Chris Van Hoof

Chris Van Hoof - VP R&D, imec & General Manager, OnePlanet Research Center

Chris Van Hoof is Vice President R&D at imec and also General Manager of the OnePlanet Research Center. Chris believes preventive health, personalised nutrition, sustainable food production and reduced waste are essential enablers of improving our world for the generations to come. And he is convinced that technology (hardware and AI) are indispensable tools to make that happen. After receiving a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Leuven in 1992, Chris has held positions as manager and director at imec in highly diverse fields spanning technology, circuits, systems, data and applications and diverse imec locations. Apart from delivering industry-relevant innovative solutions to customers, his work also resulted in five startups (four in the healthcare domain). He is also full professor at the University of Leuven and imec Fellow. Although OnePlanet Research Center only started 5 years ago, it has already built up a team of 100 scientists and engineers, who create innovations in close collaboration with the founding partners of OnePlanet - technology teams from imec and domain knowledge from Radboud University and Medical Center and Wageningen University and Research.