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prof.dr.ir. P.H. Veltink (Peter)

Full Professor
EEMCS-EE-BSS
Citadel H402
p.h.veltink@utwente.nl
+31534892765
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Peter H. Veltink is professor of technology for the restoration of human function at the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands. He is affiliated with the Biomedical Signals and Systems Group of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS).

Since February 2026, prof. Veltink is interim Scientific Director of the Digital Society Institute of the University of Twente 

Peter Veltink was born in 1960 in Groenlo, the Netherlands. He studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Twente (M.Sc. cum laude 1984), where he also performed his Ph.D. research in the area of electrical nerve stimulation (Ph.D. 1988). He performed sabbaticals at Case Western Reserve University in 1989 and at the Sensory Motor Interaction center (SMI) of the University of Aalborg in 1998.

 

His research is in the following areas:

Biomechatronics, artificial motor control, ambulatory sensing of human motor control, specifically ambulatory movement and force sensing, with applications in rehabilitation medicine and biomechanics.

Neural engineering: neurostimulation for neuromodulation, including DBS, neurocardiology, stimulation of spinal cord and cortex for suppression of pain.

 

Prof. Veltink has been the scientific coordinator of 3 EU research training networks between 1996 and 2004 (ARNESCO, NEUROS and neuralPRO), has coordinated the EU-FP7 ICT project INTERACTION (2011-2014) and the EU-H2020 ICT project eNHANCE. In addition, he participates in the EU-H2020 IC projects SoftPro and Siena, and is associate partner in the current  EU Marie Curie project KneeMo. Nationally, he coordinates and has coordinated several STW projects, including PowerSensor and MiniSens, and participates in two STW Perspectief Programs (Symbionics and neuroCIMT).

 

He has (co)supervised 42 and is currently (co)supervising 7 Ph.D. students.

His H-index is 62 (Google Scholar).

 

Prof. Veltink has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions of Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering until 2014 and reviewer for many scientific journals. He is the (co)author of over 140 peer reviewed journal papers and many peer-reviewed conference papers.

He has been the treasurer of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society (IFESS) from 1996 to 2001, and has been the chairman of the Benelux IEEE-EMBS chapter from 2005 to 2013. Prof. Veltink received the Royal Shell Stimulating Prize for his contribution to the rehabilitation-engineering field in 1997 and the Decade of Partnership Award from the company Xsens in 2010. He has been appointed Adjunct Professor at the Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, in 2015

 

Publications and citations in Google Scholar:

Peter Veltink - Google Scholar Citations

( https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hfTE7y0AAAAJ&hl=en%5C )

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2026

Cross-View Attention Fusion Net: A Prior-Guided Dual-View Representation Learning for Cardiac Output Estimation from Short-Term PPG Signals (2026)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Zhang, Y., Cui, B., Fresiello, L., Veltink, P. H., Donker, D. W. & Wang, Y.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.19666Assessing the usability of the angular momentum method for estimating whole-body inertia in humans: A case study (2026)Medical engineering & physics, 147(4). Haitjema, A., Zhang, J., van Beijnum, B.-J. F., Veltink, P. H., Reenalda, J. & Wouda, F.https://doi.org/10.1088/1873-4030/ae52faPhysiological-model-based neural network for modeling the metabolic–heart rate relationship during physical activities (2026)Computer methods and programs in biomedicine, 277. Article 109240. Zhang, Y., Fresiello, L., Veltink, P. H., Donker, D. W. & Wang, Y.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2026.109240

2025

From impact to action: An inverse dynamics approach for estimating total ankle forces in outdoor running using inertial sensors (2025)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. van Middelaar, R. P.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036569965PMB-NN: Physiology-Centred Hybrid AI for Personalized Hemodynamic Monitoring from Photoplethysmography (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Zhang, Y., Fresiello, L., Veltink, P. H., Donker, D. W. & Wang, Y.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.10745A Physiological-Model-Based Neural Network Framework for Blood Pressure Estimation from Photoplethysmography Signals (2025)In 2025 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (Proceedings Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC); Vol. 2025). IEEE. Zhang, Y., Fresiello, L., Veltink, P. H., Donker, D. W. & Wang, Y.https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC58623.2025.11251595Accelerometry-based Energy Expenditure Estimation During Activities of Daily Living: A Comparison Among Different Accelerometer Compositions (2025)In 2025 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2025 - Proceedings (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS). IEEE. Que, S., Poelarends, R., Veltink, P., Vollenbroek-Hutten, M. & Wang, Y.https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC58623.2025.11253809Factors associated with efficacy of occipital nerve stimulation in medically intractable chronic cluster headache (2025)Headache, 65(9), 1626-1633. Brandt, R. B., Lansbergen, C. S., Kollenburg, L., Ferrari, M. D., Huygen, F. J. P. M., de Vos, C. C., Fronczek, R., Wilbrink, L. A., de Coo, I. F., Doesburg, P. G. G., Bartels, E. C., van Zwet, E. W., Huygen, F. J. P. M., Mulleners, W. M., Kurt, E., van Dongen, R. T. M., Teemstra, O. P., Koehler, P. J., Spincemaille, G. H., … Buschman, R.https://doi.org/10.1111/head.14985A Comprehensive Open-Source Toolbox for Analyzing and Improving Orientation Estimation From Inertial Sensors for Biomechanical Applications (2025)IEEE sensors journal, 25(14), 26856-26868. Haitjema, A., Reenalda, J., van Beijnum, B.-J. F., Miller, G., Veltink, P. H. & Wouda, F. J.https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2025.3568639Physiological-Model-Based Neural Network for Heart Rate Estimation during Daily Physical Activities (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Zhang, Y., Fresiello, L., Veltink, P. H., Donker, D. W. & Wang, Y.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.10144

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