Pieter Van Gorp

Pieter Van Gorp is an Associate Professor at the School of Industrial Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He holds a part-time appointment at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, focusing on societal applications of connected health games. His work spans digital health tools, personal health data economics, and cloud infrastructure for reproducible research.

Education Background: Obtained PhD in Software Engineering from University of Antwerp, followed by a postdoc there. He has served as program manager for TU/e's Data Science Center (DSC/e) and Eindhoven AI Systems Institute (EAISI), linking research to societal challenges. Since 2023, he is Scientific Director of the Clinical Informatics EngD program.

Research Interests: Focuses on personal health records as economic assets (e.g., MyPHRMachines platform), workflow model transformations (UML/BPMN/Petri-Net), and tools like SHARE/SciModeler for reproducible research. Active in gamification for corporate health and healthcare decision support systems.

Awards: Awarded Best Paper (2007, 2012), 2nd Executable Paper Prize (2011). Current activities include teaching Health Information Systems and supervising 9 active PhD students.

Advising & Grants: Mentor to 9 current PhD students and 5 alumni. Facilitates industry-academia collaboration through TU/e's innovation initiatives.

Labs/Teams: Leads the Information Systems Lab at TU/e and co-leads EAISI Health. Involved in multidisciplinary teams addressing health tech and data science challenges.