Robert Puers

Robert (Bob) Puers was born in Antwerpen, Belgium, 1953, and grew up in Ghent. He received his Master of Industrial Sciences in Electronics (ing.) in Ghent in 1974, and his Master of Electrical Engineering (ir.) at the KU Leuven in 1977, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1986.

From 1980 he was employed as a Research Assistant at the Laboratory ESAT at KU Leuven. In 1986 he became Director (FWO) of the clean room facilities for silicon and hybrid circuit technology at the ESAT-MICAS laboratories of the same University. He pioneered research on micromachining, MEMS and packaging in Flanders, mainly for applications in implantable biomedical monitoring. Recently, microfluidic, microhydraulic and optical MEMS based on silicon and polymers have been added to his research.

Robert Puers is professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, since 1991.