Prof. Dr.-Ing. Herbert De Gersem received the MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the KU Leuven, Belgium, in 1994 and 2001. From 2001 to 2006 he was at the TU Darmstadt in Germany. Since 2001 he is an associated professor at the KU Leuven in Belgium. Since 2014 he is full professor and head of the Institute for Accelerator Science and Electromagnetic Field (TEMF) at the TU Darmstadt in Germany. His research interests are finite-element electromagnetic field simulation for electrotechnical devices and particle accelerators and FDTD and FETD techniques for electromagnetic and ultrasonic wave propagation.