Background

How could he have escaped? Both of his parents were physicists, so Denis Terwagne appears to have been programmed to follow in their footsteps. He was for a time tempted to try to pursue applied sciences, but he soon came back to the original path. He received his ‘licence’ (graduate) diploma in physical sciences at the ULg in 2006, and soon after began work on a doctoral dissertation that would indeed concern itself with the physics of droplets. He is a born experimenter, and has created films, some of which have been exhibited and awarded, which reveal to the public the strange behaviour of liquid droplets. He was scheduled to defend his dissertation in September 2011, and afterward to begin post-doctoral work once again at MIT, where he will now work on the phenomenon of buckling in elastic surfaces, more precisely on wrinkles that appear on the surface of a solid when it is compressed...like for example the peel of a dried apple, or fingerprints. But this also may apply to flexible screens and electronic circuits.