Management Team

Hans van den Vlekkert
President and Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Hans van den Vlekkert has been active in the MST for nearly 20 years. He has carried out research, as well as development work resulting in several products available on the market such as pH-ISFET systems and accelerometers.

During his career he has been responsible for marketing and sales (CSEM and TMP) as well as for production of Microsystems (Sentron, CSEM as head of silicon foundries) and at TMP for small volume production and subcontracting higher volumes to other foundries and assembly companies.

He was active in European programs as project leader for large projects such as Europractice and was also member of the board of Nexus and Eurimus. He has written over 50 papers and holds several patents in various fields.

Henk Leeuwis
Executive Vice-President, Marketing & Sales

Henk Leeuwis has been active in the MST for over 20 years. He has carried out research, as well as development work resulting in several products such as chemical (CHEMFETs), magnetic and micromachined sensors. He has been project manager and department head including the responsibility for marketing and sales (Dutch Centre for Micro-Electronics, 3T BV) with a focus on custom-specific development of leading edge microsystems for (big) industrial companies.

He was active in European programs as project leader for RTD projects and as proposal evaluator. He is Honory Founder and Board Member of the Dutch Micro/Nano Technology Association MinacNed and is involved in numerous governmental task forces and committees.

René Heideman
Chief Technical Officer & Co-Founder

René Heideman obtained his MsC and his PhD degree in Applied Physics at the University of Twente. After his post-doc positions he applied his extensive know-how in the industry. Since 2001, he is co-founder and CTO of LioniX BV. He is an expert in the field of MST, based more than 20 years of experience. He specializes in Integrated Optics, covering both (bio-) chemical sensing and telecom applications. He is (co)author of more than 100 papers and holds more than 20 patents in the integrated optics field, on 10 different subjects. He participates in the Dutch IOP steering committee as well as several European projects.

Albert Prak
Chief Operations Officer

Albert Prak has 20 years experience in MEMS and microtechnology, from which 14 years in industry.

He is the founder of the MATAS integration technology for modular assembly of micro total analysis systems (a.k.a. Lab-on-a-Chip systems) and published the technology in influential journals and conferences. At 3T he subsequently worked as an engineer, designer and project leader in the product development of microfluidic systems for industrial applications. These projects involved i.e. pH-, conductivity-, flow- and ion sensors, micropumps, capillary electrophoresis, microelectronics and system control.