Martin Nelisse was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 1968. He received his master's degree in electrical engineering from Eindhoven Technical University in 1992. He joined TNO in Delft, the Netherlands in 1990 to work in the field of system architectures and communication protocols for distributed real-time embedded computer systems. In 2007 he joined the team of top-technologists within TNO Science & Industry.
His research interests include system architecture, communication protocols, field busses, wired & wireless networks and software development of device drivers, kernels and applications for microprocessors, microcontrollers and digital signal processors. He is involved in applying these techniques in areas like active-noise control, rehabilitation, data acquisition & presentation systems, industrial automation, automotive/telematics applications, ultrasound applications and wireless/intelligent sensor networks.
He is (co)author of three patents in the area of real-time object tracking & vehicle control and high accuracy data acquisition synchronization in wireless sensor networks.
He was active in several EU projects and contributed to an ISO working group standardising a general-purpose integrated and modular architecture and communication protocol for the rehabilitation environment called M3S. He contributed to a breadbord solution as a base for the first PC-based copiers for Oce (on-site activity in Venlo, NL). He was involved in a national program for Prognostics & Health Management activities for the JSF airplane at the Boeing Company (on-site activity in Seattle, USA). After this he was involved in several automotive projects dealing with in-vehicle bus systems, inter-vehicle communication and vehicle telematics. Followed by several projects using ultrasonic techniques for underwater communication and flow measurements. In 2004 he was part of the team, which achieved a world-record stitched digital photo of 2.5 GPixels. Currently he is involved in projects dealing with wireless/intelligent sensor networks. His recently contributed to the SensOor project of AGIS Automotisering (on-site activity in Harmelen, NL), which received 4 awards ('WTC Landbouw Award voor de beste noviteit', 'Boerderij Award voor de veehouderij', 'Boerderij Award publieks prijs, 'Boerderij vakjury Award') at the Agricultural Trade Fair in 2007, the winner of the Dutch 'Hermand Wijffels' Innovatie Prijs in 2008 and the first prize of the MKB Innovatie Top 100 in 2009.
His personal interests include travelling, outdoor sports (mountaineering, trekking, orientation runs), biking (race/MTB), swimming, photography, reading and Scouting.