Analog IC design ranging from low frequencies to the mm-wave frequency range (30-300 GHz)
Design of CMOS radio transceivers, with emphasis on mm-wave applications
Evaluation of analog/RF performance of advanced CMOS technologies
Pioneer in analog/RF design using FinFETs
Analysis of nonlinear distortion in analog integrated circuits

• Diploma in Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 1986.


• PhD. in Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 1996.


• Researcher at imec, Belgium, 1996 – today: imec Fellow since July 2020


• Part-time lecturer at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, department ETRO since 2000.




• Today: part-time “hoogleraar” at ETRO, teaching Analog Electronics at the Master’s level


• Promoter of 21 past PhDs and 15 ongoing PhDs




• Since 2012 member of the program committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), which is the flagship conference in the field of Integrated Circuit design. Chair of the RF subcommittee of ISSCC since 2016. Vice program chair for ISSCC 2022.


• Member of the technical program committee of the European Solid-State Circuits Conference from 2007 to 2020.


• Past associate editor of the IEEE Transactions of Circuits and Systems – Part I


• More than 300 publications in conferences, journals, …


• Author of five books, among which “Distortion analysis of Analog Integrated Circuits”, which is considered as a standard work in the field of analog IC design


• Editor of one book.