Harm Akker
Lead R&D Health at SHINE 2Europe
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolHarm Akker is a Lead R&D Health and founder with a multidisciplinary technical background (BSc Computer Science, MSc Human Media Interaction, PhD Digital Health) and over 15 years of experience delivering EU and national research projects. He specializes in natural-language human-computer interaction and embodied conversational agents, translating academic research into applied virtual coaching and dialogue-driven products. At Roessingh and Innovation Sprint he led personalized eHealth research and AI-based decision tools, and his startup Fruit Tree Labs focuses on dialogue-first interfaces. He combines hands-on R&D leadership with project acquisition and consortium management across international programs like Horizon 2020. Based in Lisbon, he pairs deep HCI expertise with entrepreneurial grit, regularly bridging open-source dialogue platforms and commercial health tech deployments. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of supervising PhD-level researchers while simultaneously shipping product-facing conversational systems.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc., Human Media Interaction, MSc., Human Media Interaction at University of Twente
Dutch, English, German
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Github Skills (17)
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minecraft9
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phonetics8
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pii7
dialogue-systems7
mojo7
maven6
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eclipse6
spring6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dialoguebranch/dlb-web
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Dialogue Branch Web Services
Contributions:4 releases, 1 PR, 140 pushes in 1 year 11 months
dialoguebranch/dlb-core-java
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
DialogueBranch Core Library in Java
Contributions:4 releases, 4 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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