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Researchers at Almende range from senior researchers to PhD researchers to (under)graduate interns. Almende operates under the direction of Hans Abbink and Peet van Tooren. A permanent staff provides research administration, computational and library resources, and publications and development support.


Hans Abbink, CEO & Founder

Combining insights of human psychology, econometrics and evolution theory, Hans Abbink loves to provoke new ways of thinking. Hans is an experienced business leader and a true innovator. His straight forward analyses, fresh thoughts and new ideas engage organizations in exploring their limitless possibilities.

 


Peet van Tooren, CTO & Founder

Information theory, linguistics and artificial intelligence (genetic algorithms, neural networks, natural language) are just some of the fields that Peet van Tooren masters. Being the driving force in Almende's Research & Development programmes, Peet is the first to translate academic concepts to the benefit and the language of partners and customers.

 

Research

>> Icon personal page Alfons Salden, Senior Researcher 

>> Personal Page Andries Stam Andries Stam, Researcher

>> icon personal page Anne van Rossum, Researcher

>>  Vasiliki Georgiadou, Researcher

>>  Freek van Polen, Junior Researcher

>>  Ted Schmidt, Junior Researcher 

>>  Steven Mulder, Junior Researcher

>> personal page icon Duco Ferro, PhD Researcher

>> icon personal page Xiaoyu Mao, PhD Researcher

>>  Yixin Lu, PhD Researcher 

Christian Detweiler, PhD Researcher

>> Personal page Joris Scharpff Joris Scharpff, PhD Researcher

>>  Andrei Rusu, Research Intern

>>  Chen Wang, Research Intern 

>>  Vijeth Rai, Research Intern 

>> icon personal page Frans de Weijer, Research Intern (BSc)

 

Staff 

Jan Geert van Hall, Financial Director

Jan Peter Larsen, Research Manager  

Judith Engelsman, Human Resource Management

Iris Meerts, Managing Consultant

Janny Ramakers, Communications Manager

Jorien Kleijwegt, Consultant Project Funding

Emine Tokul, Administrative Assistant

Kees Klop, Senior Developer

Jos de Jong, Developer 

Stefan Kroon, System Architect

 

Latest News
August 2010
CREDO project successfully concluded
The CREDO project officially ended in December 2009 and underwent its final review in Brussels last March. However, Almende officiously celebrated the conclusion of the project this month with a Research....
August 2010
“Designing Robot Metamorphosis” Paper Accepted to BNAIC 2010
Anne van Rossum’s paper entitled “Designing Robot Metamorphosis” has been accepted to the 22nd Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2010). Van Rossum, Almende’s robotics-expert,....
August 2010
SUPPORT starts implementation @ Peeman Transport
The SUPPORT project takes its first steps towards implementation. This week, Stefan Kroon from Almende and Sjoerd Sommen from daughter company DEAL Services visit Peeman Transport Company to start....