Staf received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the KULeuven in 1995. Since then he has been working at imec. First in the TCAD group then in the lithography group and currently in the full-custom design group. There he is involved in the development of IP for space like SRAM memories, standard cell libraries, etc. He also supports customers of the rad. hard services in their quest to get out of this world.