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.
Natasja Ryova
Creative Strategist and Project Manager
Natasja Ryova (MSc) studied economics, business communication and digital media design at Tilburg University. She has expertise in designing innovative digital, collaboration and business intelligence tools, user interfaces and software development. Her core motivation is to create impactful solutions that make people’s lives easier and more rewarding, despite possible health restrictions.
Judith de Koning
Junior Designer
Judith de Koning (MSc) is a human-centered designer and design researcher with a focus on social innovation. She involves users in every step of the design process by using different methods such as co-creation, contextmapping and prototyping and translates user needs and wishes into new products that have a positive impact on their lives.
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.
Famke van Meurs
Junior Researcher
Famke is a MSc student of Industrial Design Engineering at the University of Twente. She has a bachelor degree in Creative Technology and is focussing her master studies on the Human-Technology relation. She likes to use her knowledge about user research, design, and prototyping to create an innovative product, optimised for the user.
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.
Harold van de Vijver
Senior architect
Harold joined ConnectedCare in order to make the company a key player in healthcare innovation. Harold has a passion for disruptive innovations that improve a person’s life, as well as the society’s wellbeing and its market. Harold gets its energy from customer satisfaction, innovation, building concrete solutions, and change management. He has a background in healthcare and IT, and is experienced in design&implementation of innovative technical and social innovative solutions. Moreover, he has been involved in several successful start-ups.
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.