People

Prof. Wilco Hazeleger

Wilco serves as director of the Netherlands eScience Center, connecting ICT (big data, computational science) with applications in scientific domains. Wilco also has a chair in Climate Dynamics at Wageningen University.

Dr. Aletta Debernardi

As Director Operations she is responsible for all financial and legal matters at the eScience Center, the administrative processes around our project portfolio, housing and office IT, and human resource management.

Prof. Rob van Nieuwpoort

Rob is responsible for eScience Technology development in all projects, project leader of our eScience technology platform, and manager of the eScience engineers.

Dr. Frank Seinstra

Frank supervises the development, implementation, and research of innovative eScience solutions in multidisciplinary research projects. He is a strong advocate of applying (and re-using) the latest results of state-of-the-art ICT research in large-scale compute- and data-intensive problems in various scientific research areas.

Dr. Romulo Gonçalves

Romulo is the Tech Lead for Data Management. He is responsible to foresee which technological directions on optimized data handling NLeSC should follow to enable Space, Earth and Life Sciences short- and long- term research agendas.

Dr. Jason Maassen

Jason is interested in topics related to large scale distributed computing. At the Netherlands eScience Center he works on climate research projects.

Dr. Elena Ranguelova

Elena is specialized in image processing, and works as an eScience Engineer on medical imaging and other multidisciplinary projects.

Dr. Nicolas Renaud

Dr. Adriënne Mendrik

Dr. Rena Bakhshi

Dr. Ben van Werkhoven

Within the Netherlands eScience Center Ben is involved in several projects in which he is responsible for accelerating scientific applications targeting GPU-clusters.

Dr. Jisk Attema

Jisk works as an eScience engineer on the Summer in the City project and is eScience coordinator for the humanities projects.

Dr. Lars Ridder

Lars’ research interests cover (bio)chemical informatics and simulations. He is responsible as engineer and project coordinator for multiple projects in the life-sciences and chemistry domains.

Jaro Camphuijsen

Dr. Souley Madougou

Dr. Meiert Grootes

Merijn Verstraaten, MSc

Dr. Maria Chertova

Dr. Adithya Vijaykumar

Dr. Florian Huber

Pushpanjali Pawar, MSc

Dr. Evert Rol

Stijn Heldens, MSc

Dr. Inti Pelupessy

Valentina Maccatrozzo, MSc

Dr. Ben de Vries

Dr. Felipe Zapata

Laurens Bogaardt, MPhil

Dr. Yifat Dzigan

Bouwe Andela, MSc

Tom Klaver, MSc

Yang Liu, MSc

Faruk Diblen, MSc

Dr. Gijs van den Oord

Dafne van Kuppevelt, MSc

Dr. Berend Weel

Lourens Veen, MSc

Dr. Arnold Kuzniar

In 2015 Arnold joined the Netherlands eScience Center where he works on the application of semantic web technologies on biomedical data integration and knowledge discovery.

Dr. Vincent van Hees

Vincent is specialized in analytical methods for life science projects.

Dr. Ronald van Haren

Ronald studied aerospace engineering and is specialized in data analysis, remote sensing and Earth systems.

Dr. Willem van Hage

Willem´s main research topics in the past 10 years are semantics, augmented sense making, visual analytics, information integration, and text mining.

Johan Hidding, MSc

Johan studied astrophysics at the University of Groningen

Dr. Erik Tjong Kim Sang

Dr. Alessio Sclocco

Stefan Verhoeven, BSc

Stefan is specialized in software development for life science projects.

Dr. Niels Drost

Niels works on the water management project as well as general eScience infrastructure. Niels is also part-time guest researcher at the Leiden Observatory, where he applies distributed computing techniques to the AMUSE computational astronomy simulation framework.

Maarten van Meersbergen, MSc

Maarten is a core team eScience Engineer, where he focuses on visualization.

Jurriaan Spaaks, MSc

Jurriaan’s main responsibility as an eScience engineer is the implementation of inverse modeling algorithms such as DREAM, SCEM-UA, and SODA on cluster computers while improving the usability of these algorithms in the cluster environment.

Dr. Janneke van der Zwaan

Janneke works as an eScience Research Engineer on the Texcavator and From Sentiment Mining to Mining Embodied Emotions projects.

Christiaan Meijer, MSc

Christiaan's specialties include machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision and reinforcement learning.

Dr. Carlos Martinez-Ortiz

Carlos works as an eScience engineer on various Digital Humanities projects.

Dr. Patrick Bos

Patrick works as eScience Research Engineer on Digital Humanities and Physics projects, specializing in data mining and high performance optimization.

Dr. Sonja Georgievska

Sonja joined NLeSC in May 2015. She is an eScience Research Engineer on the project Massive Biological Data Clustering, Reporting and Visualization Tools.

Dr. Hanno Spreeuw

drs. Mariëtte van der Zande

Prem Rajaram

Kim-Anh Holthaus, MSc

Dr. Tom Bakker

Noura Saïdi

Karima El-Hadji

Sacha van Breugel

Sacha is a Senior Secretary at the Netherlands eScience Center. She also acts as communications assistant and is responsible for the organization of eScience events.

Dr. Patrick Aerts

Patrick is responsible for the Netherlands eScience Center added value, business, and other external contacts. He is also a member of several international (mainly European) advisory bodies and boards of e-infrastructures and organizations.