Prof. dr. ir. Joost de Winter

Cognitive Robotics Department, Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology
Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft, the Netherlands
E-mail: j.c.f.dewinter@tudelft.nl | GitHub: github.com/JoostdeWinter

Educational Background

• 2009PhD (cum laude), Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology
• 2004MSc, AeroSpace Engineering, Delft University of Technology

PhD Students Supervised

Degrees completed

• Stefan de Groot
• Mehdi Saffarian
• Bastiaan Petermeijer
• Daniel Heikoop
• Ewout Arkenbout
• Pavlo Bazilinskyy
• Yke Bauke Eisma
• Peter van Leeuwen
• Christopher Cabrall
• Zhenji Lu
• Natalia Kovácsová
• Sina Nordhoff
• Sarvesh Kolekar
• Timo Melman
• Wilbert Tabone
• Siri Hegna Berge
• Vishal Onkhar
• Tom Driessen
• Angèle Picco
• Renchi Zhang

Ongoing

• Bianca Sutcliffe
• Jenna Pfeifer
• Salvo Cucinella
• Koen Wösten
• David Stefan
• Virginia Civeriati

Projects

• Disconnected: Assessing the Effects of Technology on Youth Loneliness (NWA Loneliness Call)
• Towards Safe Mobility for All: A Data-Driven Approach (NWO 'Transitions in Behavior')
• Shape-IT. Supporting the Interaction of Humans and Automated Vehicles: Preparing for the Environment of Tomorrow
• A replication study of 'pupil size as related to interest value of visual stimuli' (NWO Replication grant)
• How should automated vehicles communicate with other road users? (NWO VIDI, 2018–2024)
• Motorist: MOTOrcycle Rider Integrated SafeTy (Marie Curie ITN, 2013–2017)
• HFauto: Human Factors of Automated Driving (Marie Curie ITN, 2013–2017)
• Our work on automated driving won the 2014 Human Factors Prize
• Preventing young driver car crashes through driving simulators (NWO VENI, 2010–2012)
• DriveObs: Driver Observation in Car Simulators (2010–2014)

Publications / Output

Preprints

Manuscripts posted on this page before peer review.

• De Winter, J. C. F. (2026). “Crucial research findings remain”: Vocabulary change in PubMed abstracts from 2015 to 2026 [Preprint]. https://joostdewinter.github.io/pubmed-vocabulary.pdf | Python code and data
• De Winter, J. C. F. (2026). Multicollinearity in statistical modeling: A review [Preprint]. https://joostdewinter.github.io/multicollinearity-review.pdf | MATLAB code and results

Published papers

• Overview of published papers

• Google Scholar
• PURE
• TU Delft Research Portal
• ResearchGate

Datasets

• 4TU.ResearchData

Editorial Board Membership

• Accident Analysis & Prevention
• Ergonomics
• Human Factors
• Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
• IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (2020–2023)

Educational Services

• Director of Studies of the MSc Robotics (2021–2023)
• MSc coordinator of the MSc Robotics (2020–2023)
• MSc coordinator of the Track Vehicle Engineering of the MSc Mechanical Engineering (2018–2020)

Teaching

• RO47006 Human-Robot Interaction (2020 onward, course responsible from 2023 onward)
• ME41080 (formerly WB2404) Human-machine systems (lecturer since 2005, course responsible from 2011 to 2021)
• RO47000/RO47010 Vision and Reflection (2020 to 2022)
• BM41045 (formerly BM1104) Experimental Design, Statistics & the Human (course responsible from 2015 to 2019)
• WBTP303 BSc Research Project (various roles: session chair, jury member, jury chair, methodology lecturer, coordinator, group supervisor, 2009 onward)
• WB3190IO Automotive Safety & Human Factors (lecturer, project-based education from 2012 to 2019)
• ME1100 Automotive Crash Safety; Active & Passive Safety Systems (guest lecturer from 2008 to 2011)
• WB2306 The Human Controller (guest lecturer from 2010 to 2013)
• IO3640 Automotive Context (guest lecturer from 2011 to 2012)
• BM1230 Selected Topics in Tissue Biomechanics and Implants (guest lecturer, 2012)

Fun

• Contributions to The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS)