Jan Verwaeren is Assistant professor at the Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling of the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering of Ghent University. He is a member of the Knowledge-based Systems research unit KERMIT. His research activities are centered on image analysis and the fusion of heterogeneous data and applied research on, among others, video-based monitoring of plants and animals and on data-driven modelling for pharmaceutical engineering.

Keywords: Image Analysis, Monitoring Biological Systems, Mathematical Modelling,, Mathematical Optimization