Personalia:
Name: Jurjen Kranenborg (E.J. Kranenborg)
Born: 21 May 1967, Eenrum, The Netherlands
Nationality: Dutch
Family status: Married, three children
Primary residence: Groningen
Secondary residence: Eindhoven/Veldhoven
Contact:
Please contact me via LinkedIn (for either professional or private matters)
About me:
I am a collaborative and communicative person, taking early initiatives to establish informal networks as a basis for long-term cooperation for strategy development, (systems) architecting and implementation.
My career has been rooted in industrial innovation: I have a very long industrial R&D experience base in an international setting - Sweden (2005–2014), Germany (2014–2016), and the Netherlands (Philips NatLab: 2001–2005; ASML: 2018–present). My work has focused on (thermal) design, systems architecture, and the industrialization and implementation of highly complex industrial equipment. In February 2024 I complemented with a strategic and competence‑management role across these technologies and processes. Throughout my career, I have been driven by applying a systems‑architecture perspective to design, engineering, and the development of future complex — and potentially fundamentally new — platforms, products, and processes.
I seek to combine my lifelong interests in contemporary history, active participation in politics and my extensive work experience in industrial innovation into a strategic contribution on European policymaking: How can Europe’s and the Netherlands’ positions as engines of innovation — technologically and socially — be sustainably safeguarded in a world affected by a rapidly shifting global power dynamics?
Current employer (ASML) & actual function description (from 1 October 2018 – now):
Name: ASML (www.asml.com)
Employment Roles:
February 2024 - now: Group Team Lead:
I am Group Team Lead for the infrastructure subsystem architects (for both NXE and EXE Scanner platforms in EUV).
- I am leading a group of ten architects/engineers with various cultural backgrounds, including four members from outside the EU. I have successfully empowered several team members to take a proper/higher level of leadership, thus enabling a self-propelling team.
- A particularly important aspect of my role is to enable the required professionalization of the group to allow the execution of the technical/functional roadmap that is linked to the foreseen expansion of ASML in the coming decade
March 2020 - January 2024 : Senior Architect: Function Architect (FA), Overall Infrastructure EXE:5X00 (High-NA EUV):
In this role I was responsible for the Scanner architecture (EX:5000 and start of EXE:5200) regarding its "infrastructure". This is the technology needed to get to the required levels of cleanliness and thermal stability for in-spec chip wafer illumination/lithography, using the carefully controlled supply of all kinds of fluids (gases, liquids of all types) to the various modules in the scanner. The required control concepts (implemented using sensors/actuators and of course software) are covered as well.
- I oversaw EXE:5000 delivery in many stages of the V-model, including concepts proposals and tradeoff decisions, roadmap, contribution, requirements specification, owning the functionality and risk overview but also test requirements,
- I owned and performed successful risk management leading to no issues during EXE:5000 integration,
- I successfully piloted compliance reporting in a new process for EXE (in particular SEMI-S2),
- I initiated activities for group learning and improvement opportunities (technical, process, establishment of Community of Practice).
October 2018 - February 2020: Project Lead:
LITES (Mobile sensor)
Skills / Experience areas:
Industrial R&D, Strategy & Roadmap development, Policy development, AI for Business, Team leadership, Technology Management, System Architecture, System Integration, Industrialization, Regulatory Compliance, Software Engineering, Transformer design, Design optimization, Design Reviews, Computational Physics (CFD & Thermo-hydrodynamic network models), Materials Science, Electronics Hardware Design, Digital Electronics, Embedded systems, Microcontrollers and sensors, Standards Development, Customer support (external & internal), Project Assessment, Student Counseling.
Expertise on professional tools & standards:
- Engineering:
- Fluid dynamics and thermal models: CFD (Fluent) and proprietary thermal & flow network models,
- Design: FreeCAD, Autodesk Fusion
- Embedded electronics: Microcontroller architecture, embedded protocols (I2C, SPI) and sensor technologies, microPython programming
- Implementation and programming languages: (Micro)Python, Visual Studio + Visual Basic, Fortran, AI-generated coding
- AI: Business process optimization (M365 business license ChatGPT/CoPilot) + private agentic exploration (Mistral AI Studio) + Policymaking on AI usage
Languages:
- Dutch (fluent, native),
- English (fluent),
- Swedish (fluent),
- German (full professional proficiency),
- Norwegian (professional proficiency).
