About the Contributors
Satish Kumar Beella
Satish Kumar Beella holds a master's degree in industrial design from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. Beella's present research activities are mainly based on sustainable transportation innovations. Since 2005, he has been busy with design-based PhD research at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) concerning alternatives for urban car transport and solutions for chain mobility options.
Jan Buijs
Jan Buijs has been for more than 25 years full professor and chair in product innovation and creativity at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) of Delft University of Technology. He was educated as an industrial design engineer (MSc, Delft, 1976), and received his PhD (also at Delft) in 1984. Before working at TU Delft, he spent 10 years as a management consultant.
Marcel Crul
Marcel Crul, MSc and PhD, is research coordinator at the Design for Sustainability Programme, Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology. His research foci are on sustainable product innovation, inclusive design, and sustainable consumption in emerging economies. Currently he works on projects in Southeast Asia and North Africa. He is also involved in several research projects on sustainable living and working in the European Union.
Frank de Bruijn
Frank de Bruijn (PhD, chemical engineering) has been employed at Nedstack since 2010 as chief technology officer. In this position, Frank is responsible for the research and development of new products at NedStack.
Before joining Nedstack, he was responsible for the hydrogen, fuel cell, and CO2 capture development of the Energy Research Center of the Netherlands (ECN). His expertise is in proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) technology, on which he has worked since 1996; on heterogeneous catalysis; and on hydrogen technologies. Currently he is a member of the Grove Committee, which organizes the international Grove Fuel Cell Conference; member of the Dutch Platform Nieuw Gas, a national think tank on the Gas Transition; and member of the advisory board of the scientific journal ChemSusChem. In 2009 he was appointed as a professor of gas conversion technology at Groningen University. He is the author of more than 30 scientific papers and co-inventor of two patents.
André de Boer
André de Boer studied mechanical engineering at the University of Twente, where he specialized in biomedical tribology. In 1979 he joined the department of Anatomy and Biomechanics of the Vrije Universiteit. In 1981 he started his PhD research at the department of Dental Physics at the State University Utrecht. In 1987 he obtained his PhD with the thesis “Mechanical Modeling and Testing of the Human Periodontal Ligament In Vivo.” In 1985 he joined the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) to work on the dynamic behavior and stability of aerospace structures. Later he was involved in projects on thermomechanical analyses of gas turbine components and acoustics. In 1997 he became leader of the Structural Mechanics Group of University of Twente, and in that period he was also involved in the Glare certification program. In 2000 he was appointed professor of applied mechanics at the University of Twente. There he teaches students mechanical engineering and industrial design engineering structural mechanics, and is leader of the Structural Dynamics and Acoustics group at the faculty of Engineering Technology.
Arjan de Winter
Arjan de Winter has a background in mechanical engineering and finished his PhD in 1998 in a cross-over between sustainability and manufacturing. In this context, he spent a year in Japan as a post-doc at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry's (MITI) Mechanical Engineering Laboratory. Intrigued by the creation of new products, he joint Philips Applied Technologies (Apptech) as a consultant for design for manufacturing, focusing on the application of new technologies in new products. One of the early projects he participated in was the development of one of the first liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs. Lighting became a dominant factor when Arjan took up responsibility for Apptech's Lighting department's project portfolio. In 2007 Arjan joint Lighting as a group leader in product design in Lighting's front-end innovation group LightLabs, to actively drive the transition to light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and the consequent digitalization of lighting products. Focus areas so far have been to set up technology strategies, to translate these into product roadmaps, and underpinning development programs for the consumer (home) and professional retail market.
Bart Durlinger
Bart Durlinger started working at the Center for Design of RMIT in 2010. He has completed a master of science in sustainable energy technology and a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering (both from the University of Twente in the Netherlands). Recently he started working at the Center for Design of RMIT in Melbourne in the field of life cycle assessment (LCA). He has worked on LCA studies for several industry sectors, including the (bio)plastics, building, and recycling industries. He has also been involved in development work for the Packaging Impact Quick Evaluation Tool (PIQET). His interests are in the methodological aspects of LCA, its applications in industrial processes and complex systems, renewable energy technologies, and waste management.
