Roger Van Overstraeten

Roger Joseph, Baron Van Overstraeten (7 December 1937, Vlezenbeek – 29 April 1999, Leuven) was a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven and later the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, an IEEE Fellow and the founder of the micro- and nanoelectronics research center IMEC.^[1][2]

Van Overstraeten earned a PhD from Stanford University in 1963.

Honors and awards

In 1989 he was awarded the first Becquerel Prize by the European Commission.^[3]

In 1990 Van Overstraeten was elevated to Baron^[4] and he received the IEEE Frederik Philips Award (1999).^[5]