Michel Debacker

Michel Debacker serves as an Unpaid guest professor in Supporting clinical sciences at UZB (University Hospital Brussels) and practices as a Physician in Emergency Medicine. He is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, Belgium, with his professional address at Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090 Brussels.

Dr. Debacker is a leading researcher in Disaster Medicine with an h-index of 10 and 333 citations according to Scopus. His expertise spans multiple critical areas:

• Disasters and Mass Casualty Incidents (100% research focus)
• Nerve Agent and CBRN Incident Response
• Computer Simulation Modeling for Emergency Response
• Disaster Management Systems and Evaluation Metrics
• Urban Evacuation Procedures for Chemical Incidents

His recent work demonstrates a clear trend toward using computational methods to optimize medical responses to chemical incidents, particularly nerve agent attacks in confined urban spaces like subway stations. This research bridges clinical emergency medicine with disaster preparedness planning.

Dr. Debacker's recognition includes:

• Best Paper award (2022) for collaborative research with Ruben De Rouck, Mehdi Benhassine, and others

He maintains active research collaborations with experts including Ruben De Rouck, Mehdi Benhassine, Ives Hubloue, Filip Van Utterbeeck, and Erwin Dhondt. His work has been presented at the Annual Congress of the Belgian Society of Emergency and Disaster Medicine (BESEDIM) and other international forums, demonstrating consistent scholarly output with 42 total publications spanning from 2003 to the present.

Dr. Debacker's dual role as both clinical practitioner and academic researcher provides valuable real-world perspective to his simulation-based studies on disaster medical response systems.