Jan Broenink studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Twente, where he obtained a BSc degree in 1980, a MSc degree EE and Biomedical Engineering in 1984 and a PhD degree in 1990. His PhD project was on the development of CAMAS, Computer-Aided Modeling and Simulation: a bond-graph approach. CAMAS was further developed and is now commercially available as 20sim via our spin-off Controllab Products. From 1990 to 2003 he was assistant professor at the Control Laboratory of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Twente, where he worked on CAMAS and parallel programming for robotic control. Since 2003 he is associate professor at the same group, now called Robotics and Mechatronics (RaM).

His current research interests are Cyber-Physical Systems, Systems Engineering, Robot Software Archirectures & Tools Development for this, Simulation, Co-Simulation, Parallel Software based on CSP. For that, he is interested in: model-driven design and meta-modeling of robot software architectures; designing software tools including (co)-simulation; concurrent and systems engineering. From 2017 to 2021, he has been chairman of the Robotics and Mechatronics group, together with Stefano Stramigioli.

Jan’s teaching work is on Robot Software Design using Model-Driven approaches, Systems Engineering, and using the latter in methods for conducting and supervising MSc / BSc final projects.

Since July 2021 he is programme director of the MSc programme Robotics. Since December 2022 he is also programme director Systems and Control.