Research Projects

A summary of my ongoing and historical research initiatives bridging foundational mathematics, computational physics, and applied biology.

🌾 Current Key Initiatives

Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
Partners: 12 industrial partners, including the HIP (Holland Innovative Potato) Consortium, Wageningen University and Research (Biometris, Centre for Crop Systems Analysis).
Focus: Developing biology-informed and data-driven mathematical frameworks for genomic prediction/discovery and plant resilience.
Impact: We transform intricate physical datasets into predictive tools to engineer climate-resilient crop varieties through smart breeding models.

Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
Partners: 2 industrial partners (HZPC and Averis Seeds) and Utrecht University (Microbiology).
Focus: Predicting vitality of potato plants from the bio-physical properties of seed tubers.
Impact: Developing a standard germination test for potato, read interview about FtV here

Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
Partner: Thermo Fisher Scientific (formerly FEI Company).
Focus: Formulating self-consistent drift-diffusion-reaction mathematical systems to analyze charge dynamics and trapped potential distributions in insulating, un-coated dielectric specimens.
Impact: Preventing local charging artifacts and image distortions in scanning electron microscopy (SEM).

Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
Focus: Mathematical properties, e.g., spectrum, of the strongly singular integral operator arising in electromagnetic scattering.
Impact: New preconditioner for accelerating numerical solution of scattering problems

Role: PostDoc
Partners: TNO FEL, MoD
Focus: Imaging and effective inversion using electromagnetic field data.
Impact: Improved algorithms for Ground Penetrating Radar and landmine detection