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• I started volunteering for IEEE as the Counselor of the Eindhoven University of Technology Student Branch in 1996. The Branch and its Counselor were invited to the first Region 8 Student Branch Congress in Istanbul, Turkey, 1998, to inform the participants about the best practices of this exemplary Branch. Moreover, I took care of the technical program at this Congress. Subsequently, the Branch, under my guidance, organized the second Student Branch Congress in Eindhoven, 2000.
• On the Benelux Section level, I was involved in the organization of several Benelux Signal Processing Chapter seminars and symposia.
• As a member of the Benelux Section's Executive Committee, I was involved in the Section's assessment during the Region 8 Committee meeting in Kraków, Poland, 2004.
• As the Benelux Section Vice Chair, I started the IEEE Milestone nomination process (the first in the Benelux!) for Royal Philips Electronics, which led to the eventual Milestone ceremony on 6 March 2009. During my term as Section Chair, the first-ever CEDA Chapter (Council on Electronic Design Automation) was established, several inactive Chapters were revitalized, and one new Student Branch was founded. Furthermore, the (steady) growth of the Section's membership was raised to over 6% per year. Much effort was put into "making the Section the IEEE member's home;" in addition to many 'invisible' actions, the Section's web site was completely redesigned and its information content was drastically improved.
• On the Region 8 level, I was active in the Student Activities (Sub)Committee, in particular as the Student Paper Contest coordinator for eleven years. I coordinated the whole process and organized the oral finals at the Region 8 conferences (EUROCON and MELECON), and sometimes (MELECON 2004, Dubrovnik, Croatia) acted as a jury member in the conference's own student paper contest.
• As the Region 8 Vice Chair Student Activities, I was heavily involved in the organization of the sixth Student Branch and GOLD Congress in London, 2008, which brought together over 200 IEEE volunteers from all over the world. Moreover, I was participating in the Region 8 GOLD (Sub)Committee and in the Region 8 Professional Activities (Sub)Committee.
• I am presently serving as the Chair of the MGA Student Activities Committee.