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Dr. Daan Schuurbiers studied Chemistry and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. After obtaining his MA in the Philosophy of Language (including a minor in Chemistry) in 2000 he started working as a project manager for Cambridge Biomedical Consultants in Delft in August 2002. Through his work for the European Federation of Biotechnology in that period, he became interested in the philosophical and sociological dimensions of scientific and technological innovation. In April 2005, Daan started as a PhD student at the Working Group on Biotechnology and Society of Delft University of Technology, where he carried out his research into social responsibility in research practice. In this period he obtained the Teaching Qualification for Higher Education in 2008 and completed the graduate training programme of the graduate school on Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC) in 2009. He was also project manager for the European Commission Co-ordination Action Nanobio-RAISE from 2005 - 2008, co-founder and Vice-Chairman of the Imagine Foundation and regular columnist for Delta, TU Delft's university magazine. Daan defended his PhD-thesis in 2010. He currently works as a Project Manager at the Centre for Society and Genomics in Nijmegen, where he aims to put the results of his PhD-thesis into practice in the form of a professional consultancy that advises researchers on responsible innovation.

http://radboud.academia.edu/DaanSchuurbiers

Dr. Ruud van Ommen is working as an associate professor in the Product & Process Engineering group of the Chemical Engineering department at Delft University of Technology. He obtained an MSc in chemical engineering at Delft University in 1996. In 2001 he obtained his PhD at Delft University; his thesis was titled “Monitoring Fluidized Bed Hydrodynamics”. An important part of this work was focussed on early detection of agglomeration in biomass-fired fluidized beds. In 2004–2005, he was a visiting researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, working on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of gas-solid flow. In the summer of 2009, he was a visiting professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, working on fluidization and coating of nanoparticles. His current research focuses on dispersed multiphase reactors, in particular, developing novel methodologies to monitor and structure these reactors, and on chemical engineering approaches to make nanostructured particles by methods such as atomic layer deposition, molecular layer deposition and electrospray deposition. The aim is to make nanostructured materials with high precision in a scalable manner. Awards and grants include the Unilever Research Prize for his MSc thesis, the DSM Award for his PhD thesis, and the Veni grant of the Dutch National Science Foundation.

http://www.tnw.tudelft.nl/vanOmmen

Dr. Shishir Panjabrao Sable is born and brought up in India. After completing Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Mumbai in 1999, he joined as a Research Assistant in National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. He was involved in modeling of the bubble breakup and coalescence process and carried out measurement on power fluctuations in stirred reactor. In 2001, he moved to University of Twente, The Netherlands to pursue a two year post-graduation programme (TwAIO) in the field of Process Development in the Faculty of Chemical Technology. He joined the Process and Energy Technology, Faculty of 3mE in 2003 as a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Dr. –Ing. Hartmut Spliethoff. His PhD work was focused on Mercury speciation in Co-combustion and Gasification processes. From August 2007, he joined Corus Staal BV, The Netherlands, as a Researcher in the Rolling Metal Strips division. In Corus, he is responsible for mid-term and long-term development projects in the area of energy and combustion technology. Currently, he is a “Kenniswerker” with Multi-scale deptt in TUDelft. Kenniswerker is a state sponsored programme to improve the collaboration between the Industry and University. In this programme, he is responsible for developing knowledge on “Fuel gas utilization and optimization in steel industry”.

Dr. Shahzad Khan graduated with B.Sc (Physics) and M.Sc (Electronics) from Kanpur University, Kanpur, India in 1999 and 2001 respectively. He worked as a Trainee in VLSI Design Centre, IIT Kanpur for six months and then as Research Associate in Centre for Mechatronics, IIT Kanpur, India till August 2004 under. In February 2008, he completed PhD studies in Electronics Engineering and Computer Science (Specialized in Mechatronics Engineering), Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. He worked as Postdoctoral Researcher in Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands in the Department of Precision and Microsystems Engineering till February 2010. Currently he is working as Managing Consultants at Xelvin BV, The Netherlands.

