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Kees van den Doel is a versatile researcher whose work spans two distinct but equally rigorous domains: physical simulation and interaction modeling, and robotic systems performance analysis. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering contributions to scanning and modeling the physical interaction behavior of 3D objects, work that garnered an impressive combined citation count of nearly 350 references across its two major iterations (2001 and 2005). This research enabled the construction of computational models capturing deformation responses, contact textures for haptic feedback, and contact sounds — a landmark contribution to physically-based simulation and human-computer interaction. Earlier in his career, van den Doel made significant strides in robotics, developing a unified differential geometry-based framework for systematically constructing performance measures for robot manipulators. This foundational work, cited 34 times, spawned several follow-on studies exploring redundancy, nonlinearity, locomotion robots, and constrained systems. His ability to apply rigorous geometric formalism to practical robotics problems demonstrated both mathematical sophistication and engineering insight. Collectively, van den Doel's research reflects a rare breadth — bridging physical simulation, haptics, and robotics — making his body of work a valuable resource for students and researchers working at the intersection of interactive computing and mechanical systems.