Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
My favorites: bringing people together, strategy, entrepreneurship, leading groups or teams, acquisition of projects and creating proposals for funding by NWO, RvO, Eureka etc including formation of consortia. Integrated solutions like storage, heat, flow, materials, energy conversion, and eventually sensors and semiconductors. Advisor to municipalities for the energy transition. Development of a large scale Energy Storage project. Holder of a patent for an integrated energy buffer system for urban storage. Driven by impact
Project development. How will you get green electricity into the city? Answer: have a large scale battery storage in the city, connected to a substation. Charge this during low hours or when the sun is shining. And provide the electricity during peak hours. And where do we place these containers with batteries? Answer: in a parking garage. Presently we are working on the parking garage of the future. More than 25 students and many TMC engineers have already contributed. We are still open for volunteers!
TMC offers a home to self-starting highly skilled technical professionals who like to be engaged in projects in companies or institutions. For 6.5 years I was a parttime business manager and since March 2021 I started the Novio Energy Storage team in the TMC Entrepreneurial Lab, aiming at bringing Green electricity into the city for use in peak hours.
The exponential increase of complexity in systems, data and networks calls for multidisciplinary fundamental research and proven practices in the synthesis and design of technically advanced systems. The Eindhoven University of Technology therefore established the High Tech Systems Center (HTSC), located at TU/e campus. This ceased to exist Sept 30th 2025. Granted project proposals include TKI-PPS funded project for Disinfection WASPD, ACCESS project for Contamination Control, the successful application for our cryogenic NWO Perspectief program ending the 1st place in 2025, energy projects including the MOOI project BI PV(T), and a large number of company funded projects for the EngD MSD program (Mechatronics Systems Design).
Co-founder of NovioScan BV in 2014, which is a product development company. Sold to Essity on April 1st, 2020. Novioscan BV issued its first product in March 2018 for children with incontinency. Check out the website for the phantastic team!
DTI is a 2-year post-master program to educate young graduates as a Professional Doctorate in Engineering. This program is one of 20 programs which arrange under the 4TU School of Design in the Netherlands. My task was the acquisition of PDEng design projects. The PDEng program has trained about 60 juniors to the level of professional design engineer. My specialties are to give training in design methods, modelling and simulation, entrepreneurship, and I learned how to coach these young engineers effectively, like on project management, communication and self-management. Aside, as teacher in the physics faculty, I invented challenge-based courses for bachelor and master students who worked on cases related to energy, flow, heat and vibrations, RF, optics and other cases from companies.