Marcel Bijlsma (1967) holds a PhD in physics. Since 1999 he is working at Novay (Telematica Institute) in various positions.  Before (2002-2006), Marcel was the program manager of the Metis project. A large public-private research initiative on knowledge management and smart organisations.

Currently Marcel is project manager of the Future Workspaces project. Next to that he is group leader within Novay of the expertise group Interacting People. This group researches why and how people communicate, collaborate and exchange knowledge and what role ICT can play here from a socio-technological user experience oriented viewpoint .

His research interests cover the impact of new ways of working on professionals and knowledge-intense organisations.

Tom Broens has a master’s degree in Telematics, which deals with the communication between computer systems (MSc 2004).  Soon after that, he joined the University of Twente as a researcher and developed his PhD thesis called “Dynamic Context Bindings: Infrastructural support for context-aware applications (2008). He is an expert in computer middleware and context-awareness. In the future workspaces project he researches how context-awareness influences the future working environments, especially in the context of the the nomadic worker.

Ruud has a background in biomedical electrical engineering (M.Sc. in 1994) and in visual perception (Ph.D. in 1999). He first worked in an industrial R&D department as an expert on personal information management before he came to Novay in 2005.

Within Future Workspaces his interests lie in how developments in ICT shape and support new ways of working for knowledge workers. He prefers to use qualitative research methods (contextual interviews, focus group sessions) and design methods that rely on a strong involvement of the target user group (user centered design, in-situ evaluations).

Geke is a researcher with a background in Industrial Design (MSc 2003). She obtained a PhD from Delft University of Technology on research on multisensory perception and surprise. Within Future Workspaces she mainly focuses on creating and evaluating new concepts. These concepts are aimed at inspiring professionals and creating awareness on possibilities or alternatives for ways of working.