| Biographies
of the lecturers
Bernhard
Boser
Prof. Bernhard E. Boser received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering
from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1984 and the M.S. and
Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1985 and 1988. From 1988 he was a Member
of Technical Staff in the Adaptive Systems Department at AT&T Bell
Laboratories. In 1992 he joined the faculty in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley
where he also serves as a Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator
Center. Dr. Boser's research is in the area of analog and mixed signal
circuits, with special emphasis on analog-digital interface circuits and
micromechanical sensors and actuators. He has served on the program committees
of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the Transducers
Conference, the VLSI Symposium, and the Sensor and Actuator Workshop.
He was the Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and is currently
the Chair of the Publications Committee of the Solid-State Circuits Society.
Dr. Boser is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is the Chief Scientist of SiTime,
a fabless semiconductor company he co-founded in 2004. In 2005/06 he was
a visiting professon at the Institute of Micro- and Nanosystems at the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
Zu-Yao
Chang
Zu-yao Chang received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from
the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 2003. Since
2003 he has been a staff member of the Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory
of Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, doing research
on impedance-measurement systems and smart sensor systems.
Paddy
French
Paddy French received his B.Sc. in mathematics and M.Sc. in electronics
from Southampton University, UK, in 1981 and 1982, respectively. In 1986
he obtained his Ph.D., also from Southampton University, which was a study
of the piezoresistive effect in polysilicon. After 18 months as a post-doc
at Delft University, The Netherlands, he moved to Japan in 1988. For 3
years he worked on sensors for automotives at Central Engineering Laboratories
of Nissan Motor Company. He returned to Delft University in May 1991 were
he has been involved in research on micromachining and process optimization
related to sensors. Since 2002 he is chairing the Laboratory for Electronic
Instrumentation. In 1999 he was awarded the Anthony van Leeuwenhoek chair.
He received the title award of “Simon Stevin Meester” from
the Dutch Technology Foundation.
Ali
Heidary
Ali Heidary received his BSc and MSc on electronics and microelectronics
in 1991 and 1995 respectively. Then he joined the Guilan university as
an academic staffmember. During this period he taught courses on Electronics,
Solid State Physics and Communication Circuits. In November 2004 he joined
the Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory of TUDelft, The Netherlands
as a PhD student to work on mixed-mode smart sensor interfaces.
Johan
Huijsing
Johan H. Huijsing was born in Bandung, Indonesia, on May 21, 1938. He
received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of
Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 1969, and his Ph.D. from the same
University in 1981 for work on operational amplifiers. Since 1969 he has
been a member of the Research and Teaching Staff of the Electronic Instrumentation
Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Delft University of
Technology, where he became a full Professor of Electronic Instrumentation
since 1990, and professor-emeritus since 2003. He teaches courses on Electrical
Measurement Techniques, Electronic Instrumentation, Operational Amplifiers
and Analog-to-digital Converters. His field of research is Analog Circuit
Design (operational amplifiers, analog multipliers, etc.) and Integrated
Smart Sensors. He is fellow of IEEE. He received the title award of “Simon
Stevin Meester” from the Dutch Technology Foundation.
Paul
de Jong
Paul C. de Jong was born in Nieuwkoop, The Netherlands, on May 13, 1967.
He received the ingenieurs (M.Sc.) degree in electrical engineering from
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 1990, and the
PhD degree from the same university in 1998. In 1990 he joined Schlumberger,
Clamart, France and Houston, TX, USA, where he was involved with high-temperature
electronics for down-hole applications. In 1992 he joined the Laboratory
of Electronics, Delft University of Technology, for a research project
in high-temperature sensor electronics. In 1998 he joined TNO, The Hague,
The Netherlands, working and leading several mechatronics projects. In
2001 he joined Xensor Integration, Delft, The Netherlands where he was
involved in research and development of integrated smart sensor systems.
Since 2004, he is employed by ECN where he is groupleader of solar energy
(PV) module technology.
Pavel
Kejik
Pavel Kejik was born in the Czech Republic in 1971. He received the diploma
degree in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in 1999 at the Czech Technical University
of Prague. In 1999, he joined the Institute of Microelectronics and Microsystems
at the EPFL to work on Institute's circuit design and testing. His research
interests include fluxgate magnetometry and micro-Hall sensors combined
with mixed-signal IC design and low-noise circuit design for industrial
applications.
Xiujun
Li
Xiujun Li was born in Tianjin, China on February 19, 1963. He received
his B.Sc. in physics and M.Sc. in electrical engineering from Nankai University,
Tianjin, China in 1983 and 1986, respectively. In 1997, he received his
Ph.D. degree from Department of Electrical Engineering, Delft University
of Technology, The Netherlands. Since September 1996, he has been employed
as assistance researcher at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics
and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, where he was involved
in research and the development of smart capacitive sensors and low-cost
interfaces for smart sensors. Since 1997 he worked in part time for SMARTEC
B.V. on smart temperature sensors and smart sensor interfaces. In 2002
he joined Bradford engineering B.V., Heerle, The Netherlands, where is
performs research and development of instruments for the Space Industry.
