Marcel van Berlo

Dr. Marcel van Berlo isa senior program and project manager in the field of human factors and security at TNO (the Netherlands) and holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Psychology and Technology from the University of Leuven. An important part of his activities is building coalitions between different stakeholders and networks both at a national and European level, with the purpose of conducting applied and meaningful research benefiting society. Within the TNO Unit Defence, Safety & Security, Marcel is the EU manager security research. Since 2019, he has been the chair of the EARTO Working Group security & defence research. From 2017-2020 Marcel was the technical coordinator of the European research project DRIVER+ which was labelled by REA as a “success story” and selected as one of ten most impactful, innovative breakthrough projects of 2020 funded by the EC.