​​​​Senior Scientist at TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research

Jack Verhoosel is Senior Scientist at TNO and is part of the group Connected Business of the Data Science department within TNO. This group focuses on interoperability, i.e. the efficient and effective use of IT for the cooperation and information sharing between organisations. He specialises in semantic technology, data analytics and interoperability architecture. Research topics include (1) modelling of information and knowledge in ontologies, (2) semantic web and linked data technology for data accessibility and (3) data analytics technology for big data applications. He applies his knowledge in various industry sectors, among others agriculture, industry and the electronic government domain. He conducts applied research for national standardisation institutes and coordinates and manages applied research projects for customers. Specifically, in the government sector he is involved in the eSENS and TOOP projects that work on a platform for standard, multi-domain, cross-border public services for the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). He also applies this knowledge in several EC tenders on the development and stimulation of the Digital Service Infrastructures promoted by DG Connect and DIGIT. In the agricultural sector he was/is involved in European projects like SmartAgriFood, ERANET ICT-AGRI, FoodIntegrity, GreenGrowing and Odysseus as well as in Dutch national projects like SmartDairyFarming and BigDataHorticulture. In these projects, specifications, standards, ontologies and applications are developed for the information provisioning and exchange in the agri-food logistic chains including greenhouses. In the industry domain, he is active in the Dutch FlexMan project in which an ontology is developed for the support of flexible manufacturing.