Jasper Gielen, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in wearable technology and its applications in health, sports, and healthcare. His work focuses on health monitoring for structured decision-making approaches with particular interest in user needs, interpretability and stakeholder priorities. His research includes collaborations with sports organizations, healthcare providers and industry. His recent projects focus on remote monitoring of COPD patients, thermal comfort monitoring in (endurance) eathletes, multi-modal methods mental for stress monitoring, non-invasive maturity estimation for youth athletes. In addition to his research, he contributes to academia by teaching, project management, coordinating international meetings, organizing workshops, and conference participation.