Research Management
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Philips Research is part of Philips Corporate Technologies. The organizations grouped under Corporate Technologies have a strong history in contributing to the innovation in Philips and the development of new markets. Building on the resulting competencies, Corporate Technologies today creates and licenses options and Intellectual Property (IP), provides Research & Development (R&D) services and incubates new businesses. The management of Philips Research reports directly to Gottfried Dutiné, Executive Vice-President Royal Philips Electronics and Global Head of Markets & Innovation. Philips Research is headed by Henk van Houten:
Senior Vice President & General Manager Philips Research Program Manager Healthcare Henk van Houten received his PhD from the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, in 1984 after graduating in physics. In 1985, he joined Philips Research where he investigated quantum transport phenomena in semiconductor nanostructures – work awarded with the Royal Dutch Shell prize. From 1988 to 1989, he worked on blue semiconductor lasers at the Philips Research Laboratory in Briarcliff, NY. Between 1991 and 1996, he was Department Head of the Experimental and Theoretical Physics group at Philips Research in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. From 1996 to 2001, he was Department Head of the Optics group, being actively involved in research and standardization of the Blu-ray optical disc system, and from 2001 to 2002, he was Department Head of the Storage Signal Processing group. In 2002, he became Program Manager for Lighting, Devices, and Microsystems. In 2003, he was appointed Senior Vice President Philips Research. June 2005, he became Program Manager Healthcare, with responsibility for a comprehensive global research program with applications in professional as well as consumer healthcare, in developed and emerging markets. The program addresses the innovation needs of the Philips Healthcare sector in its imaging systems, patient care and clinical informatics, and home healthcare solutions business groups. Key innovation themes in the program include image-guided intervention and therapy, clinical decision support systems, and home healthcare. From 2005 to 2009, Henk was General Manager of Philips Research Aachen. On October 15, 2010, Henk van Houten was appointed General Manager Philips Research. Henk van Houten was born in Groningen, the Netherlands, in 1957. He is married and has four children. |
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