W. Van Roy

Willem Van Roy received the master’s and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, in 1990 and 1995, respectively. He joined imec, Leuven, in 1990. From 1995 to 1999, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Joint Research Center for Atom Technology (JRCAT), Tsukuba, Japan, before returning to imec. He was active for about 20 years in the fields of magnetoelectronics and spintronics, focusing on the materials science and device physics of spins in semiconductors and metallic heterostructures. Since 2008, his interest has been shifted to the life sciences area, and he is currently a Principal Member of Technical Staff of the Department of Life Science Technologies, imec, focusing on optical and electrical biosensing, overall system performance analysis, assay kinetics, with further interests in ionics, microfluidics, PCR, electrochemistry, and more. He has authored or coauthored over 140 peer-reviewed journal articles and holds 15 patent applications.