Before starting as an assistant professor at the VU, he was a PostDoc at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Minnesota. He obtained his PhD degree at the VU University Amsterdam in 2007. His main research interest lies on the boundary between AI and health and he has been involved in a variety of EU and nationally funded projects related to that topic. For the EU funded ICT4Depression project, focusing on intelligent support for people suffering from a depression, he was the main coordinator. He has published his work in a range of well-known AI journals and conferences and served on numerous program committees. He is currently a visiting scientist within the Clinical Decision Making group at MIT.