Forum 1: Integrating educational innovation and educational research
Charlotte Norrman (Linköping University) is passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship! She is an innovation and entrepreneurship researcher and has been since she started her PhD studies at LiU in 2003. Over the years, she has worked with evaluation of policy initiatives, biomedical engineering innovation ideas and invention-driven innovation. She also has worked a lot with innovation and entrepreneurship in green industries and agriculture. Right now, she works a lot with the combination of entrepreneurship/innovation, education as well as business development and how it can strengthen the regional innovation system and contribute to sustainable welfare in society. |
Johanna Höffken (Eindhoven University of Technology) holds an MSc of International Relations from Dresden University of Technology as well as a Master Degree in Science and Technology Studies at Maastricht University. She received her PhD at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University in 2012, where she finished her dissertation "Power to the People? Civic Engagement with Small-scale Hydroelectric Plants in India". During her time as PhD candidate she had the privilege to participate as fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard University. Johanna also holds an MA in International Relations from Dresden University of Technology and an MA in European Programme on Science and Technology (ESST) from Maastricht University, after which she worked temporarily for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Dutch Provincial Government. Johanna joined TU/e in 2012 as a lecturer and became an Assistant Professor in 2015. |
Jorge Membrillo Hernández (Tecnológica de Monterrey) has a doctorate in Biotechnology from King's College in London (UK), as well as postdoctoral stays at the University of Sheffield (UK) and Harvard University (USA). He is currently a full time professor and researcher at the School of Engineering and Sciences at Tecnológico de Monterrey's Mexico City Campus, a full member of the Socially Oriented STEM Interdisciplinary Education Research Group at the Institute for the Future of Education, and Chair of the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy in Mexico. Prof. Membrillo Hernández has 60+ published articles in indexed journals of disciplinary research and educational innovation. His research studies are mainly focused on challenge-based learning. |
Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel studied Mathematics with Physics at the University of Amsterdam and received a PhD from Leiden University in 1988. He is currently Research Director at ASML and Professor of Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems by special appointment at Utrecht University. He held positions at Brown University, Georgia Instiute of Technology, University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Leiden University. He was a visiting professor at University of California at San Diego, University of Colorado, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Rome ``Tor Vergata'', and Rutgers University. He was elected member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities in 2012. He was Chair of the board of the national platform for Dutch Mathematics and Secreatary of the European Mathematical Society from 2014 to 2021. He was co-Editor-in-Chief of Integral Equations and Operator Theory from 2000 to 2009 and is currently associate editor of SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis and of Integral Equations and Operator Theory. |
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Forum 2: CBL's Ecosystem
Naomie Verstraeten, chief Innovation & Technology, Brainport Development. For 15 years, Naomie has been guiding the Brainport Eindhoven innovation ecosystem to become more resilient and obtain crucial positions within relevant global supply chains. At first, Naomie worked in international promotion & acquisition and obtained the position of Program Director International Affairs, formulating the international strategy for the Brainport Eindhoven region. She developed an intelligence-based integrated approach, to create synergy between international innovation collaboration, attracting FDI and trade development. In her current position in the board of Brainport Development, Naomie creates public-private multi annual innovation programs, developing key enabling technologies to create solutions for global challenges. Building consortia for Green & Smart Mobility, Battery Technology, High-Tech Food Systems, Systems Engineering, Additive Manufacturing and Defence, she secured a public-private investment portfolio over € 2 billion, within the past three years and is currently coordinating the Dutch National Semiconductor Strategy. |
Suleman Joseph Audu, Environmental Manager at The Ocean Cleanup, takes us from his schoolboy Environmental Club days back in Nigeria to his vital role in our mission: making sure our river deployments bring the right benefits for the people living alongside them. Every river is unique – and so is every riverside community, particularly when the river is vital for local needs. Suleman explains how he and his colleagues work to understand plastic pollution from the local's point of view – and use our deployments to help them to solve it. Suleman also speaks to the power of empathy, how his experiences help him connect with our stakeholders and listen to what matters to them, and his pride and passion in joining our mission to rid the oceans of plastic. |
MODERATOR Maarten Steinbuch is a Distinguished University Professor in Systems and Control and Chair of Control Systems Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His research ranges from automotive engineering (with a focus on connected cars and clean vehicles) to mechatronics, motion control, and fusion plasma control. His research interests are design and control of motion systems, robotics, automotive powertrains and of fusion plasmas. In both 2008 and 2014, his research group obtained the QANU excellence rating [5555]. His group is renowned for developing and applying principles for mechanical design of high-tech systems which enable high reproducibility and low-cost manufacturing of such systems. |