Clemens J. Kruckel received the B.Sc. degree in information technology from Technical-University Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany, in 2008, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from TUHH, with a study focus on microsystem technology and nanoelectronics, and the Ph.D. degree from the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2017. During a master semester abroad with the KTH Roal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, he covered courses in the field of semiconductor and nanomaterials. For his master's thesis, he explored post-process-tuning of the amorphous silicon in photonics waveguides. He started his Ph.D. research with Photonics Laboratory, Chalmers University of Technology, in 2012, where, he worked on low-loss photonics waveguides of silicon nitride. He studied how the material composition effects both optical and mechanical properties. In 2017, he joined Ghent University-imec, as a postdoctoral Researcher. He is currently working toward a reconfigurable optical networks within the SOI platform. His work is part of the European SPICE Project that explores all-optical switching of magnetic memory cells. His general research interests include nanofabrication technologies, integrated photonics, and digital electronics.