Hello! My name is Maxim Van de Wynckel, a researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. I am a PhD candidate focusing on hybrid and indoor positioning, interoperability, linked data, and methods for discovering services. Read more about me here. For a list of all my academic publications, click here. I often write about my research or other projects in my blog.
Recent blog posts
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Invitation to my public PhD defence 1 min My public PhD defence on 'Interoperable and Discoverable Indoor Positioning Systems' will take place on the 30th of June at 15:00 -
Research featured in an interview 1 min Our research towards decentralised positioning systems and location data was featured through an interview in the Flemish magazine 'Knack'. -
The privacy of location data is an open problem 3 min Imagine this: Your New Year’s resolution is to exercise more, so you start running. Suddenly, ads for running shoes pop up on your phone. Convenient? Sure. But it makes you wonder: Why are you seeing this?
Recent publications
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OpenHPS: A Modular Framework to Facilitate the Development of FAIR Positioning Systems journal Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2025). OpenHPS: A Modular Framework to Facilitate the Development of FAIR Positioning Systems. Journal of Open Source Software, 10(110), 8113. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08113 -
Survey on the Privacy and Transparency of Location Data dataset Van de Wynckel, M., & Signer, B. (2025). Survey on the Privacy and Transparency of Location Data. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15564050 -
