IFAI Expo 2018

Dr. Emiel DenHartog
NCSU, College of Textiles



Prof. Emiel DenHartog has a Masters degree in experimental physics from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands and Ph.D. in medical physics from the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. After obtaining his Ph.D. he went to work for more than 15 years in defense research on evaluation and innovation of military protective clothing systems. Since 2013 he has worked at the Textile Protection And Comfort Center (TPACC) at North Carolina State University on the interaction between clothing and the human body to optimize protection, performance and comfort. The main focus of his research is on using and developing test and evaluation methods for functional textiles to demonstrate and quantify protection, performance and comfort of clothing and related textile products that interact with the body.

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