Sten Vollebregt (IEEE Senior Member) received his B.Sc. (’06) and M.Sc. (’09), both cum laude, in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology. In 2014, he completed his Ph.D. thesis in the Microelectronics Department of the Delft University of Technology on the low-temperature high-density growth of carbon nanotubes for application as vertical interconnects in 3D monolithic integrated circuits. After obtaining his Ph.D., he held a post-doc position on the wafer-scale integration of graphene for sensing applications with the faculty of Mechanical Engineering and several industrial partners. During this research, he developed a unique transfer-free wafer-scale CVD graphene process.
Since Oct. 2017, he has been a professor (associate) in the Laboratory of Electronic Components, Technology and Materials of the Delft University of Technology. His research focuses on integrating emerging electronic materials into semiconductor technology for sensing applications. His research interests are (carbon-based) nanomaterials, 3D monolithic integration, wide-bandgap semiconductors, and (harsh) environmental sensors.
Dr. Vollebregt is editor of the journal of Micro and Nano Engineering, was guest editor at MDPI Materials, and has served as a TPC member for the IEEE MEMS conference and Transducers Conference. In 2022, he received the Micro and Nano Engineering (Elsevier) Young Investigator Award for outstanding contributions to reproducible wafer-scale microfabrication with carbon-based materials. He has co-authored over 70 journal publications, 4 book chapters, and holds 3 patents.