Graduated in Fluid Dynamics at the Department of Physics at the Technical University of Eindhoven, he worked for many years in the building industry in a few hundred projects at the interface of innovation and regulation.
In 2004 he started at TUE as researcher and product developer in projects with industry and switched job after a while inside TUE an became business developer. In 2021 he became senior program manager at the Eindhoven Institute for Renewable Energy Systems.