Herman Oprins

Herman Oprins is a senior research engineer at imec in Leuven, Belgium. He received the M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the K.U. Leuven, Belgium. He joined imec in 2003, pursuing the PhD degree, working on the development and modeling of an electrowetting assisted cooling technique. In that period he also worked on modeling and experimental projects in the field of thermal management of electronic packages. Since 2009 he is a senior research engineer in imec, where he is involved in the thermal experimental characterization, thermal modeling and thermal management of 3D system integration, electronic chip packages, BEOL, Si photonics and GaN power transistors.