Herman ten Kate received his Bachelor degree from the University of Twente in 1976, his M.Sc. degree in Applied Physics and Superconductivity in 1980 (for research on superconducting switches and transformers) and his Ph.D. degree for thesis research on ‘Superconducting Rectifiers” in 1985. In 1985 he became an assistant professor at the University of Twente and was the leader of the High Current Superconductivity Group from 1991 through 1996. In 1997, Prof. Ten Kate was appointed to a special chair as Extraordinary Professor for Industrial Applications of Superconductivity. In 1996 he accepted an appointment at CERN where he worked on a number of projects developing high performance, high field superconducting magnets for particle accelerator applications as a staff member of the Physics Department and became the ATLAS Magnet Systems Project Leader. The ATLAS Magnet system is the largest superconducting magnet system built for particle accelerator applications and played a critical role in the recent discovery of the Higgs boson. In addition to ATLAS he and his team are involved in problems solving for various detector magnets at CERN, as well as the design of new detector magnets for ILC, IAXO and PANDA and is leading the design of the new detector magnets for the Future Circular Collider.