Peter Ossieur received an M.Sc. Engineering degree in applied electronics and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, in 2000 and 2005, respectively. From 2005 to 2008, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fund of Scientific Research, Ghent University. During that time, his research focused on 10-Gb/s burst-mode receivers and optoelectronics for automotive applications. In 2008, he became a part-time Professor of High-Frequency Electronics at the Faculty of Engineering, Ghent University.
In 2009, he joined the Photonic Systems Group, Tyndall National Institute, and the Department of Physics, University College Cork, Ireland, where he became Senior Staff Researcher in April 2013. In this position he established an IC design group focusing on optoelectronic applications.
In October 2017, he joined imec-IDLab as Senior Researcher and is currently Program Manager High-Speed Transceivers. He leads research activity focused on the development of high-speed analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for photonic applications. He has (co-) authored 130 peer-reviewed papers and holds several patents in the aforementioned research areas.