His research interests are related to the perception and the design of industrial products. He has a background in musical acoustics, psycho-acoustics, experimental psychology, music theory, and music psychology. He obtained his PhD at the Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (NICI, University of Nijmegen). After he worked as a university post-doctoral fellow at The Ohio State University, he was awarded an Individual Post-doctoral Grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and returned to NICI. In 2000, he joined the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of TU Delft. At TU Delft, he initiated a research program on Product Sound Design and Perception. In addition to his research, he teaches several courses on auditory perception, product sound design, methods and techniques for research, and statistics.