Pre-ASML Employment history with main responsibilities
2016 - 2018: Lecturer Engineering (NHL - Stenden University of Applied Sciences):
Responsible for course development, student supervising and applied research in the fields of Embedded Systems (microcontroller applications), Mechatronics, Transport physics and Materials Science.
2005 - 2016: Senior Principal Engineer & Power Transformer Global Architecture Team member (ABB Sweden & Germany):
Responsible for thermal R&D and its integration in the system architecture as member of the Global Architecture Team for product group Medium and Large Power Transformers (PPTR). Concretely this implied the following responsibilities and activities:
- I owned and performed ABB-internal design reviews on new strategically important transformer designs, failure cases and external (customer) design review support, using CFD, thermal network models and analytical modeling.
- I successfully defended ABB’s reputation as primary ABB reporter on Factory Audit by customer (EDF/France) of ABB’s Cordoba Transformer Factory (2011)
- I oversaw the introduced new biodegradable oil types in the design system. To support this, I worked on the optimization algorithm for oil guide (washer) placement and defined guidelines for winding design.
- I contributed directly to ABB's thermal modeling software implementation (ABB's proprietory thermal network model and CFD)
- I Enabled CFD analysis by designers in the factories (CFD tool integrated in ABB’s design system) for thermal analysis of complex designs
- I increased the designers competence in thirteen factories on thermal design and optimal use of the design tooling.
- I was Project Leader “Transformer Cooling”. Main project activity in 2016 concerned re-architecting thermal design software as part of major overhaul of transformer software design system (guarding architecture requirements for physical, technical and user domain views in this process).
- I represented ABB in a key international standardization workgroup (CIGRE WG A2.38, I was task force leader CFD simulation technologies), 2010 - 2016.
- I acted as Project Assessor for project reviews (14 times in total, ABB Gate Model applied to decision process for project follow-up).
- I was a Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Power Systems / Power Delivery (2012-2016)
2000 - 2005: Philips Research Eindhoven (Nat.Lab), The Netherlands:
Research Scientist, Software Architectures group
- Development of Software Architecture approaches (focus on Domain Modeling techniques)
- Application of domain modeling techniques on future consumer electronics applications
o Services.
o Patterns for ambient intelligent systems definition (use case definition using Software Architecture patterns).
1998 - 2000: Waterloopkundig Laboratorium (now part of Deltares):
- Advisor / Researcher at Delft Hydraulics, section Marine and Estuarine Systems,
- Practical work on water quality simulations, development/improvement on model toolset.
1996 - 1998: Free University of Amsterdam, Earth Sciences
- PostDoc Sedimentary Geology, Modeling relation of E. Huxleyii primary production and calcium-carbonate sedimentation for use in palaeo-oceanographic models of primary organic production and CO2 uptake.
Education:
- 1991 - 1996: Ph.D. Physics & Astronomy, Utrecht University (Prof. W.P.M De Ruijter & Prof. H.A. Dijkstra) on “Double-Diffusive Convection due to Lateral Thermal Forcing”.
- 1985 - 1991: M.Sc. Applied Mathematics, Twente University, Control functions for orthogonal numerical grid generation. (Prof. P.J. Zandbergen & Dr. B.H. Gilding), performed at Delft Hydraulics.
Publications:
- Transformer Winding Oil Flow Rate & Hot Spot Temperature: A Straightforward Relationship?, CEPSI 2016 Conference of Electric Power Supply Industry, Bangkok, October 2016 (co-author).
- CIGRE Work Group A2.38 final report: Transformer Thermal Modelling, CIGRE Paris 2016 Session, August 2016 (co-author & Task Force Leader CFD, link, link).
- Hot Spot Determination in Transformer Windings through CFD Analysis, CIGRE WorkSpot VII Colloquium, Rio de Janeiro, 2014 (co-author).
- CFD study of non-guided laminar mixed convection of a high Prandtl number fluid in a transformer winding-like geometry, International Heat Transfer Conference, IHTC 15, Japan, 2014 (co-author).
- Considerations for the Design, Manufacture, and Retro-filling of Power Transformers with High Fire Point, Biodegradable Ester Fluids, CIGRE Paris 2012 Session, August 2012 (co-author)
- Biotemp® Transformers in the Modern Substation, CIGRE International Colloquium Transformer Research and Asset Management, Zagreb, May 2012 (co-author).