Wouter Eggink
Wouter Eggink has been assistant professor at the University of Twente since 2007. He is especially interested in the relationships between design, technology, and society. Besides his research activities, he has taught this subject for a couple of years at the bachelor's and master's programs of Industrial Design Engineering in several courses.
Before Wouter started work at the university, he was employed as a designer and project manager for almost 7 years at D'Andrea & Evers Design, a design agency located in the Netherlands. At this design office he specialized in emotion-related product design, with special attention to the meaning of product design from a user's perspective. Before that, he worked for several years at Hollandse Signaalapparaten (now Thales Netherlands) as a mechanical system design engineer responsible for the styling of sensor systems and command centers for marine vessels. Wouter graduated in 1996 at the Delft University of Technology in industrial design engineering and obtained his PhD in design at the University of Twente in 2011.
Bram Entrop
Bram Entrop (1980) is assistant professor at the department of Construction Management and Engineering of the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands. At this same university he studied civil engineering and management, and graduated in 2004 on the development of a three-step method for sustainable land use: the Trias Toponoma. After his graduation he worked as a self-employed consultant in the field of sustainable building, and he worked at the municipality of Hengelo as a sustainable building inspector. Since 2006 he has worked at the university as a PhD student and subsequently as an assistant professor. His research activities involve the process of adopting and the financial benefits of energy techniques and measures in the built environment. Furthermore, he conducts experimental research on the use of phase change materials in residential real estate in the moderate Dutch climate.
Bas Flipsen
Bas Flipsen is an assistant professor at the Delft University of Technology, faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. In 2010 he finished his PhD research on direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) for small portable electronic devices. He developed a design tool that generates a design of a DMFC hybrid power system for a specific device to evaluate its feasibility compared to the regularly used lithium-ion battery. With his background in aeronautical engineering, he is familiar with mathematical modeling in design. As an industrial design engineer, he recognizes the user's influence on a design's success. Both these qualities are reflected in his work as a researcher and teacher.
Daphne Geelen
Daphne Geelen (MSc, 2006) graduated on the integration of photovoltaic solar cells in consumer products at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of Delft University of Technology. Subsequently she continued in this area in the joint program of the Design for Sustainability program and the 3TU Cartesius Institute. She was involved in establishing a network of public and private actors for photovoltaic solar-powered product development and tutoring several product design projects involving the integration of photovoltaic solar energy in portable consumer products.
Currently she is working on her PhD research at the DUT DfS program concerning the role of social interaction in energy-related consumer behavior, more specifically focusing on the application of social interaction including gaming in product–service system design in the field of local energy production and consumption.
She organizes the Livinggreen Labs and tutors student projects that are carried out in the context of the Livinggreen.eu project.
Johannes Halman
Johannes I.M. Halman is a professor in technology innovation and risk management at the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands. He also holds an endowed Schlumberger chair in Technology and Sustainable Development at the University of the Netherlands Antilles (UNA). He is the scientific director of the master of science program in Risk Management at the University of Twente.
Halman earned an MSc in construction engineering from Delft University of Technology, an MSc (cum laude) in business studies from Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University, and a PhD in technology management from Eindhoven University of Technology. His research interests are in the fields of innovation management, technology entrepreneurship, and risk management. He has advised international firms like Philips Electronics and Unilever on the worldwide implementation of risk management strategies within their innovation processes. Prior to his academic career, Halman worked for several years in practice. As a project manager and senior management consultant, he has initiated and conducted several construction, (re-)organization, and innovation projects. Halman has published about 150 scientific articles, mostly in international refereed scientific journals. He has received different international awards, for both his research work and his education.