Kofi
Makinwa
Kofi A. A. Makinwa (M’97–SM’05) received the B.Sc. and
M.Sc. degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, the M.E.E.
degree from Philips International Institute, Eindhoven, The Netherlands,
and the Ph.D. degree from Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
for his thesis on electrothermal sigma-delta modulators.
From 1989 to 1999, he was a research scientist at Philips Research Laboratories,
where he designed sensor systems for interactive displays, and analog
front-ends for optical and magnetic recording systems. In 1999, he joined
Delft University of Technology, where he is currently an Associate Professor
at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics.
He holds nine U.S. patents, has authored or co-authored over 40 technical
papers, and has given tutorials at the Eurosensors and the IEEE Sensors
conferences. His main research interests are in the design of precision
analog circuitry, sigma-delta modulators and sensor interfaces. Dr. Makinwa
is on the program committees of several international conferences, among
which are the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)
and the International Solid-state Sensors and Actuators Conference (Transducers).
In 2005, he received the Veni and Simon Stevin Gezel awards from the Dutch
Technology Foundation (STW), and was a co-recipient of the ISSCC 2005
Jack Kilby award.
Maureen
Meekel
Maureen was born in Haarlem, the Netherlands on January 14, 1973. She
received her B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the “Hogeschool
Haarlem”, in Haarlem the Netherlands in 1997.
Since September 1997 she is a research assistant in the group of Kofi
Makinwa of the Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory at the department
of Electrical Engineering of the Delft University of Technology, Delft,
the Netherlands.
Gerard
Meijer
Gerard C.M. Meijer was born in Wateringen, The Netherlands, on June 28,
1945. He received the ingenieurs (M.S.) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
engineering from the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands,
in 1972 and 1982, respectively. Since 1972 he has been a member of the
Research and Teaching staff of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
Delft University of Technology, where he was engaged in research and teaching
on analog ICs and smart sensor systems. Since 2001 he is a full professor
of the Laboratory of Electronic Instrumentation of the same university.
In 1984 and part-time during 1985-1987, he was seconded to the Delft Instruments
Company in Delft, where he was involved in the development of industrial
level gauges and temperature
transducers. In 1996 he co-founded the company SensArt, where he is a
consultant in the field of sensor systems. He received the title award
of “Simon Stevin Meester” from the Dutch Technology Foundation.
Michiel
Pertijs
Michiel A. P. Pertijs was born in Roosendaal, The Netherlands, on May
31, 1977. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering
(both cum laude) from Delft University Technology in 2000 and 2005, respectively.
Since August 2005, he is working as a circuit design engineer for National
Semiconductor in Delft, The Netherlands.
From 2000 to 2005, he worked as a research assistant at the Electronic
Instrumentation Laboratory of Delft University of Technology, on the subject
of high-accuracy CMOS smart temperature sensors. In co-operation with
Philips Semiconductors, his research has been applied in commercial temperature
sensors, and has resulted in four patent applications. At Delft University,
he has been involved in various teaching activities.
Dr. Pertijs received the ISSCC 2005 Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student
Paper. His research interests include analog and mixed-signal electronics
and smart sensors.
Frank
Riedijk
Frank R. Riedijk was born in Delft, The Netherlands, on March 23, 1965.
He received his M.Sc Degree in 1988 from the Delft University of Technology
and the Ph.D degree from the same university in 1993 for work on smart
sensors with bus interface. In 1997 he founded the company smart sensor
devices, now merged into Xensor Integration, where he is active in high
tech sensor projects, such as integrated fingerprint sensors for portable
telephones and space data acquisition ASICS. In these fields he is the
holder of 5 patents.
Dafina
Tanase
Dafina Tanase received her Mechanical Engineering Degree from Transylvania
University Brasov, Romania, in 1995 and her MSc. Degree in Applied Computer
Science from Free University, Brussels, in 1998. In 2003 she received
her Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology on the development of a
magnetic-based navigation system for endovascular interventions. Currently,
she is working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Electronic Instrumentation
laboratory at TU Delft on the development of sensor systems for medical
applications.
Albert
Theuwissen
Albert J.P. Theuwissen, since 1976 involved in solid-state imaging, received
the degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D degree from the Catholic
University of Leuven (Belgium) in 1977 and 1983. In 1983, he joined Philips
Research Laboratories in Eindhoven (the Netherlands), as a member of the
scientific staff. In 1991 he became Department Head of the division Imaging
Devices, including CCD as well as CMOS solid-state imaging activities.
On April 1st 2002, Philips transferred its professional imaging activity
to DALSA, where prof. dr. Theuwissen is now the Chief Scientist.
In 2007, he retired from DALSA and started his own company, called Harvest
Imaging, focusing on teaching, coaching and training of people involved
in digital imaging.
He acted as general chairman of the 1997 IEEE International Workshop on
Charge-Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors. He is member of the
Steering Committee of the aforementioned workshop and founder of the Walter
Kosonocky Award, which highlights the best paper in the field of solid-state
image sensors. Since 1999 he is a member of the technical committee of
the ISSCC and in 1998 he became an IEEE distinguished lecturer.
