Chris Van Hoof
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.
Authored articles
Technology to capture your gut feeling
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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Glasses that keep an eye on your health
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…
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
“We need to prevent people from becoming patients in the first place”
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Get your daily health check in the car
Imec researches capacitive, optical and radar technology to integrate in your environment and in this way monitor – unnoticeable – your health.
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Imec looking for partners to combat chronic diseases
Imec launches research program imec.iCHANGE to develop a digital coach for a healthier life, based on sensor technology and data science.
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