Michiel Van Beirendonck

Michiel Van Beirendonck is the CEO and co-founder of Belfort, based in Leuven. He co-founded the company in July 2024, where he has also served as chief technology officer.

From October 2019 to August 2025 he was a PhD researcher at KU Leuven. During that period he held silicon security internships at Rambus from July to October 2022 and at Microsoft from May to August 2023. In the summer of 2018 he was a student researcher at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne).

He studied electrical and electronics engineering at KU Leuven, completing a BSc between 2014 and 2017 and an MSc between 2017 and 2019, and spent 2017 to 2018 at EPFL on a SEMP exchange.