www.xelvin.nl

Mr. Erik de Groote graduated in Physics in 2000 on thin film technology at the former Natlab from Philips, nowadays known as the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, and he graduated in Informatics in 2001 on embedded systems at CMG (nowadays known as Logica CMG). After having spent some years working as a sales engineer, Erik moved his career into the technical agencies and for the past 6 years Erik has been working as a technical consultant. Xelvin is a technical agency focusing on engineering and in his group in particular they support and advise Masters, PhD’s and Post-Docs to pursue a career in research institutes and engineering/R&D departments mainly within the industry. With over 450 technical employees and 35 nationality’s Xelvin is one of the largest technical agency’s in The Netherlands and with its technically educated consultants they both speak the language of the engineers as well as that of the customers. This makes it convenient for academics to meet and explain their needs and ambitions both from personal as well as from technical perspective.

www.xelvin.nl

Drs. Laura Pander is a Grant Advisor at the Valorisation Centre, NWO (Vernieuwingsimpuls), STW, FP7 (ERC, Marie Curie). Earlier in 2003 she did her MA in Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen. She further continued her MA in Philosophy from the same University and completed it in 2006. From 2007 – 2008 she was a Project Manager for an EU FP6 research project at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. Her expertise lies in funding opportunities for research projects, in particular in personal grants like the VENI, Marie Curie fellowships and the STW Valorisation Grant as a first step towards starting up a spinoff company.

http://www.stw.nl/Programmas/ValorisationGrant/

Dr. Sasa Kenjeres studied Mechanical Engineering, Energy and Process Engineering at University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1985-1990). PhD student in Applied Physics at Delft University of Technology, Thermo-Fluids Section (1995-1998). Ph.D thesis “Numerical Modelling of Complex Buoyancy Driven Flows” defended on 2nd of February 1999. From 1999-2001 worked as Postdoctoral researcher at Department of Applied Physics, Thermo-Fluids Section. In 2001 received prestigious research fellowship (5 years) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and Arts (KNAW) at Delft University of Technology. From 2004 Assistant Professor at Department of Multi-Scale Physics. From 2005-2006 he was Burgers Visiting Associate Professor at University of Maryland, College Park, USA, Institute of Physical Science and Technology, Computer and Space Science/ Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center. From 2007-2010 he was Marie-Curie Visiting Professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland. From 2002-2008 he was ERCOFTAC (European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion) and Leonhard Euler Centre Visitor Fellowships at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. (Co)Supervised 11 PhD, 32 MSc and 10 BSc students at TU Delft and ETH Zurich (1999-present). Publications include 1 book, 4 book chapters, 43 ISI journals and 73 reviewed international conference proceedings. Research interests include: theoretical developments,mathematical modelling , experimental investigations and numerical simulations of complex transient and turbulent transport phenomena; computer simulations of biomedical phenomena (blood flow and localised magnetic drug targeting, development of atherosclerosis, brain vascular system); modelling and simulations of environmental flows (turbulent dispersion in complex urban areas, city pollution); magnetohydrodynamics (fluid flow/electromagnetic field interactions, magnetic dynamo).

http://www.tnw.tudelft.nl/Kenjeres

Mr. Bas van Laarhoven studied Chemical engineering at the Delft University of technology. After his studies he continued as a Ph.D. student in Delft. His thesis was on the development of new laboratory testers to study the breakage of agglomerates. In 2007 he joined DSM as a particle technology scientist.

http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/bas-van-laarhoven/6/35/14a

Dr. Argyrios Bailas received a Diploma from the University of Thrace, Greece and MS and a PhD from the University of Minnesota , USA, all in Electrical Engineering. Before joining the EPO he taught at the University. Since joining the EPO he worked in a number of positions- examiner, Director of Learning and Development. He is currently responsible, among other activities, for examiner recruitment. The European Patent Office is an organisation comprising of 38 member states. It is the second largest intergovernmental institution in Europe a self-financed organisation and is self-financed. Patent examiners work at the forefront of technology and deal every day with the latest and most challenging technical innovations. They use internal search tools to find all available published documentation relevant to the patent application they are working on. Then based on the results and the European Patent Convention, they assess if all legal requirements are fulfilled for the grant of a patent. The job of a European patent examiner demands a unique combination of scientific expertise, analytical thinking, language skills and an interest in intellectual property law.

