Roger Joseph, Baron Van Overstraeten (7 December 1937, Vlezenbeek – 29 April 1999, Leuven) was a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven and later the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, an IEEE Fellow and the founder of the micro- and nanoelectronics research center IMEC.[1][2]
Van Overstraeten earned a PhD from Stanford University in 1963.
In 1989 he was awarded the first Becquerel Prize by the European Commission.[3]
In 1990 Van Overstraeten was elevated to Baron[4] and he received the IEEE Frederik Philips Award (1999).[5]