
Joost graduated from the Technical University Delft, faculty of electrotechnology, department of electromagnetic Fields and Forces, and has worked in the field of patents since 1993. His fields of expertise include ICT, telecommunication, telephony, navigation systems, smartcards, RF-ID, high-end medical devices, MEMS-technology, digital media, software, and mechatronics in the overlap between mechanical engineering and electrotechnology. Joost was vice chairman of the board of The Netherlands Institute of Patent Attorney for 10 years.