Speakers

Dr Rogier Verberk holds a PhD In experimental physics from Leiden University (2005). At TNO he worked on EUV lithography with ASML and Carl Zeiss and became principal project manager. From 2013 on he helped to set up the QuTech research centre for quantum technologies. Since 2016 he is Market Director at TNO responsible for Semiconductor Equipment, Quantum Technologies and Medical Photonics. He is active as core team member of the Dutch national roadmaps for Nanotechnology and Semiconductor Equipment, the Strategic Advisory Board of the European Quantum Technologies Flagship and Supervisory Board member of QuantumDeltaNL. 

Jeroen Dijsselbloem (1966) is Mayor of Eindhoven, the city where he was born. He is the former Minister of Finance (2012-2017), President of the Eurogroup (2013-2018) and President of the Board of Governors of the European Stability Mechanism (2013-2018). Dijsselbloem studied agricultural economics at the Wageningen University, and made a career in government as policy adviser and later as a member of parliament for the Partij van de Arbeid (Labour party). 

As Mayor of Eindhoven, Jeroen Dijsselbloem is also chairman of the Metropole Region Eindhoven (MRE), the Brainport foundation, the regional police and the fire department. In his spare time, he is chairman of Dutch nature conservation organization Natuurmonumenten. 

Dr Sanne van der Lugt is researcher and policy advisor on China in Africa, Chinese technological developments and the consequences for European strategic autonomy. Because of her background in Anthropology, International Political Economy and International Business, she studies these topics from different angles. As a researcher at the Center for Chinese Studies of Stellenbosch University in South Africa, she has conducted fieldwork in various African countries. She has carried out research projects for Oxfam, WWF and the European Commission, among others. She has experience with running a business in China and provides training and advice to European policy makers. “Improving relationships by increasing mutual understanding” is her motto and her strength.

Robert-Jan Smits is President of the Executive Board since May 2019. As President he believes that universities must seek a stronger connection with and relevance to society and its challenges. Educating young talents and carrying out excellent research is essential. The TU/e is embedded in a strong high-tech region. Together and in full partnership, university and industry in this innovation ecosystem are realizing the unimaginable.

Marc Hijink is a technology reporter and columnist for NRC Handelsblad. 
His book 'Focus, inside the world of ASML' has just been published out in the Netherlands. As a journalist he has over 15 years of writing for the leading newspaper in The Netherlands. Marc writes about the semiconductor industry, technology trade wars and geopolitics. His columns cover a plethora of topics, like cybercrime, consumer electronics, telecommunications, social media, mobility, AI and algorithms. 
His reporting appears in the Finance and Science section of NRC Handelsblad and nrc.nl. 
Marc is focused on translating complex concepts into compelling stories for a broad audience.

Dr Sohn is the VP of Technology (Master) in Samsung Electronics' Semiconductor Memory Division. He leads the Advanced Metrology & Inspection Tech team to develop new technologies and apply them to High Volume Manufacturing (HVM). Since joining Samsung Electronics in 2006, he has been involved in the development of advanced MI technology projects from solution discovery to implementing production system. He holds more than 50 patents in the field of semiconductor MI.

Dr. Sohn received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University (Mechanical engineering) in 2005. The Thesis title was “Near-field photoacoustic material characterization using scanning laser source and micro-fabricated ultrasound receiver”.”

Dr Raaijmakers is currently Corporate Vice President and Executive Advisor of ASM International NV (“ASM”), focusing on innovation management, new technologies and government relations. He started his career in 1982 at the Philips Research Labs in the Netherlands. He moved to the USA in 1988, where he held various positions in  semiconductor technology development and R&D management at Philips, Novellus, and Applied Materials. Dr. Raaijmakers joined ASM in 1996 in its ASM America subsidiary and was appointed CTO in 1999, based out of ASM’s headquarter in the Netherlands, a position he held until 2022. Dr. Raaijmakers has authored over 50 technical publications, has been invited as a speaker to many conferences, and is an inventor on over 175 granted patents. He holds M.Sc. (“Ir”) (1982) and Ph.D. (1988) degrees in Physics from “Eindhoven University of Technology” (the Netherlands), specializing in Plasma Physics and Materials Science.

Marcel Muitjens is Vice President of the Machine Conditioning cluster within ASML’s Development & Engineering organization.

He has been working at ASML for more than 27 years, starting right after he finished his PhD in applied Physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

He gained broad knowledge and experience in ASML’s system engineering approach applied in the fields of thermal, flow and control architecture, vacuum systems, defectivity and of optical coating lifetime

Irene Rompa studied Psychology at VU University. Her love for sustainability led her to the US in the year after her graduation (2011), where she led the international expansion of Dutch reusable waterbottle company Dopper. After returning back home in 2015, she worked in the Dutch tech ecosystem in a wide variety of roles, leading accelerators, facilitating Dutch startups’ international expansions and organizing large innovation events. Until recently, she served as the Head of Communication at Quantum Delta NL, a public-private partnership that scales the Netherlands’ quantum technology ecosystem.

Currently, she’s a mediator and facilitates family constellations next to her work as an event host.

Background in Mechanical Engineering - Systems & Control. Worked on semiconductor equipment research and development for 300mm wafer stage and EUV lithography. More recently, heavily involved in setting up the NGF program NXTGEN Hightech, both in the Smart Industry domain and Semiconductor domain.

