Roel Boumans graduated from Delft University of Technology in Aerospace Engineering on the topic of space robotics in 1988. He worked in industry for over 25 years, and obtained is PhD in Medical Sciences at Radboud University in 2020 on the topic of robots in healthcare. He is now working as an assistant professor at the Behavioural Science Institute of the Radboud University. He has started in 2020 the social human agent and robot communication (SHARC) lab on research into designing and building virtual humans. Several experiments have already been done with virtual humans for healthcare, politics, sports and commerce.