Freek joined TNO in 2003 and has had several positions there in various application domains, having worked on redesigning business processes for large organizations, and innovation management primarily for SMEs. He has been coordinating the TNO research on Big Data a number of years and he is now a senior Consultant and Project Manager at the Data Science department. He has set up, contributed to and coordinated a number of EU R&I projects.
Currently Freek is focusing on applications of AI in safety and security, for instance in the H2020 TITANIUM project. He also leads a large internal Integration Flagship project within TNO on Trustworthy AI. His main interest is the interplay between technology, and ELSE (ethical, legal, social, economic) aspects, leading him to put emphasis on explainable AI and related issues; a topic that he also works on in his role as taskforce lead in the Big Data Value Association.