Oskar van Deventer
Dr Oskar van Deventer is Chair of CEN-CENELEC JTC 22, the European standardisation committee on Quantum Technologies. He is an inventor and standardisation expert and holds a PhD in optical networking.
Oskar has held leading roles in European collaborative projects, such as QUCATS (Quantum Flagship), HBB-Next and eSSIF-Lab. He has actively contributed to various international standardisation organisations (CEN-CENELEC, IEC, ISO, ITU, ETSI, MPEG, HbbTV, DVB, Hyperledger, W3C, Sovrin, OpenSSI, ToIP, DIF, ...), often in an initiating and driving role. He is the author of a book, hundreds of publications, more than 100 patent applications, over 1,000 standardisation contributions, and he holds a Guinness World Record.
Key publications
- Oskar van Deventer + 100 co-auteurs, “Standardization Roadmap on Quantum Technologies - Release 1.1”, publication of CEN-CENELEC JTC22 on Quantum Technologies, June 2025, https://www.cencenelec.eu/media/CEN-CENELEC/AreasOfWork/CEN-CENELEC_Topics/Quantum%20technologies/Documentation%20and%20Materials/fgqt_q06_standardizationroadmapquantumtechnologies_release1-1.pdf
- Alex Preukschat, Drummond Reed, Oskar van Deventer, Rieks Joosten et al, “Self-Sovereign Identity - Decentralized Digital Identity and Verifiable Credentials”, Manning Publications, December 2019, https://www.manning.com/books/self-sovereign-identity
- Oskar van Deventer, Michael Probst, Christoph Ziegler, “Media Synchronisation for Television Services Through HbbTV”, chapter 18 of book “MediaSync - Handbook on Multimedia Synchronization”, editors Mario Montagud, Pablo Cesar, Fernando Boronat, Jack Jansen, pages 505-544, 2018, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-65840-7
- Oskar van Deventer: "Fundamentals of bidirectional transmission over a single optical fibre", Solid-state science and technology library, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, ISBN 0-7923-3613-5, 1996, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-009-1579-4
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