Prof. Michael Kraft. Photo: KU Leuven - Rob Stevens The KU Leuven Institute for Micro- and Nanoscale Integration (LIMNI) brings together researchers from various disciplines who work at very small length scales, explains founding member Michael Kraft from the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT). “To give you an idea: if you take a single hair and roll it between two fingers, you get a diameter of between 50 and 100 micrometres. And if you’re working at nanoscale, you have to divide that by a factor of more than a thousand, as one nanometre equals one-billionth of a metre.” Integrated systems KU Leuven hosts many researchers working at this scale, with disciplines ranging from mechanical, electrical, materials and bioscience engineering to physics, chemistry, and medical sciences, to name just a few examples. Michael Kraft: “Many of these researchers are leaders in their field, but if we want to address tomorrow’s challenges, all of us must share and integrate our knowledge.”