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Herbert De Smet
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Prof. Dr. ir. Herbert De Smet
CMST Affiliated with IMEC vzw
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CMST
Technologiepark - Zwijnaarde 126
B-9052 Gent, Belgium
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tel : +32-9-264.53.63
fax : +32-9-264.35.94
e-mail: Herbert.DeSmet@UGent.be
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Biography
Herbert De Smet was born in Gent (Ghent) in 1965. In 1988, he graduated in physics engineering at Ghent
University, where in January 1994 he also obtained his doctoral degree. His PhD thesis was titled
"
Poly-Ge/poly-CdSe thin-film circuits for on-glass integrated driving of
flat-panel displays". This thesis is
available as a pdf-file.
In 1995, Herbert started working for
imec. Today, he is involved in several
research projects concerning smart lenses and tunable opto-electric components.
In 1997, He married Sofie Van Calster. She is an engineer-architect and has a "
house page" (in Dutch).
From October 2000 to September 2007, Herbert was a part-time assistant professor (docent) at Ghent
University in the domain "Microsystems and sensors".
From October 2007 to September 2014, he was a full-time associate professor (hoofddocent) at Ghent
University in the domain "Integrated intelligent sensors and metrology".
In October 2014, he became a professor (hoogleraar) and since September 2022, he is a full professor (gewoon hoogleraar).
Since October 2018, Prof. De Smet is Chair of the
Public Relations
Committee of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of Ghent University.
Since 2011, he is the Director of the
Mid-Europe chapter of
the
Society for Information Display (SID).
From 2015 to 2018, he was also the Editor in Chief of the
Journal of the Society for Information Display (JSID)(Wiley).
Herbert De Smet is the author or co-author of more than 250
publications and has supervised
12 PhDs.
orcid.org/0000-0001-9640-8454
Scopus ID: 7004058440