Who
Antea Group
Dirkjan Krijnders holds a MA (2003) in applied physics and a Ph.D. in the Natural Sciences (2009) from Groningen University. His specialization is sound event recognition and classification in open environments. During his Ph.D. period, his focus was on the early detection of verbal aggression in public space using techniques from computational auditory scene analysis and newly developed signal processing techniques for low signal to noise ratio signals. After his Ph.D., he broadened his work by aiming to recognize environments and sources in urban environments in general. Since early 2017 he works for Antea Group coordinating the monitoring project infrastructure and the adaptation of the Phoenix floats to the market.
Erik Duisterwinkel graduated his MSc. in Applied Physics cum laude at the University of Groningen in 2011, he then proposed his own PhD research and received funding to study a novel swarm-based sensor inspection system for enclosed environments. The research later became part of a larger research project funded by FET-open from EU’s Horizon 2020: Phoenix.
Currently he works as advisor on applying sensor technology and data analysis at consulting and engineering firm Antea Group.
Erik has a broad interest and easily picks up on new topics and skills. He can transform academic and specialist knowledge to specific real-world challenges and can connect people and ideas from different disciplines, backgrounds and ranks.
Aad Kant has more than 30 years of professional experience in the field of soil and groundwater contamination, clean-up action plans, remediation, soil protection measures, EIA-studies, advice and development of landfill sites and engineering activities for onshore drilling sites.
Since 1984 Aad Kant has been working with varying projects all with relation to the environment for private as well as public clients. Aad Kant has been involved in the Dutch E&P Industry for over 30 years and supports all major oil & gas companies active in The Netherlands by providing environmental services for both their onshore and offshore operations. His focus is consulting, engineering and contracting management. Furthermore he frequently guides new operators through the environmental, safety and spatial planning legislation in The Netherlands. Aad Kant is also the Account Manager for the Framework Agreements with the major oil & gas companies in The Netherlands; NAM (shareholders Shell and ExxonMobil), Wintershall Noordzee, Oranje-Nassau Energie and Petrogas E&P Netherlands. Aad Kant is also involved in soil protection programs for all kinds of industrial activities, based on a sustainable soil use and maintenance of the soil quality, by carrying out soil risk analyses. He is a board member of NIBV (Netherlands Information Centre of Soil Protecting Constructions) and SIKB (a network, encompassing both the private and the public sector, set up to continuously and structurally enhance the standards of activities relating to soil management in The Netherlands).
TU Eindhoven
Peter Baltus is a Full Professor and Chair of the Mixed-Signal Microelectronics group in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His key area of expertise is high frequency integrated circuit and system design. Other areas of expertise in the area of analog design include transceiver systems architecture analysis and design as well as RF and analog circuit design. Peter is particularly interested in design methods for very low power transceivers at high frequencies and prefers working on unusual and long-term real-world problems. Recent research projects include low latency, high reliability wireless transceivers, efficient wideband beamforming, wireless power transfer at mm-wave frequencies for truly monolithic sensors, and exploration of unknown environments through sensor swarms.
