Clemens Lasance, retired in September 2009, was a Principal Scientist at Philips Research in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He has been on the Philips staff since 1969, after he received his physics degree at EindhovenTechnical University. From 1984 onwards, his main focus has been thermal management of electronic systems. In 1996, he moved to Research, engaged with a long-term research program in this field. He published over 80 conference and journal papers. Both in 1995 and 2009 he (as the leading author) received the Best Paper Award at Semitherm. He is an editor of Electroinc Cooling magazine since its launch in 1995 and of Microelectronics Reliability. From 2000 to 2002, he led a successful EC-funded ten-partner consortium project called PROFIT resulting in 85 papers and 60 deliverables. He received the SEMITHERM Significant Contributor Award in 2001. He was the General Chair of SEMITHERM 2003 and acted as the co-program chair of THERMINIC for nine years. In 2006 he was the recipient of the Harvey Rosten Award for recognition of his pioneering contributions to thermal management issues over the past two decades.  He is the leading author of a book on Compact Thermal Models of Electronic Components that is being published as part of the Encyclopedia of Thermal Packaging, and the leading editor of a book on Thermal Management of LED applications, to be published by Springer. He is still active as a consultant through his company SomelikeitCool.