Roel Wieringa

[1][2] Wieringa received his MSc in 1978 at the University of Groningen, Faculty of Mathematics, for the thesis "Generatieve Grammatika's en Bijbehorende Analyseprocedures voor Natuurlijke talen" (Generative Grammars and Their Analysis procedures for NaturalLanguages".

[5] From 2006 to 2011 he was Scientific Director of the School of Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS), and from 2009 to 2012 he headed the computer science department at the University of Twente.

In 2019, Wieringa retired from academia, and now works and blogs at The Value Engineers, which was founded in 2017 with Jaap Gordijn and Dan Ionita.

Stefan Morcov proposes a parallel between these 2 activities and a similar framework, the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) model.

[9] The TRL model was proposed by NASA and is currently also widely applied in the European Union's research programs such as Horizon.

The engineering cycle and the design cycle. Artwork by Stefan Morcov, describing the model proposed by (Wieringa, 2014)