http://www.epo.org

Dr. Barry Rawn received the PhD and MASc degree in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto in 2010 and 2004. He also received the BASc in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto in 2002. His research interests include nonlinear dynamics and sustainable energy infrastructure. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Electrical Power Systems group at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He studies the integration of wind and solar power sources into the electrical grid.

http://homepage.tudelft.nl/g74r2/

Dr. Harry van der Hijden graduated as a biochemist at the University of Nijmegen. Subsequently he did a PhD on mechanistic aspects of enzymes involved in biological cation transport (sodium and proton pumps). The PhD study was a joint effort between the Biochemistry Department of the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands and the Institute of Biophysics of the Max Planck Institute in Frankfurt, Germany. He joined Unilever R&D Vlaardingen in 1989 to work on the stabilisation of detergent enzymes and to lead an enzyme-engineering project for the Laundry Category of the Home and Personal Care Division. After five years he moved to Foods research where he has led projects on biological flavour generation and antioxidant metabolism. During a three-year stay in the Plant Science Group of Unilever R&D, Colworth, UK he led a project on micronutrient metabolism in his role as lead scientist Plant Biochemistry. Since his return to Vlaardingen in 2002, he was skill-base leader Biochemistry in the science area Molecular Aspects of Health of the Unilever Food and Health Research Institute. From October 2006 to early 2008 he was lead scientist Food Biochemistry in the Unilever Food and Health Research Institute. From 2008 onwards he is the science leader Biochemistry and Genesis Work stream leader in the Unilever Discover organisation.

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Mr. Jos Krijnen is the HR Director for EMEA W&PT. Jos is leading the regional HR team and is based in Haasrode, Belgium.Jos has the Dutch nationality but has been living and working abroad since many years. He got his MBA degree at the Derby University (UK) in 2000 and studied Human resources Management in Breda in the Netherlands. Before joining GE, Jos worked for many years as a Senior HR Consultant for an international Consultancy company in the Netherlands. The years before joining GE Jos worked as HR manager for FEI Company in the Netherlands and in the Czech Republic. He joined GE Plastics in February 2005 as the European HR manager Sales & Marketing based in Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands. In February 2007 Jos moved to the US as the Global HRM for Sales and Product Management for GE Energy Power Generation.In May 2009 Jos moved back to Europe with his family to become to EMEA HR Director for GE Water & Process Technologies based in Haasrode, Belgium. GE is known about her strong performance management processes and development focussed HR strategy.Workforce planning and individual development of employees are key within GE and have a high priority of each manager in the organization. This results in better performances, higher motivation and leads to a positive image on the labour market.

http://visible.me/jos_krijnen_2910335

http://be.linkedin.com/pub/jos-krijnen/2/a2a/ba8

http://www.gewater.com/index.jsp

Dr.ir. Frank van der Hoeven (1964) is associate professor Urban Design at the Faculty of Architecture at the TU Delft. He conducted his PhD research in the field of underground space technology and multifunctional and intensive land-use and worked afterwards as urban planner for the City of Rotterdam till 2002. Back at TU Delft he was between 2005 and 2008 involved in European projects within the INTERREG (both IIIB and IIIC) frameworks. He developed as lead partner a successful Interreg IIIC network, called Connected Cities with a budget of €1,3 million. Currently he combines his associate professorship Urban Design with the position of Director of Research of the Faculty of Architecture. As such he is responsible for the development of the research portfolio of the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft.

