Daniel Berckmans has a master’s and a PhD in Bioengineering. Headed as Full Professor for 20 years in the research Division M3-BIORES (Measure, Model and Manage Bio-responses), Department of Biosystems at the Catholic University of Leuven (⁰1425,62.000 students) and is Adjunct Distinguished Professor at the University of Tennessee USA. His research focus is on real-time monitoring of the health and well-being of individual humans and animals. He co-authored over 340 peer-reviewed publications, over 450 papers, participated in 64 PhD commissions in 9 countries, and promoted over 250 Master theses. He co-initiated the first European Master’s in Human Health Engineering at the KU Leuven: technology for monitoring healthy people. KU Leuven was ranked by Reuters as the seventh most innovative university worldwide in 2020 with 130 spin-off companies so far. This ranks KU Leuven as the most innovative university outside of the United States.