Extra Curricular

Besides the projects and subjects for the master's, I have done several activities that have been supporting my development.

Student Assistant

Apr. 2020 - May 2022

Supporting Lenneke Kuijer in her work as Assistant Professor for the Future Everyday research cluster.

Expertise areas

Technology and Realization

Creativity and Aesthetics

Design and Research Processes

For more than 2 years, I have been the student assistant of Lenneke Kuijer, supporting her VENI research into futures of summer comfort in Dutch households. Among other things, I created prototypes, explored and created future scenarios, created the visuals for her reports, and processed some of the interviews.

Publications showing my work:

Team HART

March - December 2021

Human Augmentation Research & Technology

Researching beyond regular human senses to become more than human and achieve freedom of experience.

Expertise areas

Business and Entrepreneurship

I have been part of team HART, a new multi-disciplinary student team. We won the TU/e contest in 2021 and were approached en masse by the media. I was part of the marketing team and became responsible for contacting and answering the media.

I was interviewed by Brainport on my role in Team HART, as part of their meet our pioneer articles. link to article

SDG Challenge

March 2020 - June 2020

Representing the TU/e at a national student challenge. Client: RET

Expertise areas

User and Society

Position Paper publication

Sept. 2019

Paper presentation at the wearable computing conference in London.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3341162.3349575

Expertise areas

Design and Research Processes

Dutch Design Week

Presenting Stress reduction in everyday wearables: balanced at the Drivers of Change at the Dutch Design Week.

Expertise areas

Design and Research Processes

Technology and Realisation

Math, Data and Computing

Honours Challenge committee

Jan. - May 2019

Organising the first 4TU challenge for honours students. More than 65 honours students from the four technical universities worked on challenges from ING, Royal Haskoning DHV, Shell and IDH the Sustainable Trade Initiative at Wageningen University and Research (WUR).

Expertise areas

Business and Entrepreneurship