, membrée et becquée de gueules, tenant de la patte dextre une plume d’oie taillée d’or posée en pal, accompagnée en chef de deux étoiles radiée de 6 pointes d’or et en ponte un soleil d'or.)

Crest: A rising silver swan with red beak (original crest in French: un cygne éployé d'argent et becquée de gueules)

Origin: The coat of arms contains colours and elements referring to that of Declercq’s ancestors de Patin (a Flemish family originating in the 14th century in Cambrai, France[25]), with shield placed in front of the original shield (in catalan: Cortado Jaquelado de oro y azur, 2º, de azur, dos palos de oro) of his Spanish paternal ancestors Desclergues (originating in the 16th century in Catalunya, Spain).[26]

Declercq is a patrilineal descendant of Don Pere Desclergue (I), who was born early in the 15th century AD[27][28] at Montblanc in the Conca de Barberà in Catalunya, Spain. Pere Desclergue's grandson Bonaventura Desclergue (II) i Cortés, a notary at Montblanc, had four sons, one of which would stay as heir at Montblanc, while the three others (Jeroni, Antoni (I) and Enric) would go to Flanders as military during the Eighty-year war.[29] Don Jeroni Desclergue[29][30] had been a military since 1587.[29] He stayed in Flanders from 1587-1598 and 1601-1604. In 1587, he became a commander in the infantry company of Lluís de Queralt (a Catalan); while in Flanders he joined the company of Diego de Durango, in the tercio of Luis del Villar.[31] It has been reported[29] that he was involved in military interventions in Holland, Flanders and France, including the Siege of Cambrai of 1595.[32] On March 10 of 1597 he captured, with his company, the city of Amiens and helped further defending it against the French. On January 14 of 1598 he was recognized for his military career by his captain Diego de Durango.[29] Once returned to Barcelona, he went to the service of the Viceroy Duke of Feria. His stay in Barcelona allowed him to attend, with his father Bonaventura Desclergue (II) and his elder brother Francesc Desclergue, in the Cortes of Barcelona of 1599.[33] In 1602 he returned to Flanders in August, where he commanded as Tercio captain of a company of Iñigo de Borja, with which he participated in the Siege of Ostend (August 1601 - September 27 of 1604), where he died, with half of his company, while leading an assault, as a result of the explosion of a mine, on 4 September of 1604, which also wounded his brother Enric Desclergue.[29] Enric was awarded for his military achievements and died in 1631.[29] Antoni appeared in contemporary literature[34] which shows that he went back and forth to Spain, while Jeroni’s grandson, Antoni, was the continuator of the Desclergue bloodline in Flanders through his marriage, in Flanders, with Martina Veracruz in 1656.[2] Bonaventura Desclergues (II)[27] is the one who established the monumental 'Casal dels Desclergue’, or ’la Casa Desclergues’[35] on the Plaza Mayor of Montblanc; Nico Declercq stems from Jeroni Desclergue twelve generations later.[2][36]. DNA analysis shows that the Desclergues of Montblanc originate from Bertrand du Guesclin[37], who was a military commander from Brittany and who supported Henry of Trastámara, the first King of Castile and León in the period 1365-1370.


