People

Michiel started his career at Randstad Staffing Service. Michiel was fascinated how to differentiate his service from the competition which started his passion for innovation, sales and marketing. In 1999, he started a company and took a patented process to the market. In 2005, he worked for a governmental platform to stimulate innovation for Small Medium Enterprises (SME’s) with a focus on building bridges between big organisations/ multinationals and innovative companies. He was the co-founder of the European First Responder Innovation Managers (EFRIM) platform, improving the innovation capacities of first responders in Europe.

At Stage Gate 11 Michiel loves to work on the commercial and marketing side of the company.

Wil is passionate about turning innovations into profitable businesses. As a business coach, Wil worked for many years as an independent consultant helping entrepreneurs to grow their business. He was also connected to the knowledge centre Business Innovation of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences developing programs about entrepreneurship and innovation. Following his ambition to grow his own business, based on technological innovation, he co-founded Stage Gate 11 with his business associates Gunther and Michiel in 2015.

Rob started his career in science with the University of Nijmegen, working on fundamental questions in spectroscopy. He completed a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences on the topic of infrared spectroscopy in 2004. Moving from there, he took a different career path, working with customers in a senior sales position with an internationally renowned distribution company for many years, consulting on high tech solutions. During this tenure, however, he has always remained in touch with his native field of expertise, spectroscopy.

Rob is driven by a motivation to apply his lengthy experience in using instrumentation and his native knowledge on spectroscopy to realize and perfect sensing solutions such as Delta R.

To call Gunther a geek is an understatement. As a young guy he loved to work at with all the machines at his dad’s greenhouse, take them apart and put them together afterwards.

After graduating from the University of Applied Sciences he worked in the construction industry. He moved to Schiphol to start at the real estate department. After his first project for the security department, they insisted that he should stay. It opened the opportunity to combine his talents for constructing, project management and technology. His crown jewel project was the co-development and introduction of the Provision body scanner, which was deployed on a global scale.

With a background in the field of biomedical research and experiences with various innovative analytical x-ray spectroscopy techniques, the step to the research and development of safety and security systems is not a traditional one. The science geek inside him has allowed his interests in anything scientifically challenging and the lust for more knowledge, to expand his horizon to beyond the laboratory alone. While his strength lies mostly on the research in the laboratory, it will give Jim a great deal of satisfaction when research is turned into a real-life application.

Tackling interesting scientific questions but also maintaining the quality of the processes to a high standard, has become his motivation to keep improving.

Svetlana is our Data Scientist! Besides, she is a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, currently working on her thesis project which involves using Machine Learning methods for predicting water quality. In this project, she is working on the best models to deal with the high-resolution mass spectrometry data, with a particular interest in Deep Learning models, such as Artificial Neural Networks, CNNs, and Transformers.

At SG11 will involve working with the multi-dimensional data, in terms of finding proper supervised/unsupervised algorithms for searching small amounts of contaminants in hyperspectral imaging. Other tasks also include developing classification algorithms for the chemical identification of different nuggets in images.

To be fair, Jasper Rothert is no stranger to us. Initially Jasper joined Stage Gate 11 for his first internship as part of the study Forensic Sciences at Saxion University of Applied Sciences. Part of the education is to acquire the knowledge and skills to become a researcher in the forensic field.

Assisting the further development of the Delta R Shoe Scanner, Jasper did an excellent job. Moreover his internship at SG11 led to the discovery of his passion for the development of new technology in forensic context, just like the Delta R. For this reason, Jasper is motivated to continue with his contribution to the Delta R project for the upcoming five months.

His thesis assignment covers research on contamination of surfaces by target material.

Dionne recently graduated from her Bachelor’s Forensic Science at the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam, where she acquired skills and knowledge on the subject of forensic topics, as well as experience in conducting laboratory research. Because of her affinity with both scientific and forensic topics, the Delta R project immediately caught her attention.

Dionne joined the SG11 team as an intern, and now operates as our test engineer. She works on test methods as well as improving our systems.

Gwyn is a Master student Applied Mathematics at Delft University of Technology. At TU Delft she follows the stochastics track, which includes statistics and probability.

During her internship with SG11, she will be focussing on data transformation, contributing indispensably to our classification algorithm.

Quinten is currently in his final year of studying Aviation at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. He decided to specialise in Engineering within this field, and successfully completed the minor Data Driven Business. For his third year ‘s internship he delivered a setup for the required process optimization within KLM Engine Services. After just having successfully completed the Flight Operations Engineering specialisation, he is now more than ready to focus on his graduation project. For this he will perform an analysis within SG11 on the challenges involved on implementing the Small Item Scanner in the security process. With this research he strives to make a positive impact in the development of aviation security.

Corné is a student at the Amsterdam University of applied sciences, where he is currently in the fourth and final year of his study Aviation Operations. After specializing in aviation logistics last year, he was looking for a place where he could apply his newly acquired knowledge.

This led him to SG11, where he is now doing his graduation research. His research is focused on the specific requirements that the different stakeholders have within the OTD project. With the eventual goal of supporting the development team to create a more efficient application of the OTD.

Mike has a long history within the physics department developing software for different technological applications and purposes. For years he has been working on software for detection of materials, for medical purposes as well as through X-ray analysis for illicit substances. Currently he is working on the software of our Delta R Shoe Scanner and future functionalities of the instrument.

Apart from his brilliant mind, Mike enjoys to climb mountains and has a fine taste for tea which he can tell you all about!

Thierry, physicist with a PhD in Material Science and Engineering, assists the team with his knowledge of the technology and the physics behind it, exploring opportunities for our Delta R technology.

Doris has flown into the team bit by bit. During her study Industrial Design Engineering in Delft she has translated our product ideas to tangible images and 3D models.

Now that she is graduated she is part-time member of the marketing and communications team. By means of design thinking and graphic design she makes sure SG11 is found and understood by the public and our solutions, projects and ideas are clearly depicted and shared. Accounting for smooth communication both in-house and externally.

Are you looking for a new job opportunity? Setting the next step in your career, learning more about innovative technologies, exploring the dynamic and international world of Aviation Security & Logistics?

Our eyes are always open for new hires and talents. Are you convinced that you are a great addition to our team? Do not hesitate to contact us and send in your application. We are looking forward to meeting you and learn about your speciality.