Profile
Dutch engineer with an MSc in Urban Technology. Offshore wind R&D, urban waste systems, heat mitigation, and currently rebuilding an educational eco-farm in Uruguay! The thread through all of it: how do you design systems that hold up under pressure in the places that need them most? Building towards an in the field career in climate-vulnerable regions via the Netherlands JPO Programme.
Experience
Educational eco-farm outside Montevideo delivering hands-on sustainability education through working demonstrations of experimental agriculture systems. Joined months after a December 2025 fire to contribute to the full rebuild of the farm's learning centre and food production infrastructure.
- Built and installed aquaponics, hydroponics, and aeroponics systems operating on a fully closed water loop — fish waste converted by bacteria into plant nutrients, water recycled indefinitely
- Built the mushroom cultivation space from foundation through to installation
- Construction works: structural steelwork from recycled metal pipe, concrete and masonry, roofing, plumbing and electrical
- Planted ground cover between surviving trees to reduce moisture loss and support forest recovery after the fire
- All work conducted in Spanish within small international teams under local leadership
Commissioned research into why urban pergolas — recommended in academic literature as an effective urban heat mitigation tool — remain almost entirely absent from Dutch public spaces. Conducted on behalf of the Climate Resilient City research group at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
- Designed and conducted brainstorm sessions, municipal stakeholder interviews, and focus groups to map implementation barriers across Dutch G4 cities
- Identified that rejection of pergolas by municipalities was driven primarily by internal coordination failures, maintenance complexity, and aesthetic concerns — not technical ineffectiveness
- Reframed identified barriers as design opportunities, producing three concrete opportunity scenarios for context-specific pergola implementation
- Delivered advisory report and case study analysis to municipal decision-makers and the commissioning research group
Five-person student consultancy commissioned to redesign a major shopping centre in Amsterdam Noord based on climate adaptation and wellbeing KPIs. Focus areas: heat mitigation, water management, and social cohesion. Led the water management workstream.
- Conducted field observations during heavy rainfall, photographing water buildup patterns across the entire district to map drainage failures
- Used field data combined with national climate scenarios to calculate hydraulic stress tests and determine optimal locations and sizing for proposed water management measures
- Presented findings and integrated redesign proposals to fellow students, professors, Amsterdam municipality representatives, and consultants from Arcadis
Ten-person student consultancy commissioned to develop a business case for an on-site waste disposal and value retention facility. Proposed splitting the group into three specialist workstreams and led the value retention track.
- Analysed the mixed waste stream to calculate recoverable value through better sorting and material separation
- Mapped circular loop opportunities at local scale: reusing coffee grounds, producing on-site biofuel for heating, capturing carbon from composting
- Used OpenLCA to calculate CO₂-equivalent impact of proposed implementations
- Built an interactive dashboard allowing stakeholders to model CO₂ and cost impact of different implementation scenarios
Technical engineering consultancy delivering project-based work across two client sectors.
- Designed a modular cooling system for large-scale datacenters using CAD modelling — project had global deployment scope
- Created factory layouts for a market-leading construction vehicle manufacturer
- Translated client briefs into detailed engineering outputs within project teams
Intensive multidisciplinary minor on offshore energy systems. Part of the core calculation team for offshore wind farm design on decommissioned platform G14-B — turbine configurations, buoyancy, wave forces, energy output. Also designed a hydrogen production system using PEM electrolysers, osmosis chambers, and staged compression for subsea storage and pipeline transport.
Bachelor thesis at a specialist silo and storage manufacturer. Advised on CNC milling machine acquisition: spindle power calculations, big data analysis of 400+ machines, market trend projections, break-even analysis (~17 years) — leading to recommendation against purchase and toward an alternative solution.
Mushroom cultivation startup. Developed sensor systems to measure and monitor humidity, CO₂ levels, light intensity and duration. Developed actuator systems to control the growing environment in response to sensor readings. Prototyped with Arduino; applied Siemens PLC for control system development.
Fast-growing scaleup producing high-end home training equipment. Designed the production line for a new facility: detailed time-and-motion analysis, balanced cycle times for dedicated assembly stations, lean manufacturing principles from the Toyota Production System. Part of the production line design remains in use today.
International backpacker hostel. Hosted and organised recurring events for 10–30 guests. Led pub crawls and walking tours through Amsterdam. Managed bar operations alongside event responsibilities.
One of Amsterdam's largest restaurants. Progressed from runner to full table service and independently managing the café section (up to 50 covers). Returned repeatedly across seven years including every Christmas season. Known among management for effective onboarding of new staff.
Long-term club member from age 6 to 19. Co-coached a team of 7 and 8 year olds — self-taught, focused on fun and inclusion. Member of the events and parties commission, organising social events to build community cohesion.
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Competitions & awards
Two-day international hackathon bringing together ~30 students from Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Lisbon to develop solutions for real circular economy challenges in the Rhine-Main region.
- Developed the winning concept: a gamified recycling app combining education, competition, and personalised performance tracking to drive citizen participation in waste separation
- Played a key role in keeping the multidisciplinary international team aligned across significant cultural and communication differences
- Winning solution selected for inclusion in U!REKA's 500 Solutions programme
Student brainstorm competition presented to a panel including Retailagenda, Q&A Insights, INretail, the Municipality of The Hague, and The Hague University of Applied Sciences.
- Winning concept: introducing greenery into city centres to create calmer, more inviting retail environments — addressing a liveability gap that online retail cannot fill