He holds a Master degree in Telecommunication Engineering and a II Level Master degree in Software Technologies. Since 2007 he has joined the R&D Information and Infrastructure department of the KNMI and the Orfeus Data Centre where he is responsible for the IT developments related to EU projects. His expertise and interests span across data management, distributed systems, workflow engines, data and metadata standards, interoperability, data intensive computing and big data. He is member of the EIDA Technical Committee and co-chair of the EPOS-PP WG7. In the last years he has been actively involved in a number of EU projects working on innovative solutions supporting science and research: NERIES, NERA, VERCE, EPOS-PP, ENVRI, COOPEUS, ADMIRE.