About Me
Willem is an Assistant Professor in the chair of Asset Management & Maintenance Engineering at the Engineering Technology faculty of the University of Twente.
Willem’s research broadly focuses on Life Cycle Engineering, an engineering perspective that can best be described as the assessment and improvement of the entire life cycle of products and physical systems, to make them more sustainable with respect to people, planet, and profit.
Relevant research areas include Sustainable product and capital asset design; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for evaluating environmental and social impacts; Life Cycle Costing and Life Cycle Valuation (LCC and LCV) for assessing financial viability and value creation; Maintenance Engineering methods for optimizing reliability, availability, functionality and extending lifespans; The Circular Economy for organizing closed material and re-use cycles and supply chains at the end-of-life; And strategic decision-making as part of Asset Management.
As a researcher with a background in Industrial Design Engineering, Willem likes to bridge the worlds of theory and practice by asking and answering ‘how can?’ type questions, often in close collaboration with partners from industry. Previous collaborations include partners from the manufacturing, energy, and transportation sectors.
Other roles:
- Coordinator of the MEO specialisation
- Chair of the Optimus Association
Expertise
Organisations
Publications
UT Research Information System
Education
Affiliated Study Programmes
Master
Courses Academic Year 2023/2024
Courses Academic Year 2022/2023
Projects
Daily supervision in the following research project(s):
Nina Jakubeit (PhD research in the SIRA project)
Merishna Ramtahalsing (PhD research in the SIRA project)
Co-promotor in the following research project(s):
Henrike Holwerda (PhD research in the SAMEN project)
Current Projects
Finished Projects
Contact Details
Visiting Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Horst Complex
(building no. 20), room W260
De Horst 2
7522LW Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Horst Complex
W260
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands