Bennie Smit

System Architect at VDL Enabling Technologies Group (ETG)

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands

About

I am a Senior Research Engineer with a solid background in applied physics and in the research and development of high-tech instrumentation. My main interests include X-ray guns, electron beam diagnostics, optics and medical physics.

Experience

  • System Architect at VDL Enabling Technologies Group (ETG)
    Nov 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

  • NIKON METROLOGY (Tring, United Kingdom)
    • Senior Researcher
      Feb 2019 - Apr 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Senior Research Engineer for X-ray gun development and novel X-ray techniques.

    • Project Lead
      Feb 2018 - Feb 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

    • System Integration Engineer
      Jun 2016 - Feb 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Scientist at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
    Jul 2014 - May 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Research and design of vacuum, magnet and electron beam diagnostics sections of the FLUTE (Ferninfrarot Linac- Und Test Experiment) linear accelerator.

  • PhD Student at Paul Scherrer Institut PSI
    Dec 2010 - Jul 2014 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    Thesis: ‘Analysis of Femtosecond Electron Bunches at the SwissFEL Injector Test Facility’. Development of a framework to measure electron beam bunch length in a linear accelerator using both a transverse deflecting cavity and a spectral method which collected optical transition radiation.

  • MSc Student at University of Aberdeen
    Jun 2010 - Aug 2010 · 3 mos

    Field margins in prostate radiotherapy: Statistically determined target localisation and field margins for treatment.