Chris Van Hoof

Vice President R&D at imec, General Manager OnePlanet Research Center

Author

Chris Van Hoof is vice president of R&D, Connected Health Solutions at imec and leads teams at three different imec sites (Eindhoven, Leuven and Ghent). Imec's Connected Health Solutions teams create solutions for monitoring patients with chronic conditions and for preventive medicine using virtual coaches. Chris has brought wearable health within imec from fundamental research to a fully-fledged business line, with international customers and partners. Chris wants to develop products that really work and that are relevant for the industry, which has already led to the creation of five imec start-ups (4 in the field of health).

Chris obtained his PhD at KU Leuven in 1992, in collaboration with imec. He held various positions as manager and director in different research domains (sensors, image sensors, 3D integration, MEMS, energy harvesters, body sensor networks, biomedical electronics, portable health sensors). He is also a professor at KU Leuven.

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Authored articles

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Technology to capture your gut feeling

01/12/2020

Vision

Implantables & ingestibles

Nutrition affects you in a personal way. Ingestibles and sensors on a toilet seat can catch disease markers or obtain samples enabling personal feedback.

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COVID-19 and the medical uptake of off-the-shelf technologies

01/05/2020

Health & life science

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Ingestibles: from medical research tool to smart-health application

13/02/2020

Implantables & ingestibles

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Glasses that keep an eye on your health

02/09/2018

Imec/Holst Centre have developed spectacles that can detect eye movements. While this can be of use for Virtual Reality applications, it also opens up possibilities for early detection of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.

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So, this sensor goes to see a psychiatrist…

03/08/2018

Burnout is an immense problem, which is often related to continual stress. The World Health Organization even says stress has become a ‘World Wide Epidemic’. Chris Van Hoof , Senior Director Connected Health Solutions imec, talks about the problem and how technology can assist psychiatrists.

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Chris Van Hoof on health sensors

15/12/2017

Sustainable development

“We need to prevent people from becoming patients in the first place”

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Get your daily health check in the car

21/08/2017