Besides owner and director of Fabrique Invent, Niels is also still active as a designer. He enjoys solving technical problems and has final responsibility of all the designs. In addition to designing and drawing, Niels is not afraid of solving complicated calculations and with the help of models he always manages to figure it out.

In his spare time Niels does not sit still, in addition to skating and running, Niels tries to optimize the habitat of bees.