Steve Stoffels

Steve Stoffels - CTO & Co-Founder, Pulsify Medical

Steve Stoffels is an experienced professional and entrepreneur in the tech sector, with almost 20 years of experience. He received his M.Sc. degree (Magna Cum Laude) in applied physics at the University of Eindhoven in 2001. In 2000, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford university in California, researching computational acoustics. After several years working in the industry, he returned to research and received the degree of Doctor in Engineering (Ph.D.) from the Catholic university of Leuven in 2010, for his thesis on microfabricated resonators. Until 2019 he worked on bringing a high power GaN technology for switching applications from the lab to the fab; coordinating and executing activities related to design, modelling, reliability and technology development for novel device concepts. He has coordinated more than ten national and international projects, contributed to the European roadmap for high power electronics and from 2017 to 2019 he was member of IRPS technical committee for wide bandgap semiconductors. Currently, he is co-founder and CTO of Pulsify Medical, a high-tech medical device company working on bringing an innovative ultrasound monitoring system to the market. In this role he has successfully lead the company to first-in-human trials for their innovative device concept and initiated process transfer activities to the industry. He oversees the overall technology development strategy, leads the technology department, develops critical technology & manufacturing partnerships and is chief system designer for Pulsify Medical.