Wim Deferme

Wim Deferme obtained an engineering degree in Applied Physics at the Technical University of Eindhoven in The Netherlands in 2003. He obtained a PhD in Materials Physics at Hasselt University in 2009 on the surface termination of synthetic diamond. In 2009, as a postdoc, he started research in the field of Printable Electronics and since February 2014 he is Professor at Hasselt University within the Institute for Materials Research (IUMAT), which is an affiliated lab of imec.

Wim is heading a group of a post-doc, 7 PhD students, 2 full-time researchers and several bachelor and master students in the field of “Engineering of Functional Materials”. The Functional Materials Engineering (FME) research group investigates the printing and coating of functional materials on a wide variety of substrates.  It is the aim of the FME group to optimize printing and coating techniques in combination with engineering of functional materials and understanding layer and coating formation.

Applications focus on:

• Organic Electronics mainly using ultrasonic spraycoating and the patented spray-on-screen deposition technology,

• Printed Sensor for Health Monitoring with a specific focus on wound monitoring,

• Hybrid 3D electronics and

• Flexible and stretchable electronics using liquid metals as conductive interconnection material.