Frans de Jongh is Assistant Professor at the department of Engineering Fluid Dynamics of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Twente. He also works at the AMC hospital of Amsterdam as a researcher and at the Medisch Spectrum Twente hospital at the department of Pulmonology were he is head of the pulmonary function lab. He is specialised in the respiratory system of humans, from ventilated premature neonates to elderly. Working on the boundary of technology (especially fluid flow projects) and medicine (the lungs) he is nationally and internationally involved in many projects in the field of technical medicine and biomedical technology.