He is responsible for research in management of product innovation, creativity, and multidisciplinary design and innovation teams. He teaches strategy, brand and project management, creative problem solving, innovation, and integrated new product development. He is active in both the bachelor program and the Strategic Product Design master program. He has supervised more than 230 graduates and 14 PhDs.
He has published numerous papers and articles as well as three books. His first book, Innovation and Intervention (1984), was awarded best management book of the Netherlands in the year 1985. His latest book, co-authored by Rianne Valkenburg, is Integrated New Product Development, now in its third revised and enlarged version (2005). This book has become the standard book on new product development in the Netherlands.
During the years 1992–1996, he was member of the board of the Netherlands Association of Certified Management Consultants (Ooa). From 2000 to 2007, he was chairman of the European Association for Creativity and Innovation (EACI), a nonprofit organization that stimulates debate and discussion among professionals and academics in the creativity and innovation field. And since 1991 he has been a member of the editorial board of Creativity & Innovation Management published by Blackwell in the United Kingdom.
Arjen Jansen
Arjen Jansen graduated in 1988 at Delft University. He has working experience as both a freelance industrial designer and a design consultant for various international companies. He was appointed assistant professor at Delft's Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering in 1994. Since then, his teaching activities have included design for sustainability, product engineering, mechatronics, and product design with a special focus on (outdoor) sports-related issues. Until 2011, Arjen guided some 75 MSc graduate students in various areas of industrial design engineering. In 2011 he published and defended his PhD thesis, “Human Power Empirically Explored.”
Peter Joore
Peter Joore graduated as an industrial design engineer at the Delft University of Technology. After working as a product designer in industry, he worked as a senior researcher and business consultant at the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO. Here he initiated and coordinated various national and international multidisciplinary innovation projects, applying state-of-the-art technology in the development of radically new products, services, and systems. In parallel he worked on his PhD research with the Design for Sustainability research group at Delft University of Technology. In 2010 he finished his thesis discussing the mutual influence between new products and societal change processes. He currently works as a professor in the area of open innovation at the NHL University of Applied Science in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.
David Keyson
David Keyson heads the program in Sustainable Living and Work at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, and also leads the research focus on Social Contextual Interaction Design as part of the ID Studio Lab. His educational work focuses on interactive technology design in the context of smart products and environments. Prior to joining TU Delft, he worked at Philips Research as a senior research scientist in media interaction and at Xerox in the department of Industrial Design and Human Interface. He holds a PhD from the Technical University of Eindhoven in perception and technology and an MSc in ergonomics from Loughborough University.
Professor Keyson has authored over 100 scientific papers, including papers in presence, ergonomics, applied ergonomics, displays, universal access information society and personal ubiquitous computing. He holds 16 patents relating to input devices and design principles of multimodal user–system interaction.
Stefan Kuhlmann
Stefan Kuhlmann is chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Policy Studies (STePS), a member of the university's Institute for Innovation and Governance Studies (IGS), and leader of the Twente Graduate School program for Governance of Knowledge and Innovation.
He is a political scientist and also studied history (1978, University of Marburg, Germany); in 1986 he received a PhD in political science at University of Kassel, Germany; in 1998 he got a “habilitation” (second doctorate) in political science, also at this university. Since 1979, he has been involved in studies of research and technological innovation as social and political processes – with changing entrance points and perspectives. During the last two decades, he has analyzed science, research and innovation systems, and public policies, focusing on the dynamics of governance. Until the summer to 2006 he was managing director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems Innovation Research (ISI), Germany, and professor of innovation policy analysis at the Copernicus Institute, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Recent research projects include study of “Knowledge Dynamics and ERA Integration” (funded by the EU PRIME Network of Excellence); “Inter-institutional Collaboration in the German Public Research System: Analysis with a Focus on Nanotechnology” and “Governance of International Research Collaboration in Nano S&T in Europe” (funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft); and “The Societal Component of Genomics Research” (with the Department of Innovation Studies, Utrecht University; funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research).
