Jan graduated in 2018 with an MSc in Offshore and Dredging Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, focussing on Discrete Element Modelling (DEM) and the experimental research of the cohesion-adhesion relation. For the past two and a half years, he has worked as a R&D Engineer for DEME’s activity line dredging, working on CSD related topics with the focus on cutter heads. As of May 2021, he will be one of the dedicated production engineers for DEME’s CSD Spartacus.