I started as a research fellow at ESI in September 2008. My interests centre on the exploration and reasoning about system architectures, system-level behaviour modelling and multi-disciplinary system design.

Previous experience

I studied Technical Physics at the University of Twente, where my thesis ‘Optical Characterization in Flow Cytometry: Optimization and Miniaturization’ resulted in a PhD degree in 1995. Afterwards, I accepted a post-doctorate position at the Laser Center of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, where I worked on optical spectroscopic techniques for characterizing cardiovascular tissues for diagnostic purposes.

In 1998 I joined Philips Research, starting with a 2-year education in computational science. I continued investigating various complex systems in the consumer, ambient intelligence, and medical domains as a research scientist and system architect. These systems included: intelligent user interfaces, distribution of multimedia presentations, in-home resource management, broadband services, intelligent homes for elderly care, automatic recognition of human behaviour and personal emergency response services, in particular fall detection.