Gauthier "Walter" Belhomme
Why did you choose Northwestern?
The reputation and the taught values that made very valuable the exchange program with my French engineering school.
How would you describe your research and/or work to a non-academic audience? What was it then and/or what it is now?
How to transform technical knowledge and know-how into an ecological valuable solution against industrial pollution.
Tell us who or what inspired your research and/or work.
Great teaching mentors with enthusiasm, charisma, and ideas that I have the chance to transform into enriching research topics.
What are you most proud of in your career to date?
What I do today, which is to sustainably develop a startup which values and activities are a daily implementation of the social, ecological, and humanitarian benefits. I have spent my entire professional consulting life advising my clients, empowering their valuable staff rather than their products or services.
Tell us about a current achievement or something you're working on that excites you.
Same as described above: I have found a company whose mission is to tackle industrial pollution by transforming plastic waste into ecolumbers while empowering population in social difficulty and offering housing solutions to disaster-impacted habitants.
What advice would you give your younger self or someone considering a similar path?
Learn to listen to others, either those who know more as well as those who feel different, so you can share your common values to make other people important while you personally grow from their contact.