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)