Project coordinator and/or marketing advisor specialized in the organisation all kind of events. Now involved in the project Awareness Scientist @ YES!Delft, the incubator of the TU Delft. Within a year YES!Delft would like to create more awareness about entrepreneurship among scientists, to realise this two projects have been started. The first project aims to reward the scientists who are, besides their scientific tasks, actively involved in student projects (e.g. Nuna) and/or high tech startups. Within the second project YES!Delft will challenge the scientists to start their own company or to develop their own idea into a business case.

Specialties: Talent for organisation & enthusiasm

http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/anneke-verkerk/7/275/717

http://www.yesdelft.nl/OverYESDelft/Team.aspx

Dr. Judith Redi obtained her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 2010. Her PhD project was entirely funded by Philips Research and focused on the study and modeling of visual quality perception mechanisms for the development of display technologies. During her PhD she was also a guest researcher at Philips Research Labs (2007), and of the Man-Machine Interaction group of Delft University of Technology in 2009. In 2010 her thesis “Visual Overall Quality Assessment: a perception-driven framework based on Computational Intelligence techniques” received the “best engineering thesis award” from the University of Genoa. In the same year she was appointed as a postdoctoral researcher at Eurecom, France, where she focused on digital image forensics and 3D face recognition. Dr. Redi is currently Assistant Professor at the Man-Machine Interaction group of Delft University of technology, department of Mediamatics, EEMCS, where her main research interests are the study and modeling of Visual Perception mechanisms, in particular applied to visual quality of experience assessment, machine learning and intelligent lighting applications.

http://mmi.tudelft.nl/?q=node/5113

Dr Nanneke J. de Fouw read medical biology at Utrecht University. She gained her PhD at Leiden University on a thesis on Activated protein C and fibrinolysis. After a short period as clinical research associate, Nanneke held several (project) management posts at Unilever Research & Development, Vlaardingen, the Netherlands. She played a major part in developing and launching food products for Europe, keeping in touch with health, technical as well as commercial aspects. Apart from this Nanneke initiated and implemented within Unilever R&D worldwide knowledge management in innovation projects, training programmes ("Academy") and management development. Doing so Nanneke developed ample skills on project management, coaching, team development and facilitation. These skills were formalised by obtaining certificates and accreditations for Meyers Brigss Type Indicator (MBTI), Belbin Team rolls, NLP Master and IAF facilitator.

During her career Nanneke gathered a unique combination of experience on fundamental and applied research as well as commercial and organisational aspects of research and product development. As an independent professional she now applies this expertise in research and commercial settings by coaching individual and team development, project-, proces- and knowledge management. At Delft University she provided individual coaching and  management consultancy and still renders BKO-coaching. She also facilitates decision making and project planning to project teams and is engaged as interim project manager at Sara Lee/SC Johnson and Sara Lee/Douwe Egberts after having worked at Danone.

www.stide.nl/

Dr Pieter Stienstra is an experienced independent project, interim and general manager with a professional geo-scientific background. He read geology with biology and oceanography at VU Amsterdam (BSc) and Leiden University (MSc) and obtained his PhD in 1991 at Utrecht University. Pieter’s carreer set off with geological work at the Archeological Department of Leiden University and with organising post-academic technological education at PATO. After that, he worked in applied geological and environmental sciences at GeoSurvey Nederland BV, Delft Geotechnics (now part of Deltares) and Waterboard South-Holland Islands ZHEW, shifting more and more to account, project and eventually general management. After that Pieter worked the Dutch Highway Authority Rijkswaterstaat, first as director Geo-Consultancy and later as director Road Infrastructure at two knowledge branches of RWS. Within Rijkswaterstaat he also carried out interim and project management on the organisation and transfer of geo-data.

During his carreer Pieter acquired sound expertise with and strong appetite for working within very different cultural settings on content driven change, innovation and improvement of (geo)products and working methods. After founding his own agency Stienstra Development Stidé (2008) he specializes further on this, applying his broad professional experience and knowledge in ever changing contexts. Additionally he engages in innovative commercial and non-commercial activities of all sorts, characterised by growth, creativity and a non-conformist approach.

www.stide.nl/