"Revealing structure in apparent chaos is what a physicist does. It is what I enjoy doing."

My training as a physicist and my passion for computers shaped my professional life. I taught myself programming in C at the age of 14. Our family computer at home had a big reset button on its front. I knew to hit it blindly as one bold experiment followed the next into failure, not giving up until it finally worked.

At early age I got intrigued by the beauty and complexity of nature. In the local library the astronomy section was my favorite. I explored the wonderful world of fractals using my own developed computer programs.

When I studied physics and astronomy I learned to use computers to study nature. Revealing structure in apparent chaos is what a physicist does. It is what I enjoy doing. Immersing myself in that chaos, playing with it and looking at it from every possible angle.

After graduating and working at the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) for some time I joined the newly formed National High Tech Crime Unit of the Dutch police. Here I worked many high profile international cybercrime investigations. And I took on the challenge to teach computers to look at forensic information the same way I did, and help me connect the dots. This ultimately led to the EDXML specification, yielding a new way for man and machine to join forces.

As a creative thinker I do have a tendency to forget that I am more than just my head. I counter that by doing various forms of yoga as well as acrobatics. When I take someone up into the air, the thinking mind gets some time off.

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