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References
  1. Declercq de Patin, Nico Felicien (2017). "Editorial Introduction on Proceedings of the 2015 International Congress on Ultrasonics, 2015 ICU Metz". Physics Procedia. 70 (Proceedings of the 2015 International Congress on Ultrasonics, Metz, France): 1–5. doi:10.1016/j.phpro.2015.08.001.
  2. Contijoch, Eduard; Declercq, Nico (2018). "La Història Belga de la Família Desclergue de Montblanc [The Belgian story of the Desclergue family of Montblanc] (in Catalan)". El Foradot-Revista Bimestral de Montblanc. 108: 23–28. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
  3. Biography of Declercq Nico Felicien in Marquis Who's Who in America
  4. Genealogy information on Declercq's website
  5. de Salazar y Castro, Luis (1685). Historia genealogica de la Casa de Silva (English : Genealogical history of the House of de Silva) (1st ed.). Retrieved September 17, 2014.
  6. a review of the battle led by Dom Diogo de Silva at Horana and Uduwara (birthplace of Declercq’s spouse) and the consequent construction of a Portuguese fortress there; in P. E. Pieris, Litt. D., “Ceylon and the Portuguese 1505-1658”, Chapter VII, pp. 132-133, American Ceylon Mission Press, Tellippalai, Ceylon, 1920.
  7. Chao, Tom (5 April 2007). "Mystery of Greek Amphitheater's Amazing Sound Finally Solved". LiveScience. Retrieved 2007-04-05.
  8. Vedantam, Shankar (9 April 2007). "Seating in Ancient Greek Theater Found to Help the Acoustics". Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-04-14.
  9. "No need to shout, Why the acoustics of ancient Greek theatres are so good". The Economist. 29 March 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-14.
  10. "ICA - Early Career Award - Past Recipients". International Commission for Acoustics. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  11. "Members of ICU Board and of Young Scientist Advisory Committee YSAC" (PDF). International Congress on Ultrasonics.
  12. "Welcome message". 2015 International Congress on Ultrasonics.
  13. "Editorial Board". Acta Acustica united with Acustica. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  14. "Editorial Board". Springer’s Journal on Nondestructive Evaluation. Retrieved 2015-05-14.
  15. "Editorial Board". Physics in Medicine. Elsevier. Retrieved 2014-07-22.
  16. "Website of the European Acoustics Association". Retrieved 2018-07-11.
  17. "Picture of the commemoration plaque at the 'Prof. Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiya) Institute of Physical Sciences for Study and Research', Jaunpur, India, of the inauguration of the Aryabhatt Auditorium". Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  18. "Website of the 'Prof. Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiya) Institute of Physical Sciences for Study and Research'". Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  19. "Website of the 'Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University'". Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  20. Mishra, P.C.; Singh, Rajendra Kumar; Singh, Sri; Declercq, Nico F. (2008). Ultrasonics. New Delhi, India: MacMillan Publishers India Ltd. ISBN 978-0230-63689-7.
  21. Memorial Book of the International Conference on Ultrasonics and Materials Science for Advanced Technology 2019 (ICUMSAT-2019). Jaunpur, India. 2019.
  22. Foppoli, Marco (July 2018). "Armor of Prof Nico F. Declercq, Kortrijk, Be" in the Old Armoral. Schweizerische Heraldische Gesellshaft (SHG) (Société Suisse d'Héraldique - Società Svizzera di Araldica).
  23. "Familiewapens". Vlaamse Stam, Tijdschrift voor Familiegeschiedenis (Familiekunde Vlaanderen VZW, Kennisknooppunt voor Familiegeschiedenis). 53 (4): 432. November 2017. ISSN 0774-5486.
  24. family grave of Declercq de Silva, Kerkstraat, 8540 Deerlijk, Belgium
  25. van Hoorebeke, Gustave (1853). Généalogie de la noble famille Gobert: avec un appendice relatif à la famille de Patin [The genealogy of the Gobert family with an appendix on the Patin family] (in French).
  26. "Apellido Desclergues, Pagina de Heraldica, Apellidos, escudos y blasones".
  27. Sanchez Real, Jose (1974). La Casa Desclergues de Montblanc. Tarragona: Casa de Ahorros Provincial.
  28. Alberti, Santiago (1995). "Esquema històric del llinatge Pedrolo". Urtx. Revista Cultural de l'Urgell (in Catalan). 7: 66–68, 71.
  29. Rovira i Gómez, Salvador J. (2005). La baixa noblesa de la Conca de Barberà a l'edat moderna. Monografies, Montblanc, Spain. 12. Montblanc: Centre d’Estudis de la Conca de Barberà. pp. 75–86. ISBN 978-8492179916.
  30. Contijoch, Eduard. "índex onomàstic Personatges històrics". Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert. Retrieved 2019-02-19. DESCLERGUE, Jeroni (militar): VII, 67
  31. van der Hoeven, Marco (1997). Exercise of Arms: Warfare in the Netherlands, 1568-1648. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill.
  32. Clément née Hémery, Madame (1840). Retour de la Domination Espagnole à Cambrai. Siège de 1595, par le Comte de Fuentes, Memorial Journalier de ce qui est arrivé tant dans la Ville qu'au dehors, Manuscrit Inédit d'un moine de l"abbaye St-Sépulchre. Cambrai: Imprimerie et Lithographie de D. Chanson, Libraire.
  33. Constitutions fetes per la S.C.R. Magestat del Rey Don Phelip Degon, Rey de Castella, de Arago&c, en la Primera Cort, Celebra als Cathalans, en la Ciutat de Barcelonaen lo Monastir de S. Francesch en lo Any 1599. Barcelona: casade de Gabriek Graels y Giraldo. 1603.
  34. Plainte catholique des catalans, addressee a Philippe le Grand, Roy des Espagnes ... par le Conseil des Cent de la ville de Barcelone: contenant les motifs de la prise de leurs armes ... p. 129.
  35. "Casa Desclergue, Noble casal situado en el corazón de la villa". Montblanc Medieval. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
  36. Contijoch, Eduard (2018-11-09). "Un edifici oblidat, un home oblidat". La Font de Sant Francesc. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
  37. "FamilytreeDNA project". familytreedna.com. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
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