Integration of Printed Electronic Components Toward Wearable Sensor Devices (Printed Electronics & Photovoltaics Europe 2010)

From 1992 worked at the Philips Research Laboratories in the development of (semi-)conducting polymers. Was involved in setup of PolyLED Business Unit at Philips, resulting in a pilot production unit in Heerlen, From 1999 at TNO Industrial Technology and as research fellow of the Dutch Polymer Institute to set up a group, working on semi-conducting polymers and devices. Involved as Chief Technology Officer in a startup-company, "Orgatronics", aiming at pilot production of organic electronic applications. Involved in setup of the Holst Centre at the Eindhoven High Tech Campus. Currently, program manager of the Holst Centre strategic program "Sensor Tags & Systems". Recently appointed as Senior Research Fellow of TNO.

Holst Centre/TNO (www.holstcentre.com), set up by the TNO and IMEC, is an independent shared-innovation R&D Centre for Flexible Electronics and Sensor Technologies in the Netherlands. A key feature is its partnership model with industry and academia comprising more than 40 international companies. Holst Centre/TNO has major activities in the areas of TOLAE, (hybrid) printed electronics, flexible OLEDs, photovoltaics and oxide transistor technology. Holst Centre has demonstrated solutions for numerous hybrid and printed electronics products, varying from printed temperature and humidity sensing devices, paper electronics, health-patches, smart garments, and (thermoformed) stretchable products