ICT, Strategy and Policy

“When we’re on the right track, great things happen”. The true value of knowledge lies in its practical application, says Alex Sangers. Using mathematical models to solve real-world problems is absolutely fantastic.

Hi I'm Alexander, working on the crucial building block for the digital world of trust: Self Sovereign Identity. Let's enable seamless transfer of data in a privacy preserving manner.

Bastiaan Wissingh is Senior Research Scientist at the Networks department, specialized in new and innovative communication technologies for the Automotive domain like IEEE 802.11p, 3GPP C-V2X and ETSI Geonetworking with PKI. He also has affinity with new networking concepts like Information Centric Networking (ICN), Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) and 5G.

Benny Akesson is a Senior Research Fellow at TNO, where he conducts applied research in projects related to system evolvability and system performance. His research interest include model-based engineering and real-time systems. Since 2019, he is a Professor by Special Appointment at the University of Amsterdam, where he holds the Chair of Design Methodologies for Cyber-physical systems.

Gaia-X is only one of the European initiatives on the topics of Data & Cloud. If you want to know more about what is happening in these domains and who you should contact for more information feel free to contact me first.

Christopher Brewster is a Senior Scientist in the Data Science group and Professor of the Application of Emerging Technologies in the Institute of Data Science, Maastricht University. His research has focussed on the application of Semantic Technologies, Open and Linked Data, interoperability architectures and Data Governance, mostly to the food and agriculture domains.

Claire Stolwijk is Principal Consultant in the Strategy & Policy department, focussing on digitalisation of the manufacturing industry, digital sovereignty, data spaces and industrial innovation policy. She combines her scientific work with a practical approach and coordinates various national and European projects on these topics.

Daniël Worm is senior consultant at the Applied Cryptography & Quantum Algorithms department, specialized in Privacy Enhancing Technologies like Secure Multi-Party Computation and Federated Learning.