The following things interest me professionally and privately...

• medical informatics with focus on applied and formal ontologies and semantic web technologies for knowledge modeling and representation
• medicine (particularly emergency medicine, pain medicine and neurology) and clinical/biological psychology
• software design and development (at the moment in Java, Groovy and PHP)
• support of open-source software projects (member of Java Community Process (JCP), OW2 (ObjectWeb) and Netbeans)
• computational linguistics and in particular natural language generation (NLG)
• intelligent/multimodal user interfaces, design of (web) user interfaces, graphic and object design as well as architecture
• supervising and tutoring students in my areas of expertise
• listening to all kinds of music (my favorites are Jean-Michel Jarre, Tori Amos and Sting) and creating own little tunes and songs (mostly of the electronic and synthesizer kind)
• sports (especially mountain biking, long distance running and hiking)