Geert Hellings received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the KU Leuven, Belgium, in 2007. His master thesis was on III-nitride-based UV detectors for space applications. He obtained the PhD degree from the Electrical Engineering Department (ESAT), Integrated Systems Division (INSYS) at the University of Leuven, Belgium. During his PhD, he worked on the integration of high-mobility channel materials for digital logic applications at imec, Leuven, Belgium. He received a Ph.D. grant from the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation through Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT-Vlaanderen), Brussels, Belgium. He won the 2008 IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest and received the 2011 imec Scientific Excellence Award. He has authored or co-authored approximately 70 technical papers for publication in journals and presentations at conferences and holds various patents.
Kristin De Meyer M.Sc. (1974), PhD (1979) KULeuven. She was holder of an IBM World Trade Postdoctoral Fellowship at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. Currently she is the Director of Doctoral Research in imec. Since October 1986, she has also been a Part-Time Professor with ESAT-INSYS, KUL. She was the Coordinator for IMEC in several EEC projects. Dr. De Meyer is an IIEE fellow, member of the Belgian Federal Council for Science Policy and (co) author of over 500 publications.