Marc Moonen received the electrical engineering degree and the PhD degree in applied sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, in 1986 and 1990 respectively. He has been a research associate with the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, since 1994, and an Associate Professor, since 2000, both at the Electrical Engineering Department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

His research activities are in digital signal processing, digital communications and audio signal processing. He received the 1994 K.U. Leuven Research Council Award, the 1997 Alcatel Bell (Belgium) Award (with Piet Vandaele), and was a 1997 "Laureate of the Belgium Royal Academy of Science". He is chairman of the IEEE Benelux Signal Processing Chapter, a EURASIP AdCom Member, and a member of the editorial board of "Integration, the VLSI Journal" and "Applied Signal Processing".