Dr. Joris Roels received both his master and PhD degree in electrical engineering from Ghent University and became an expert in the field of optical MEMS through his PhD research for which he received both the Barco High Tech Award for Scientific Research and the IEEE graduate student fellowship.

In 2010, he joined Melexis, a Belgium based company that develops, tests and markets advanced integrated semiconductor products as application engineer in the optical sensors business unit. Since 2013, Joris is in charge of the infrared temperature sensors product line in the Sense & Light Business unit.