Marcel Pelgrom

Marcel J. M. Pelgrom (Life Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Twente University, Enschede, The Netherlands. In 1979, he joined Philips Research Laboratories, where his research has covered topics as charge coupled devices, MOS matching properties, analog-to-digital conversion, digital image correlation, and various analog building block techniques. He has headed several project teams and was as a Team Leader for high-speed analog-to-digital conversion products responsible for many integrated circuits. His IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits paper on MOS transistor mismatch is the most cited paper of this journal. From 1996 to 2003, he was the Head of Department of Mixed-Signal Electronics Research. In 2003 and 2014, he spent a sabbatical with Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, where he was appointed as a Consulting Professor. He was a member of the technical staff of NXP Semiconductors, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, until 2013. Next to the various activities concerning industry-academic relations, he was involved as a Research Fellow in research on substrate noise, variability, and advanced conversion techniques. He is currently an Independent Consultant. Dr. Pelgrom is currently an Honorary Professor at KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, and the 2017 recipient of the prestigious IEEE Gustav R. Kirchhoff Award. He served twice as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—I: Regular Papers, and has written over 40 publications, three books, seven book chapters, and holds 37 U.S. patents. He is currently lecturing at Twente University, Delft University, Delft, The Netherlands, and for MEAD/EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.