Kristof Michiels

Foto Kristof Michiels
  • Senior Researcher
  • T: +32 2 629 18 74
  • E: kristof.michiels@vub.ac.be
  • W: http://dglo.be



Kristof Michiels works as a senior researcher and application developer (iLab.o at IBBT-SMIT at the Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). He has studied Art History & Archaeology (1998) at the Free University of Brussels. Before joining the IBBT-SMIT-team in 2004, he worked in the ICT-industry as a consultant (Atos Origin, 1998-2001) and as an art historian in the Rubenianum in Antwerp (2002-2004).

As an application developer and a social media expert, Kristof is involved in a broad range of IBBT-SMIT projects. He prefers working with open source technologies like Ruby on Rails to make web applications like for example Edosia , an online platform for new media artists (among others) and he focuses on native iPhone development. Furthermore, he is especially interested in topics regarding e-culture and the internet of things.

Kristof can be found at Twitter, Last.fm and Facebook with the following alias: admkrm.