Background

Aarnout Brombacher (1961) was born in Rotterdam (NL). He obtained a BSc and MSc (cum laude) in electrical engineering and a PhD in engineering science at University of Twente. Aarnout Brombacher has experience in industrial product development projects with special focus on “user perceived quality and reliability” and in the development of supporting quality and reliability analysis methods and tools. He has authored and co‑authored over fifty papers on these subjects and has written a book with the title “Reliability by Design”. Aarnout Brombacher is currently professor in the faculty Industrial Design of Eindhoven University of Technology heading the group “Business Process Design”. As a senior specialist he is also connected to Philips CFT Industrial and Innovation Support (IIS).

Involvement

Aarnout Brombacher is involved in the project ‘Use’ of Christelle Harkema as promoter.