Overview
Ben Somers is the founder and chief executive of Brainphonics, a company he started in September 2024 and which is based in Leuven.
He spent nine years at KU Leuven beforehand. He joined as a doctoral researcher in October 2015, continued as a postdoctoral researcher from January to August 2021, and then worked as a business developer from September 2021 until August 2024.
Somers was also active in the Board of European Students of Technology, serving as president of BEST Leuven from August 2014 to August 2015 and as a soft skill trainer from July 2015 to March 2018. He attended the organisation's bePROUD13 trainshop on leadership and project management in Leuven in 2014 and the 23rd edition of Trainer's Camp in Cluj-Napoca in 2015.
He studied at KU Leuven, taking a bachelor's degree in mechanical and electrical engineering from 2010 to 2013 and a master's degree in electrical and electronics engineering from 2013 to 2015. He completed an MBA at Flanders Business School between 2020 and 2022, and attended secondary school in mathematics and sciences at Xaveriuscollege Borgerhout from 2004 to 2010.
Career history
In the news
- Good neighbours are worth getting to know! For our latest HealthTech mission, we headed to La Grande Région - more specifically Wallonia and Luxembourg - where strong healthcare networks sit just across the border. 10 things we seriously loved about our trip! ⬇️❤️ 1️⃣ Walloon healthtech, straight from the source. Interactive sessions with Bridge2Health, Ignity, BioWin and CHU de Liège gave our founders a closer look at the local ecosystem. 2️⃣ The network was networking. We met investors like Wallonie Entreprendre, partners such
- CORGEE wins the HWL2026 Visitors’ Choice Award! What a great way to wrap up Healthcare Week Luxembourg 2026! 🇱🇺 We’re so proud to receive the HWL Visitors’ Choice Award, which recognizes the innovation that received the highest cumulative score from Healthcare Week Luxembourg visitors. The awards were presented by Marc Berna, Vice-President of the Fédération des Hôpitaux Luxembourgeois, and Liners Françoise, Director of Health Technologies at the Ministry of the Economy. Our co-founder & CEO Ben Somers had the pleasure of
- Earlier this week, the CORGEE system was featured in three separate talks at the OMAI conference in Zurich (Objective Measures in Auditory Implants). The presentations highlighted the use of Neural Speech Tracking (NST) as implemented on the CORGEE system as a new clinical technique to objectively assess speech processing. 🦻 Objective outcomes were shown for a broad range of hearing prostheses, from clinical trial data with a large pediatric hearing aid user cohort (Sam Denys) to real-time implementation with pediatric cochlear
- Warm request to my network: we're looking for our next team member at Brainphonics! Someone with strong commercial skills, a background in the medical or (preferably) audiological sector, and eagerness to work in an impactful & fast-moving startup. If you know someone who might be a great fit, a share or an introduction would be greatly appreciated! 🙏
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