Peter Schelkens received his degree in electronic engineering in VLSI-design from the Industriële Hogeschool Antwerpen-Mechelen (IHAM), Campus Mechelen. Thereafter, he obtained an electrical engineering degree (MSc) in applied physics, a biomedical engineering degree (medical physics), and, finally, a PhD degree in applied sciences from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Peter Schelkens currently holds a professorship at the Department of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Peter Schelkens is research director at the iMinds institute founded by the Flemish government to stimulate ICT innovation. Additionally, since 1995, he has also been affiliated to the Interuniversity Microelectronics Institute (imec), Belgium, as scientific collaborator. Since 2010, he became a member of the board of councillors of the same institute. From 2002 till 2011, Peter Schelkens has held an FWO postdoctoral fellowship and since 2014, he holds an ERC Consolidator Grant focusing on digital holography. The research interests of Peter Schelkens are situated in the field of multidimensional signal processing encompassing the representation, communication, security and rendering of these signals while especially focussing on cross-disciplinary research. Peter Schelkens has published over 200 papers in journals and conference proceedings, and he holds several patents and contributed to several standardisation processes. His team is participating in the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 (JPEG) and WG11 (MPEG) standardization activities. Peter Schelkens is the Belgian head of delegation for the ISO/IEC SC29 and JPEG standardization committees, editor/chair of part 10 of JPEG 2000: ‘‘Extensions for Three-Dimensional Data’’ and PR Chair of the JPEG committee. From 2012 onwards he is acting as rapporteur/chair of JPEG Coding and Analysis Technologies, overlooking all JPEG coding standards. He is currently also chairing the JPEG Innovations group. Peter Schelkens is co-editor of the books, ‘‘The JPEG 2000 Suite’’ and “Optical and Digital Image Processing”, published respectively in 2009 and 2011 by Wiley. He is a member of the IEEE, SPIE, and ACM, Belgian EURASIP Liaison Officer and elected committee member of theIEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (IVMSP TC) (Term 2013-2015) and the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (MMSP TC) (Term 2014-2016). Since 2015 he is also appointed as vice-chair of the EURASIP Special Area Team on Visual Information Processing. Peter Schelkens is associate editor of Signal Processing:Image Communication and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, for which he was the recepient of the Best Associate Editor Award in 2014. In 2011, he was acting as General (co-)Chair of the following conferences: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) and Workshop on Image Processing for Art Investigation (IP4AI). Peter Schelkens is also co-founder of the spin-off company,Universum Digitalis

 The research interests of Peter Schelkens are situated in the field of multidimensional signal processing encompassing the representation, communication, security and rendering of these signals while especially focussing on cross-disciplinary research.