Lars-Ake Ragnarsson

Lars Åke Ragnarsson received the M.S. degree and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, in 1993 and 1999, respectively. Between 2000 and 2002, he did postdoctoral studies with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, focusing mainly on the electrical characterization of high-k dielectrics. Since 2002, he has been with imec in Leuven, Belgium, focusing on the development of advanced technologies using high- κ dielectrics and metal gates. Today Lars-Åke is a scientific director in compute and memory technologies with a strong focus on the Sustainability of current and future technologies.