Materials selection & Failure analysis.I help a diverse array of companies to tackle various types of materials related problems they may run into. I mainly perform Failure Analysis and I help out with Materials Selection. I prefer to be able to ask my own questions and to personally perform physical investigation and analysis in-house. However, I will assist in analysis of existing data (e.g. process history data) if they are available. Clients of infoMateria operate nationally and internationally in mining, shipping, dairy, agro-industry, food production, fabrication, maintenance and so on.

Designed QMS for Materials Testing Veendam to obtain ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation (L647) in september 2019. Succesfully passed the yearly RvA audits since.

Together with Bob Planque I set up an on-line bird sound archive in 2005 that is now one of the largest bird sound collections in the world and is hosted on the servers of Naturalis Biodiversity Center, the Dutch Natural History Museum. The collection is well-known worldwide and used by the general public, bird lovers and scientists alike in all kinds of ways. One area where it has been especially influential and important is in automatic recognition of bird sounds. Records are shared on GBIF. In november 2022 Google Scholar turned up 3700+ papers that cited xeno-canto. In 2022 we welcomed Orthoptera sounds as well, and are now on the way to realise one of our earliest ideas: to host sounds of all sound producing animals.