Management team
dr. Martijn Vastenburg
Founder and managing director
Martijn Vastenburg is founder of ConnectedCare. He has a background as assistant professor at Delft University of Technology. He has coordinated projects in care innovation together with research organizations, companies, care organizations and users. His core expertise is in social tools for care collaboration, persuasive technology, design methodology and sensor-based group awareness. Next to being managing director of ConnectedCare R&D, Martijn is also founder of HalloZorg and senior researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology.
Ilse Bierhoff
Senior R&D
Ilse Bierhoff (MSc) studied human-computer interaction at the Technical University of Eindhoven. Her expertise is applying knowledge from social sciences on problems related to the introduction of new technologies and she has an interest in education. She is an experienced researcher and project manager in national and European (research) projects. She feels comfortable in a role as intermediary between end-users, stakeholders from the care sector, technicians, researchers, and commercial companies. Her drive is to make sure that people can make use of innovations in their day to day life. Via the use of services that have the right mix of technology, personal touch, and fun.
Research & Design team
Janna Alberts
senior eHealth designer
Janna Alberts (MSc) is an industrial designer with a specialization in innovations in healthcare. She works in national and European R&D projects and product development processes. Janna has worked with seniors, caregivers and home care, and knows how to properly address the needs of all stakeholders.
Nicole van Beveren
Junior researcher
Nicole is a MSc student of Human-technology Interaction at the Technical University of Eindhoven. She finished her Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering with a focus on new product development and marketing. For her bachelors project, she investigated the usability and user experience of a new healthcare technology to treat non-healing and chronic wounds. She would love to combine her knowledge about co-creation and user experience into the field of social robotics, to find innovative and user friendly solutions for challenges within the healthcare network.
Jasmijn de Boer
DESIGNER
Jasmijn is a hands-on, user-centred interaction designer with a focus on health and social challenges. She likes to involve the user and experts during the different steps of the design process, by using different methods, such as co-creation sessions, cultural probes and rapid prototyping to evaluate new designs with actual user(s) and their environment. Moreover, she likes a development process that combines psychology with the possibilities of technology.
Suzanne Blokland
Junior researcher
Suzanne finished her bachelor Psychology & Technology at the Technical University of Eindhoven. For her bachelor end project she investigated the effect of talking to a chatbot on people’s loneliness. She now wants to put everything she learned during her study into practice during an internship at Connected Care. Experiencing the whole design process including research, co-creation and evaluations, and learning how to create successful innovations.
Development team
Krunoslav Domić
Software developer
Krunoslav Domić is an experienced full stack developer. He obtained his master of informatics degree from the Faculty of Organization and Informatics at the University of Zagreb. He focuses on commercial developments as well as on R&D projects.
Matej Ivkovčić
Software developer
Matej Ivkovčić is a web developer with experience in developing web applications for various purposes. He obtained his master of computer science degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Zagreb. He likes exploring and learning cutting-edge web-technologies, but also enjoys utilizing older ones when they hold certain advantages.
Business team
Dick-Jan Zijda
Business developer and implementation expert
Dick-Jan (M.A.) is experienced in developing and implementing innovations in the social domain. He knows how to involve and engage all stakeholders in a local setting towards creating successful innovations.