An articulate, entertaining, and thought-provoking speaker, Jean-luc Doumont is renowned worldwide for his no-nonsense approach and his highly applicable, often life-changing recommendations on a wide range of topics. Over more than 35 years, he has addressed grad students, postdocs, and faculty at over 200 universities in over 30 countries in English, French, Dutch, and Spanish. He is a regular invited speaker at events and conferences and is just as well received by professionals in corporations and research centers, with clients such as Apple, CERN, GSK, Johnson & Johnson, NASA, and Warner Bros, to name a few. An engineer (Louvain) and PhD in applied physics (Stanford), he is the author of Trees, maps, and theorems, a critically acclaimed book on “effective communication for rational minds”.