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Michael Kraft is a full Professor of Micro- and Nanosystems at the
University of Leuven, Department of Electrical Engineering in Belgium since
2017. He heads the Research Division Micro- and Nanosystems and is acting
director of the Leuven Institute for Micro and Nanoscale Integration
(LIMNI). He also is a guest professor at imec.
Before joining KU Leuven, he was a professor at the University of Liege
(2015-17) where he was responsible for the Microsys cleanroom. From
2012-2014, he was at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits
and Systems in Duisburg, Germany, where he was Head of Department of Micro- and Nanosystems
focussing on fully integrated microsensors and biohybrid systems. He concurrently held the W3
Professorial Chair of Integrated Micro- and Nanosystems at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
From 1999 to 2012, he was a faculty member and Professor of Micro-System-Technology at the
University of Southampton, UK. He graduated with a Dipl.-Ing. (Univ.) in electrical and electronics
engineering at the Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1993. In 1997, he was
awarded a PhD from Coventry University, UK on the development of a MEMS accelerometer. He
then spent two years at the Berkeley Sensors and Actuator Centre at the University of California
working on integrated MEMS gyroscopes. He has more than 25 years of experience in micro- and
nano-fabrication techniques, microsensors and actuators and their interface circuits. He has a broad
interest in MEMS and nanotechnology ranging from process development to system integration of
MEMS and nano-devices. He has published over 300 peer reviewed journal and conference
publications as an author or co-author. He also contributed to four textbooks on MEMS as author
and editor. He has served on several steering and technical committees of international conferences
such as Transducers, ISSCC, IEEE MEMS, IEEE Sensors, Eurosensors, MNE and MME, as well as being
an associate editor for the IEEE Sensors Letter, IEEE JMEMS, IOP JMM, MDPI Sensors, and AMA
Journal of Sensors and Sensors Systems.
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