Horst Complex

prof.dr.ir. J.R. Buitenweg (Jan)

Full Professor & Chair of department BSS
EEMCS-EE-BSS
Horst Complex ZH213
j.r.buitenweg@utwente.nl
+31534892705
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Jan Reinoud Buitenweg received the M.Sc. degree in ElectricalĀ Engineering withĀ Biomedical specializationĀ from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, in 1998. He received the Ph.D. degree from the same institution in 2001 after studying the electrical behaviour of the interface between cultured neurons and substrate embedded microelectrodes.

Presently, Jan R. Buitenweg is a Full Professor at the University of Twente,Ā Chair of the department Biomedical Signals and SystemsĀ and principal investigator of the track Nociceptive and Somatosensory Processing within this department.

Expertise

  • Medicine and Dentistry

    • Stimulus
    • Spinal Cord Stimulation
    • Patient
    • Pain
    • Threshold Potential

  • Neuroscience

    • Evoked Potential
    • Perception
    • Stroke

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Ancillary activities

  • NociTRACK BVCofounder/owner and statutory director

Jan R. Buitenweg is a Full Professor with the University of Twente and principal investigator of theĀ research themeĀ Nociceptive and Somatosensory Processing of the department of Biomedical Signals and Systems.

TheĀ major objective of thisĀ research theme Nociceptive and Somatosensory Processing is the development of neurotechnological, neurophysiological and psychophysical tools enabling clinical assessment, prevention and treatment of chronic pain disorders.

The research and valorisation projects in this themeĀ focus on three neural engineeringĀ challenges of the chronic pain problem: (1) development of methods for controlled stimulation and conditioning of activity in pain related neural pathways, (2) development of methods for extended quantitative observation of functional changes of nociceptive subsystems and (3) development of mechanism based mathematical models for explaining and predicting experimental and clinical results, based on principles of neurostimulation and neurocomputational insights. All initiatives and activities are strongly driven by translational perspectives on health care innovation, in close collaboration with clinical partners, international industry and university spin-off companies

Publications

2025

Interpretation of subjective ratings within pain research: What about context effects? an induced secondary hyperalgesia example (2025)Medical Hypotheses, 195. Article 111571. Jansen, N., Snijders, M. L. A. H. C. & Buitenweg, J. R.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2025.111571Combined Psychophysical and Neurophysiological Responses to Intra-epidermal Electrical Stimulation: Clinical Explorations in Patients with Chronic Pain (2025)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Berfelo, T.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036564403

2024

Observing nociceptive detection thresholds and evoked potentials in diabetic patients with and without painful neuropathy (2024)Exploration of Neuroscience, 3, 493-507. Berfelo, T., Krabbenbos, I. P., van den Berg, B., Gefferie, S. R. & Buitenweg, J. R.https://doi.org/10.37349/en.2024.00061

2023

Exploring Psychophysical and Neurophysiological Responses to Intra-Epidermal Electrical Stimuli in Patients With Persistent Spinal Pain Syndrome Type 2 with a Spinal Cord Stimulator (2023)In 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Sydney, Australia (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS). IEEE. Berfelo, T., Krabbenbos, I. P., De Beer, M. F. & Buitenweg, J. R.https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC40787.2023.10340377Identification of Diabetic Small-Fiber Neuropathy Based on Electrophysiological and Psychophysical Responses to Intra-Epidermal Electric Stimulation using a NaĆÆve Bayes Classifier (2023)In 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS). IEEE. van den Berg, B., Berfelo, T., Gefferie, S. R., Krabbenbos, I. & Buitenweg, J. R.https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC40787.2023.10340455The Relationship between Nociceptive Detection Thresholds and Pressure-and Electrical Pain Thresholds: An Explorative Study in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients (2023)In 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Sydney, Australia (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS). IEEE. Jansen, N., Berfelo, T., Vonkeman, H. E., ten Klooster, P. M., van den Berg, B., Krabbenbos, I. P. & Buitenweg, J. R.https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC40787.2023.10340755Testā€“Retest Reliability of the Generalized Pain Questionnaire in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Preliminary Reference Values for Non-Clinical and Several Clinical Samples (2023)Journal of pain research, 16, 4127-4137. Jansen, N., ten Klooster, P. M., Vonkeman, H. E. & Buitenweg, J. R.https://doi.org/10.2147/JPR.S430280Further evaluation of inflammatory and non-inflammatory aspects of pain in rheumatoid arthritis patients (2023)Rheumatology advances in practice, 7(3). Article rkad076. Jansen, N., ten Klooster, P. M., Vonkeman, H. E., van den Berg, B. & Buitenweg, J. R.https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkad076Formulation Of The FIRIS-P Professional Core-Competency Framework For Flexible Academic Curricula:The Biomedical Engineering Program (2023)In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI): Engineering Education for Sustainability, Proceedings (pp. 1716-1725). Article 1320. Buitenweg, J. R.https://doi.org/10.21427/EBPD-4X50Visual Support for Electrical Pain Threshold Measurements: Construction and Initial Validation of the QScale (Experiment 2) (2023)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. 4TU.Centre for Research Data. Jansen, N. & Buitenweg, J. R.https://doi.org/10.4121/a1f9f68f-c429-4a46-8b34-75942f49a503

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Courses academic year 2025/2026

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

The research and valorisation projects in this themeĀ focus on three neural engineeringĀ challenges of the chronic pain problem: (1) development of methods for controlled stimulation and conditioning of activity in pain related neural pathways, (2) development of methods for extended quantitative observation of functional changes of nociceptive subsystems and (3) development of mechanism based mathematical models for explaining and predicting experimental and clinical results, based on principles of neurostimulation and neurocomputational insights. All initiatives and activities are strongly driven by translational perspectives on health care innovation, in close collaboration with clinical partners, international industry and university spin-off companies

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