Bert is well known in the scientific community for his pioneering contributions to wireless OFDM communications leading to our current generation of WiFi modems. Bert lives by the golden rule “working hard, playing hard”. In 2001, he replaced his office chair for a bike saddle and went on a 12 month odyssey in the Asia Pacific region. After 15000km in “under” developed countries, he was inspired to create technologies that can have a true impact on society.
For this purpose, he established the Human++ program within imec. This program develops disruptive technologies for health and comfort monitoring. As the exponent of the Human++ program, Bert became known as a thought leader in the area of body area networks.
Bert received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Belgium, and the DEA degree in Air and Space Electronics from the École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace, Toulouse, France. He is also a trainee at the Research and Development group of Siemens in Munich, Germany.