As soon as the elevator stops, Loaran rushes out. The boy from Amsterdam walks down the long corridor, stops in front of a glass door, stares through the room and rushes inside. Professor Peter Baltus is not accustomed to greeting his students with such enthusiasm, but Laurent is not an ordinary student.

The boy, who lived in Belgium and the Netherlands, is about to take the final exams for a bachelor's degree from Eindhoven University of Technology, and being extraordinary because he is nine years old. Laurent has been studying electrical engineering at this famous university in the south-east of the Netherlands since the summer of 2018, and there is no doubt that he continues to study with enthusiasm, happiness and brilliance. The brilliant child with a 145-degree intelligence scale, some call it a genius or child prodigy.

Laurent wants to learn a lot of knowledge, mainly about technology and natural sciences, and admits that he does not enjoy knowledge related to cultural fields, for example, he is not keen to attend language lessons. And novels, and I don't like reading them very much. ”

The boy's genius turned his parents' life upside down, says his father, Alexander, who explains: “We are driving an electric car now instead of our old diesel-powered car. This is because the son is interested in protecting the environment. Moreover, the parents no longer travel by plane to spend their vacation in their home in Spain, as before. The boy can really learn astonishingly fast. Within one week he was able to deal with how much information normally takes eight weeks to absorb. He gets a special education at the university, then brings the teaching materials home with him to study on his own. .

"It is an adventure, but it is a great deal of fun," says Professor Baltus of the boy's study. "He is used to teaching a lot of very attentive students."

Sometimes the professor forgets that his pupil is still a child, and recalls that at one point the boy could not pull a cable in the lab. “He is not strong enough,” he said. In preparation for his final exam, Laurent is developing a microchip to measure reactions in the human brain, an area he says he would like to do more research on. "I want to invent something that can prolong human life, like artificial organs," , For example". To take care of Laurent's educational career, his parents abandoned their dentists' work, and they travel from Amsterdam to Eindhoven with him three times a week on a two-hour car journey. Necessary in learning. In addition to his fiery mind, Laurent is a normal 9-year-old boy, enjoying playing with his dogs Sam Me and Jo and watching movies on Netflix.

• In preparation for his final exam, Laurent develops through the graduation project a microchip to measure reactions in the human brain.