Martijn Goorden is an assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, since October 2024. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, in 2019 and joined Aalborg University as a postdoc in 2020. In 2022 he became assistant professor at Aalborg University. Since 2020, he is also a senior advisor on synthesis-based engineering within Rijkswaterstaat, part of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, the Netherlands. His research interests are in the area of supervisory control theory, synthesis-based engineering, and formal methods in control.

Martijn is a committer to the open-source Eclipse project ESCET (Eclipse Supervisory Control Engineering Toolkit) that is used both in academia and industry for developing supervisory controllers in a synthesis-based approach, with notable applications in infrastructural systems and lithography. In this role, he actively contributes to the development of ESCET with new algorithms and code implementations as well as reporting and solving issues.