Will be hosting the Breakout session on Future Mechatronic System Architecture Developments for Semicon Equipment

Fokko holds a PhD in quantum physics in the field of novel semiconducting qubit technologies. As a roadmap leader Fokko is part of the strategic team that takes care of the product planning and management of the Qblox quantum control stacks. On top of that, he is responsible for collaborations with Universities, RTO's and other companies.

PhD in Physical Chemistry at KIT, Karlsruhe.

Joined ZEISS in 2001 after a position as Head of Production in a SMB optoelectronics company.

The high energy of DUV and EUV photons causes a multitude of effects in materials, coatings and contaminants. Deep understanding and taking approriate mitigations is crucial for the reliability and lifetime of lithography systems.

For decades PFAS based materails had been part of the solution. To make semiconductor manufacturing more sustainable also these persistant and partly toxic substances have to be reduced or replaced.

This adds annother challenge to the complex path making semiconductor processes more sustainable while keeping the sub nanometer accuracy which is key factor for energy efficient computing power. 

Breakout session on Sustainability 

Olaf Kievit studied Chemical Engineering at Delft University of Technology, where he also obtained a PhD in Aerosol Technology. He worked at 3M Corporation for 6 years, developing new technology for air filtration. Olaf joined TNO in 2001 as a project manager and research scientist. He has been active in high-tech equipment development for over 15 years and made the switch to business development 6 years ago. Olaf has been involved in many European projects in the field of Semiconductor and Quantum Technology. He is also an evaluator for the EU and member of the Xecs Technical Expert Group. This makes him the ideal person to talk about "Public funding opportunities in Europe".

Clara I. Osorio Tamayo is a Senior Scientist at TNO. She currently leads TNO’s Quantum Sensing program and the Dutch Program on Quantum Sensing (CAT3 - QDNL). Over the past 20 years, her focus has been on quantum technologies, primarily in quantum sensing and communications, contributing to R&D projects spanning the Semiconductor, Medical, and Defense industries. 

Clara holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Quantum Physics from ICFO (Spain) and has previously worked at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and AMOLF (The Netherlands) before joining TNO.

Paul Planken is a  groupleader at the Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (ARCNL) and a  full professor at the UVA. ARCNL is a public-private partnership between the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG), the Netherlands Organization for
Scientific Research (NWO), and the semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML. 
The Light/Matter Interaction group that he heads  focuses on fundamental research on Photoacoustics for metrology applications, and on light-induced optical damage (LID) and in particular on innovative methods to detect LID before it becomes problematic.  He is a VICI laureate and a fellow of Optica (formerly known as the OSA).

Benoit Quesson (1979) graduated from ESEO (École supérieure d'électronique de l'Ouest) in France in 2003 with a specialization in signal processing. After a graduation internship in the Sonar and Acoustic department of TNO, he was hired in 2003 in the same department. Until 2016, he worked mostly in signal processing on sonar applications. Since 2017, he started to investigate NDT technologies and more specifically the use of acoustics in semicon metrology applications. He was involved in particular in the branch of a TNO Early Research Program (ERP) that investigated the scaling of transducers to GHz frequencies and their use for metrology. His expertise covers modeling, conduction of experiments, data analysis and system design. Since 2021 he is a senior scientist with a growing role in semicon acoustic metrology. 

Dr. Trimboli received his PhD in 2005 on high-temperature gas sensors for combustion process monitoring. He then worked at Eltron R&D developing portable sensors for detecting chemical weapons, rocket fuels, and other hazardous materials. Following this, Dr. Trimboli worked at Raytheon where he developed technologies for defense systems and led integration efforts for a persistent surveillance platform used in Iraq and Afghanistan. From 2009-2020 he held various roles at MRIGlobal, which included managing a specialty analysis laboratory, leading several programs related to national security and defense, and serving as a subject-matter-expert on analytical chemistry tasks. Dr. Trimboli joined TNO in early 2020 where he currently leads the Chemical Sensing and Geo-Energy expertise groups.

After graduation, Aleksandar worked as an IC designer with Philips Semiconductors (now NXP) until 2006. He then obtained a PhD at the University of Twente in the area of supercoducting circuits in 2013 and joined the research group Nanotechnology at the Saxion University of Applied Sciences. He currently leads a group on More-than-Moore testing and probing at the Saxion and is an R&D Scientist at Salland Engineering.  

Breakout session on Public funding opportunities in the European Union and the Netherlands

Vera works on large scale collaborations and strategy within the Semicon domain. She focusses on semicon equipment and components. 

Jacob Hoogenboom is group leader and associate professor in the department of Imaging Physics at TU Delft. His research is aimed at the development of new instrumentation and methods for electron microscopy and correlative light and electron microscopy. Jacob is co-founder of Delmic and executive board member of NEMI - the Netherlands Electron Microscopy Infrastructure. 

Thijs has a background in dynamics and control and over 15 years of experience in high-tech equipment. Graduated from TU/e, he started at MuTracx, an Océ spinoff in industrial PCB inkjet printing. 

In 2013 he started at NXP’s ITEC department as principal mechatronics engineer and later platform architect for the ADAT3-XF die bonders. In 2017 Nexperia carved out of NXP together with ITEC. Thijs took roles as system architecture, product and development management to enter emerging markets RFID and mini/microLED.

In his current role as Innovation Manager he is responsible for technology roadmapping and partnerships, ensuring that ITEC keeps on pushing the technology frontiers.