Kees Goossens received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1993 on hardware verification using embeddings of formal semantics of hardware description languages in proof systems. He worked for Philips/NXP Research from 1995 to 2010 on networks on chip for consumer electronics, where real-time performance, predictability, and costs are major constraints. He was part-time professor at Delft university from 2007 to 2010, and is now professor at the Eindhoven university of technology, where his research focusses on composable (virtualised), predictable (real-time), low-power embedded systems, supporting multiple models of computation. He published 2 books, 100+ papers, and 24 patents.