Barend van Liempd

Author

Barend van Liempd received his BSc and MSc in electrical engineering from the Technical University Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in 2009 and 2011 respectively. In 2017, he was awarded his doctorate from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in conjunction with imec. From 2011 to 2014, he worked as an R&D engineer at imec on multi-standard transceivers. He then became a PhD researcher and later, in 2017, senior researcher. In 2018, he was appointed as program manager radar and he currently leads imec’s radar IC R&D activities. Barend’s interests focus mainly on analog, RF and millimeter wave circuits for wireless applications and sensors. He is the author and co-author of over 30 papers, patents and patent applications. In 2015, he received the NXP Prize at the European Microwave IC (EuMIC) conference.

Portrait of Barend van Liempd in a blue suit, seated indoors and smiling at the camera.

Authored articles

Runner checking a wrist device outdoors while listening with earbuds

A compact 140GHz radar chip for detecting small movements, such as heartbeats

02/05/2019

Radar technology is being used increasingly to make smart applications possible. Monitoring your heartbeat or detecting hand movements for human-machine interaction is now possible with imec’s 140GHz radar chip.

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