Marcel Pelgrom received his B.EE, M.Sc, and PhD from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. In 1979, he joined the Philips Research Laboratories, where his research has covered topics such as charge coupled devices, MOS matching properties, analog-to-digital conversion, digital image correlation, and various analog building block techniques. He has headed several project teams and was a team leader for highspeed analog-to-digital conversion. From 1996 until 2003, he was a department head for mixed-signal electronics. In addition to various activities concerning industry-academic relations, he was a Philips Research Fellow, which research topics on the edge of design and technology. In 2003, he spent a sabbatical in Stanford University where he served as a consulting professor and in 2014 as a lecturer. From 2006 until 2013, he has been a member of the technical staff at NXP Semiconductors. Dr. Pelgrom was twice an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and has written over40 publications and seven book chapters, and he holds 37 US patents. He currently lectures at Delft University of Technology, the University of Twente and for MEAD Inc, next to consulting in various companies. He is the 2017 recipient of the IEEE field award Gustav R. Kirchhoff.