Jo De Boeck

Jo De Boeck (1963) received his EE (1986) and PhD (1991) degrees from the University of Leuven. Since 1986 he is with imec (HQ Leuven, Belgium). In his research career, he has been leading activities on integration of novel materials at device level and new functionalities at systems level. In 2003 he became Vice President at IMEC for the Microsystems division and in 2005 joined imec’s executive board and became Managing Director for imec-Netherlands (Holst Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands). He headed imec’s Smart Systems and Energy Technology Business Unit. In 2011 he became imec’s Chief Technology Officer and in 2018 he was appointed Chief Strategy Officer. His focus areas as EVP are public-private partnerships, government relations, the imec innovation pipeline for breakthrough R&D and spin-offs, the imec.istart venture accelerator and academic relations, including imec associated PhDs and PostDocs.
He has been a NATO Science Fellow at Bellcore (USA, 1991-92) and AST-fellow in the Joint Research Center for Atom Technology (Japan, 1998). He is part-time professor at the KU Leuven and was a visiting professorship at TU Delft, Kavli Institute for Nanoscience (2003–2016).