A new position within R&D, giving scientific and technical support to customers and within Kipp & Zonen. I will be the Kipp & Zonen representative in the scientific community, giving input and also being triggered with new ideas for novel applications, new instruments or improved reference standards.Responsible for the Atmospheric science instruments. This includes the Brewer spectrometer, and maintaining the high quality of the instrument as an ozone and UV reference worldwide. Also the… Show more A new position within R&D, giving scientific and technical support to customers and within Kipp & Zonen. I will be the Kipp & Zonen representative in the scientific community, giving input and also being triggered with new ideas for novel applications, new instruments or improved reference standards.Responsible for the Atmospheric science instruments. This includes the Brewer spectrometer, and maintaining the high quality of the instrument as an ozone and UV reference worldwide. Also the Large Aperture Scintilometer (LAS), and setting up a reference instrument for improved LAS calibration. This will be measuring from the highest rooftop of TU Delft around 1 km away, and give some insight into the urban heat island effect above Delft, by measuring evaporation and heat fluxes. Show less

Supporting the optical design and development of a new product to bring it in to mass production. Researching new product lines.

Operation and automisation of the Raman LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) system Caeli, and development of a UV polychromator for temperature profiles though the atmosphere.

The multi-wavelength raman LIDAR system, Caeli, is a replacement and improvement to the RIVM boundary layer LIDAR currently stationed at Cabauw and it will make simultaneous measurement of vertical profiles of the water vapor mixing ratio, aerosol and cloud properties. The system is mounted in a sea container and will run automatically and continuously, day and night, contributing measurements to the European LIDAR network, EARLINET, and intercomparisons with the satellite Calipso. My main… Show more The multi-wavelength raman LIDAR system, Caeli, is a replacement and improvement to the RIVM boundary layer LIDAR currently stationed at Cabauw and it will make simultaneous measurement of vertical profiles of the water vapor mixing ratio, aerosol and cloud properties. The system is mounted in a sea container and will run automatically and continuously, day and night, contributing measurements to the European LIDAR network, EARLINET, and intercomparisons with the satellite Calipso. My main responsibilities have been development of the instrument hardware, including optical design, testing, measurements, and development of the LabVIEW operating software to allow the instrument to operate automatically in a transportable sea container. Show less

STW project: Airborne observations of solar radiation in shallow cumulus clouds.The Directional Radiance Distribution Measurement (DIRAM) device was designed and built to determine the angular distribution of shortwave radiance as a function of height in cloudy and clear-sky conditions at various surface albedos. The construction contains 42 sensors, consisting of a collimation system and a detector, which are mounted in two domes (21 in each). The domes can be placed at ground level, or on… Show more STW project: Airborne observations of solar radiation in shallow cumulus clouds.The Directional Radiance Distribution Measurement (DIRAM) device was designed and built to determine the angular distribution of shortwave radiance as a function of height in cloudy and clear-sky conditions at various surface albedos. The construction contains 42 sensors, consisting of a collimation system and a detector, which are mounted in two domes (21 in each). The domes can be placed at ground level, or on top and below a research aircraft Show less

Completion of a 4 channel tunable diode laser to be flown on an aircraft.

Plasma Physics Group.MAGPIE (Mega Ampere Generator for Plasma Implosion Experiments) Project, a 2 Terrawatt dense Z-pinch generator. The investigation of plasmas, ionised matter, in extreme conditions, hotter and denser than the centre of the sun, by imploding fibres of carbon, CD2 or cryogenic hydrogen.