Overview
Tom Francart is a co-founder of brainphonics, which he started in September 2024, and is based in Leuven. Since December 2024 he has also been a strategic advisor to ALICE App. His stated areas of expertise are creativity and innovation, machine learning, business development, creative problem solving and medtech.
He has been a professor at KU Leuven since October 2022, having held positions there as associate professor from October 2018 to February 2023 and as assistant professor from October 2013 to September 2018. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the same university from 2008 to September 2013, and between 2010 and 2012 he worked as a scientist at The Bionics Institute.
Francart studied electrical engineering at KU Leuven, completing a master's degree in 2004, and stayed on as a PhD researcher from October 2004 to November 2008, obtaining a doctorate in hearing technology. He attended SALCO from 1993 to 2000.
Career history
In the news
- Brainphonics on the national news! We’re proud to share that UZ Leuven is the first hospital in the world to implement the CORGEE objective speech test into clinical use, making it a part of daily patient care. 💬 "Even before a child with hearing loss turns three, we want to be certain that they can hear well with their hearing aid or cochlear implant. These are crucial years for speech and language development, yet this is precisely the age at which children are very difficult to assess using conventional hearing tests,”
- CORGEE wins the HWL2026 Visitors’ Choice Award! What a great way to wrap up Healthcare Week Luxembourg 2026! 🇱🇺 We’re so proud to receive the HWL Visitors’ Choice Award, which recognizes the innovation that received the highest cumulative score from Healthcare Week Luxembourg visitors. The awards were presented by Marc Berna, Vice-President of the Fédération des Hôpitaux Luxembourgeois, and Liners Françoise, Director of Health Technologies at the Ministry of the Economy. Our co-founder & CEO Ben Somers had the pleasure of
- Earlier this week, the CORGEE system was featured in three separate talks at the OMAI conference in Zurich (Objective Measures in Auditory Implants). The presentations highlighted the use of Neural Speech Tracking (NST) as implemented on the CORGEE system as a new clinical technique to objectively assess speech processing. 🦻 Objective outcomes were shown for a broad range of hearing prostheses, from clinical trial data with a large pediatric hearing aid user cohort (Sam Denys) to real-time implementation with pediatric cochlear
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