Maarten Bonnema

The big picture and thinking in systems to facilitate development of complex systems is what I’m mostly interested in. Developing complex systems requires integration across disciplines. Facilitating the communication between disciplines is an important focus. Applications are in (a.o.) high-tech industry and electric mobility policy-making. At this point in time, we as society are facing large challenges: COVID-19 and Climate Change. Thinking in systems and seeing how parts interact, and put that into various types of models is very useful here. Models facilitate cross-disciplinary communication. Finding the trade-off between specificity and wide understandability of such models is a challenge that I would like to address. Further how to integrate the models? The cover of the Systems Design and Engineering book I wrote with two colleagues is a visualization of such interactions. It would be a great success for me if we in NEON can create a multidisciplinary model that is useful for very diverse stakeholders: technology developers, policy makers, user-groups etc. We need to develop a pluggable architecture that allows for model refinement and expansion.