Paul Kühn
Paul Kühn is with the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) in Kassel, Germany, and works in the Department of Energy Economy and Grid Operation. Mr. Kühn joined the institute in 2006 after completing his MSc in energy conversion and management from the University of Applied Sciences, Offenburg. In 2010 he became head of the R&D Group Reliability and Maintenance Strategies at Fraunhofer IWES.
His main research interests are in small wind turbines, and he is currently pursuing a PhD on the subject at Fraunhofer IWES/Kassel University. Other research topics include reliability analysis and maintenance strategies for wind turbines.
Jonas Martens
Jonas R.J. Martens, MSc, graduated in 2010 at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology. He was founder of the SolarBear initiative in 2008 and of Rikkert + Jan design and development in 2010, and he was co-founder of Better Future Factory in 2012, a design thinking collective for social innovation. He has worked with Delft University of Technology, the Lowlands Festival 2012, Studium Generale, and the Leiden municipality.
Alexandre Paternoster
Alexandre Paternoster completed the first 4 years of general science engineering in 2007 at the ENSCPB - Bordeaux, France. In 2008 he received his MSc degree with honors at the composite group of Imperial College London, United Kingdom. In February 2009 he started as a PhD student at the University of Twente, in the Structural Dynamics and Acoustics group under the supervision of Prof. Andre de Boer. He currently investigates actuation systems for morphing concepts in the scope of the Green Rotorcraft project in the framework of the Clean Sky Join Technology Initiative.
Pieter de Jong
Pieter de Jong is a PhD researcher at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, at the Structural Dynamics & Acoustics group. He acquired his MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering at the same university in 2008. He is participating in the Clean Sky project which is investigating the potential for self-powered health monitoring systems within the rotor blades of helicopters. His research concerns power harvesting within the rotor and he has explored a number of possibilities. Mechanical as well as electrical aspects are considered in optimizing the output. He will defend his PhD thesis early 2013.
Nils Reich
Nils Reich graduated from the Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Germany, with a thesis on a photovoltaic–wind–diesel–fuel cell hybrid system in 2003. He received his PhD in 2010 from Utrecht University, the Netherlands, with a thesis on “product-integrated photovoltaic systems.” He now is employed at Fraunhofer ISE, Germany, where he is head of a team conducting PV yield assessments and certification, dealing with large-scale PV power plants.
Joop Schoonman
Joop Schoonman, applied sciences professor of inorganic chemistry at Delft University of Technology, was voted the best Dutch materials scientist of the past 80 years in the Union of Materials Science's “2006 Dutch Masters in Materials” election.
As a chemist, Schoonman's research particularly focuses on sustainable energy, an area in which he applies his expertise in the field of solid-state material chemistry. His research has led to advances in the development of batteries, solar cells, fuel cells, and hydrogen storage. Schoonman has 435 scientific publications to his name.
Schoonman studied chemistry at the University of Utrecht (1967). He obtained his PhD in 1971 and remained at the university as a researcher until 1984, when he became professor of inorganic chemistry at TU Delft. He has served as director of science for the Delft Center for Sustainable Energy since 2002.
Leonard Schürg
Leonard Schürg (MSc, Industrial Design Engineering, Delft) graduated cum laude in 2010. During his studies he founded two companies: Pointtwenty, a surfboard design office, and Numboards, a foam-cutting company. Working on the SolarBear project shifted his interest toward renewable energies, and currently he works at a PV start-up in Germany.
Sacha Silvester
Sacha Silvester pursued his master's degree in industrial design engineering at TU Delft (1972). After that, he worked as a musician at the Theatre Company Diskus and as a research associate at the faculties of Economics and Social Sciences at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He was co-founder of the Erasmus Centre of Environmental Studies (ESM) at the same university. In 1996 he received a PhD in social sciences at the Erasmus University Rotterdam on a series of research projects studying the effects of demonstration projects on the adoption and diffusion of energy-efficient housing in the Netherlands. In 1997 he joined the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering as an associate professor in the Design for Sustainability Program.
