Stefaan Decoutere

Stefaan Decoutere received the M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the Katholieke Universiteit  Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, in 1986 and 1992 respectively.  

He is with imec,  Leuven, since 1987, where he started in high-voltage BCD technology development.  From 1992 till 1997, he was in charge of the development of high-speed BiCMOS and SiGe HBT technologies.  

In 1998, he became the Head of the Mixed Signal/RF technology group in imec. 

Since 2010 he manages the GaN Power Electronics technology development, and in 2015 he became the Program Director of the GaN Power Electronics program. 

Stefaan Decoutere is an imec Fellow since 2023.