- Thermal modeling of power transformer radiators using a porous medium based CFD approach, THERMACOMP 2011, Dalian, China, 2011 (co-author).
- Numerical Study on Mixed Convection and Thermal Streaking in Power Transformer Windings, 5th European Thermal-Sciences Conference, The Netherlands, 2008 (first author).
- Modeling grain-size distributions, a comparison of two models and their numerical solution, Tectonophysics 320, 347--374, 2000 (co-author with T. Den Bezemer, H. Kooi and S. Cloetingh).
- Layer formation in double diffusive convection (overview article), in: Time-dependent Nonlinear Convection (Advances in Fluid Mechanics), ed: P.A. Tyvand, Computational Mechanics Publications, pp. 139-176, 1998 (co-author with H.A. Dijkstra and J. Molemaker).
- On the evolution of double-diffusive intrusions into a stably stratified liquid: A study of the layer merging process, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 41, 2743-2756, 1998 (first author, co-author: H.A. Dijkstra).
- On the evolution of double-diffusive intrusions into a stably stratified liquid: The physics behind self-propagating layers, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 41, 2113-2124, 1998 (co-author with H.A.Dijkstra).
- Double diffusive layer formation near a cooled liquid-solid boundary, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 41, 1873-1884, 1998 (first author, co-author: H.A. Dijkstra).
- A bifurcation study of double diffusive flows in a laterally heated stably stratified liquid layer, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 39, 2699-2710, 1996 (co-author with H.A. Dijkstra).
- The structure of (linearly) stable double diffusive flow patterns in a laterally heated stratified liquid, Phys. Fluids 7(3), pp. 680-682, 1995 (first author, co-author: H.A. Dijkstra).
- Double-diffusive Flow Patterns in the Unicellular Flow Regime: Attractor Structure and Flow Development, in: Double-Diffusive Convection, AGU Geophysical Monograph 94, eds: Fernando & Brandt, pp. 89-96, 1995 (first author, co-author: H.A. Dijkstra).
Patents:
- US-20180240587, Cooling of a Static Induction System (link), 2019
- WO-2015040213, Static Electric Induction System (link), 2015
- WO-2007069207, Access Control in a Network (link), 2006
Invited:
- 2008 – 2016: Representing ABB in CIGRE Working Group A2.38 (“Thermal Modeling”), Taskforce Leader “CFD modeling”.
- 2012 – 2016: Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems / Power Delivery.
Student supervisor projects:
Acting as project proposer & main supervisor on ABB-relevant areas (exploratory, outside of planned projects):
- Liem Tran Chau (TU Eindhoven): Competence Frameworks for the architect domain (2024)
- Mattia Montanari (CNRS Nantes, France): Multi-physics CFD-based Reduced-Order Modeling Approaches Using Commercial Codes (2013).
- Yuhe Jiao (KTH Stockholm): CFD Study on the Thermal Performance of Transformer Disc Windings Without Oil Guides (2012).
- Maria Hjalmars (KTH Stockholm): Optimization Study on Oil Flow and Temperature Distribution in Power Transformer Windings Using Global Optimization Methods (2011).
Interests / Hobbies / Projects:
"I am a Maker":
In my private technology projects there are two aspects that I always like to explore:
- To what extent can the idea be stretched and generalized (i.e. exploring the architecture of a certain idea),
- How can both the prototype and final implementations of a project be made like a piece of art (not only to make it visually attractive but also to help in getting its implementation quickly fault-free).
See the menu of this webpage for details
Politics, Information & Journalism:
Although formally not a project, I spend a very large amount of my private time on the intersection of politics, information and journalism, as I find these areas to be fundamental to the functioning of a democratic, progressive humanist society rooting in strong historical awareness. In today's data/message/impression-flooded society I consider high-quality journalism absolutely essential in providing valuable information for opinion building and decision taking. Therefore I am subscribed to six newspapers, with three subscriptions (NRC, Die Zeit, The New York Times) lasting over two decades. These sources of information and opinion serve me particularly well in my political activities:
- I am an active member of two political parties
- In 2025 I was member of the program committee for a political party, preparing for the 2026 municipal elections