Currently he is associate professor at the department of Industrial Design at the same faculty, leading the applied research theme of personal mobility, and is acting chairman and member of the board of D-incert, a nationwide platform for electric mobility.
Valeri Souchkov
Valeri Souchkov has been involved in developing TRIZ and systematic innovation since co-founding the Invention Machine Lab in 1989. He was certified as a TRIZ specialist by the founder of TRIZ, Genrich Altshuller, in 1991.
Valeri started promoting TRIZ and systematic innovation in Western Europe in 1993 when he introduced public and in-house TRIZ training in the Netherlands on a regular basis. In 2000, he co-founded the European TRIZ Association (ETRIA). Currently he is a member of the Executive Board of ETRIA as well as a member of a Global R&D Council of the International TRIZ Association (MATRIZ).
Since 2003, Valeri has headed ICG Training & Consulting in Enschede, the Netherlands, where he trains and assists customers worldwide in TRIZ, systematic innovation, and technology roadmapping. He often speaks at international events and conferences, and is co-author of two books and over 70 publications. He is invited lecturer at the University of Twente and the University of Eindhoven.
Valeri holds an MSc degree in computer science and engineering from Belarus University of Informatics and Electronics.
Michael Thung
Michael Thung (MSc, 1985) studied industrial design engineering at University of Twente. He specialized in design and styling, and became interested in sustainability. Together with four students, he developed and gave a new course about sustainability in product design. Thung concluded his studies with a master's thesis considering PV technologies, innovation, and aesthetics. At present, he is a mechanical engineer in the field of product development.
Roos van Genuchten
Roos van Genuchten (MSc) earned a bachelor's degree in industrial design engineering in Delft, followed by a master's degree in strategic product design at the same faculty. After founding a company in consumer insights, The User's Advocate, during her master's studies and getting experienced in base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) projects in Medellín, Colombia, her thesis research was focused on developing the first market entry strategy for SolarBear for farmers in rural West Bengal in India. Currently she is working as a marketing manager in customer development at the Dutch Telecom company KPN.
Wilfried van Sark
Wilfried van Sark graduated from Utrecht University, the Netherlands, with an MSc in experimental physics in 1985; his MSc thesis was on the measurement and analysis of current–voltage (I–V) characteristics of c-Si cells. He received his PhD from Nijmegen University, the Netherlands, in 1989; the topic of his PhD thesis was III–V solar cell development, modeling, and processing. He then spent 7 years as a post-doc and senior researcher at Utrecht University and specialized in a-Si:H cell analysis and deposition (plasma chemical vapor deposition, both radio frequency and very-high frequency). After an assistant professor position at Nijmegen University, where he worked on III–V solar cells, he returned to Utrecht University with a focus on the (single-molecule) confocal fluorescence microscopy of nanocrystals. In 2002 he moved to his present position as assistant professor and photovoltaics (PV) group leader at the Copernicus Institute at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, where he performs and coordinates research on next-generation PV devices incorporating nanocrystals, for example luminescent solar concentrators, as well as PV performance, product design, life cycle analysis, socioeconomics, and policy development. He is member of the Editorial Board of Elsevier's scientific journal Renewable Energy, and member of various organizing committees of EU, IEEE, and SPIE PV conferences. He is author or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference paper publications and book chapters. He has co-edited three books.
Jeroen Verschelling
Jeroen Verschelling is an entrepreneur with ambitions, ideals, and a pioneering spirit. He is the co-founder and director of Kamworks Ltd. Before moving to Cambodia in 2008, Jeroen consulted renewable energy and energy conservation projects for Ecofys and other organizations like the ECN and UNDP in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Jeroen lived for several years with his family in a 100% solar-powered, passive house of his own design next to the Kamworks design assembly workshop in Cambodia.