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Dirk Jozef Alfons Fransaer (born 9 August 1958 in Dendermonde) [1] is a Belgian engineer and director of the Flemish Institute for Technological Research in Mol, Belgium.
He graduated as a civil engineer at the University of Ghent (Ghent) in 1980 and as biomedical engineer at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven) in 1985.
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