Noldus Information Technology has eleven offices in seven different countries.

Our international headquarters is located in Wageningen, The Netherlands. In Europe, regional sales offices can be found in France, Germany and Spain. We also have an office in China. In the United States, our regional headquarters is located in Leesburg, Virginia and we have branches in North Carolina, Massachusetts and Washington.

Research and development is concentrated in Wageningen, The Netherlands and Budapest, Hungary.

Technical support is provided by our offices in The Netherlands (GMT+1), Virginia (EST) and Washington (PST), thus spanning multiple time zones, as well as through a network of international distributors. 

Contact details for all offices and distributors can be found here.

Company profile 

Noldus Information Technology was established in 1989 by Lucas Noldus, who serves as president of the company. Lucas holds a Ph.D. degree in animal behavior from Wageningen University. During his research on the behavioral ecology of parasitoid wasps, he developed the first version of what later became The Observer^® software package. The program was unique in that it offered a general-purpose tool for behavioral recording and analysis, independent of the organism being studied. This tool attracted the attention from researchers within and outside entomology and triggered the start of a company for the development of software tools for behavioral research.

The Observer, launched in 1990, was the first in a series of successful software products, including EthoVision^®, UltraVox™, MatMan™, Pocket Observer, Theme™, uLog™, CatWalk™ and FaceReader™. The introduction of the PhenoTyper^® product line in 2004 marked our debut as a hardware manufacturer. Over the years we have evolved from a software vendor into a provider of integrated systems and solutions, comprising of software, hardware, and services. We can now supply complete observational lab set-ups or multi-room research facilities. But of course you can also come to us for a single software license or handheld computer.