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Researcher<\/span><\/h4>\n

Robotics & Autonomous Systems,
Royal Military Academy<\/p>\n

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Avenue De La Renaissance 30, 1000 Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n

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Email<\/strong>: Xavier.Depreytere@mil.be<\/a><\/p>\n

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Xavier Depreytere is a counter-UAS researcher at the Robotics and Autonomous Systems unit of the Department of Mechanics of the Belgian Royal Military Academy. His role focuses on supporting the implementation of field trials within the framework of the EU-funded\u00a0COURAGEOUS\u00b2 project<\/a>, contributing to the planning, coordination and execution of large-scale counter-UAS test campaigns.<\/div>\n
Prior to joining the Belgian Royal Military Academy, Xavier gained initial industrial experience in the food industry as an automation project engineer at the Kellogg Company. He then joined the NGO\u00a0Handicap International \u2013 Humanity and Inclusion<\/a>\u00a0in 2018 as an Innovation Project Manager. He led the design and strategic development of the Odyssey2025 project, which aims to deploy small drones, multi-sensor payloads including thermal, multispectral and RGB sensors, and GIS tools to facilitate and accelerate land release operations. Within this initiative, he supervised the implementation of trials in real-world conditions across more than 300 hazardous areas in countries such as Chad, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine. These activities contributed to major breakthroughs in the Humanitarian Mine Action sector and supported the identification of more than 10,000 landmines and other explosive remnants of war.<\/div>\n
Xavier holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering within the field of Biosystems Engineering, obtained in 2014 from the\u00a0Facult\u00e9 Polytechnique de Mons<\/a>, University of Mons, Belgium.<\/div>\n

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