About

Mark Kotterink is a color researcher and educator based in the Netherlands. His work connects color science to professional practice through four parallel lines of research — cultural variation in color experience, professional color competency assessment, modular normlight architectures, and applied color in industry, healthcare and design.

He is founder and director of the Stichting Nederlands Kleur Instituut (SNKI), where he leads the Nederlandse Kleurenschool and develops vocational color education. He developed the Color Experience System (CES) and the assessment framework underlying the ColorAptitude platform.

Current work

• AIC 2026 (Florence) — oral presentation on the Color Experience System
• Color Research and Application — three-paper series on professional color competency assessment
• Empirical Mapping of the Semantic Color Space — ongoing research project, measuring LCh* boundaries of sensory-semantic concepts across cultural clusters

Affiliations

• Founder and director, Stichting Nederlands Kleur Instituut (SNKI)
• Affiliated lecturer, Savantis
• Independent Researcher