In 1995, he authored a textbook "Solid-State Imaging with Charge-Coupled
Devices". He is member of editorial board of the magazine "Photonics
Spectra", an IEEE Fellow and member of SPIE.
In March 2001, he became part-time professor at the Delft University of
Technology, the Netherlands
Roland
Thewes
Roland Thewes was born in Marl, Germany, in 1962. He received the Dipl.-Ing.
and Dr.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Dortmund,
Germany, in 1990 and 1995, respectively. Since 1994 he has been with the
Research Labs of Siemens AG and Infineon Technologies, where he was active
in the design of non-volatile memories and in the field of reliability
and yield of analog CMOS circuits. From 1997-1999, he managed projects
in the fields of design for manufacturability, reliability, analog device
performance, and analog circuit design. Since 2000, he has been responsible
for the Lab on Mixed-Signal Circuits of Corporate Research of Infineon
Technologies and for the development of CMOS-based biosensors. He has
authored or co-authored more than 100 publications, gives lectures at
the University of Ulm, and serves as a member of the technical program
committees of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
of the International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM), and of the European
Solid State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC).
Tim
Tiek
Tim received his M.Sc degree from the University Twente, The Netherlands.
Since 5 years Tim is working with Sensata in the “growth group”,
where he is involved in the development of new products. For the greater
part he operates on electronics developments. During the past years he
was responsible for two complete new automotive ASIC-developments, which
are coordinated through Sensata and implement by a supply industry.
He also designed electronics for telephones and base-stations at Ericsson
Eurolabs.
Michael
Vellekoop
Michael J. Vellekoop was born in Amsterdam in 1960. He received the B.Sc.
degree in Physics in 1982 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering
in 1994. In 1988 he co-founded Xensor Integration B.V. where he was managing
director until 1996. In that year he initiated a new group on the topic
of physical chemosensors at the DIMES Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory
of the Delft University of Technology, where in 1997 he became an associated
professor. Since 2001 he is a full professor of Industrial Sensor Systems
at the Institute of Sensor and Actuator Systems at the Vienna University
of Technology, Austria. In 2002 he became head of this Institute. Since
2005 he is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
and in the same year he received the Eurosensors Fellow award. Keywords
of research are physical chemosensors and biosensors, sensor systems,
biochips, micro & nanofluidics, micro & nanotechnology.
Cassan
Visser
Cassan Visser was born in Utrecht on December 17 1951. He received his
MSc degree in Physics in 1981 at the University of Utrecht. From 1985-1987
he worked as a research assistant at the Department of Electrical Engineering
in Boston University and later in the Micro-Electronic Department at the
University of Madison Wisconsin, where he also studied material science.
He currently works as a Senior Process Engineer, specializing in Epitaxy
and CVD at the Delft Institute of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics
(DIMES).
Guijie
Wang
Guijie Wang was born on 10 December 1963 in HeNan, China. She received
the B.Sc degree from the Physics Department of Nankai University in 1984
and the M.Sc degree from the Electrical Engineering Department of Nankai
University in 1987. She received the Ph.D degree from Delft University
of Technology at the Faculty of Information Technology and Systems in
2005. She was working as a teacher in the Biomedical Engineering Department
of Tianjin University from 1987 to 1993. She joined the Delft University
of Technology at the Faculty of Information Technology and Systems in
1996. Her current research interests are integrated circuit of bandgap
references and temperature sensors in CMOS technology and their applications
in sensor interface circuits.
Reinoud
Wolffenbuttel
Reinoud F. Wolffenbuttel received a M.Sc. degree in 1984 and a Ph.D. degree
in 1988, both from the Delft University of Technology. Between 1986 and
1993 he has been an assistant professor and since 1993 he has been an
associate professor at the Department of Microelectronics, Faculty of
Information Technology and Systems of the Delft University of Technology
and is involved in instrumentation and measurement in general and on-chip
functional integration of microelectronic circuits and silicon sensor,
fabrication compatibility issues and micromachining in silicon and microsystems
in particular. He was a visitor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
USA in 1992, 1999 and 2001, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan in 1995 and
EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland in 1997. He is the recipient of a 1997 NWO
pioneer award. He served as general chairman of the Dutch national sensor
conference in 1996, Eurosensors in 1999 and Micromechanics Europe in 2003.
Jia
Qi
Qi Jia was born on May 6th, 1980 in Anshan, Liaoning Province, P. R. China.
From 1998 he studied at the Department of Electronics Engineering at Fudan
University, Shanghai, he continued his study at the same department as
a master student. In September 2003 he came to the Netherlands as one
of the first students who were involved in the Fudan-TU Delft International
School of Microelectronics. From then on he studied in the Department
of Micro-electronics and Computer Engineering at the TU Delft and finished
his master thesis in Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory. In March 2005
he graduated (with honour) in TU Delft and 4 month later he graduated
from Fudan University with master degrees from both universities.
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