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Meet our team

Faculty Board

Dean
Vice Dean
Associate Professor Transformative Education & Applied Ethics
Co-director Center for Transformative Education
Managing Director
Maya Motzkau
Student Assessor

Professional Staff

Managing director
Secretariat

Paula Schuit

Assistant to the Faculty Board
Secretary of prof. dr. Andrej Zwitter

Assistant to the Faculty Board
Support chairs

Education Support and Development

Tanja van der Woude-van den Houten

Team manager Education Support and Development/ Policy advisor

Student Service Desk/ Administrative support of the Board of Examiners

Scheduling Coordinator
Educational Systems Coordinator

Marijke Huisman-Wolters

Admission & recruitment officer masters

Admissions Officer for the bachelor programmes GRL and DSS

Drs. Maaike Moltzer

Study Advisor

Study Advisor
Quality Assurance Officer
Student Administration Officer
Administration Officer
Facility Services
AV management & internal services

Meryem Riad

Front office & Beadle
Front office
Front office
Research Institute & Graduate School Support
Coordinator Graduate School / Funding Officer
Secretary to the Research Institute Board/ Privacy and Security Research
Business Development & Public Affairs
Senior Communications Officer
Communications Officer
Relationship Officer
Lifelong Learning Coordinator
Marketing & Recruitment and International Relations
Manager Marketing & Recruitment and International Relations
Online Marketeer
Content & Data Management Specialist
National Recruitment Officer
Education Management
Ineke Visser, MSc
Education coordinator University College Fryslân/ DSS coordination, minor coordination
Associate Professor Transformative Education & Applied Ethics; Director of Education Campus Fryslân
Programme Director University College Fryslân & Assistant Professor in Political Philosophy

Our science teams will officially begin their activities on September 1st. Information you see about them now is for preview purposes only.

Science Team - Circular Society and Economy

Team lead
Assistant Professor Social Psychology
CSE Scientific Staff
Assistant Professor Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Assistant Professor Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Assistant Professor Social and Environmental Psychology

Assistant Professor Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Assistant Professor Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Professor Sustainable Entrepreneurship in a Circular Economy
Post doc researcher
Associate Professor of Responsible Leadership Development and Sustainability in Tourism
Researcher
Vice Dean Faculty
Associate Professor Transformative Education & Applied Ethics
Co-director Center for Transformative Education
CSE PhD Students
Marloes Ambagts-van Rooijen
Eveke de Louw
Klaas Wybo van der Hoek

Science Team - Responsible Governance and Technology

Team Lead
Associate Professor + Director of the MSc. Voice Technology
G&I Scientific Staff
Dean Faculty Campus Fryslân
Professor of International Studies, with a special focus on East Asia
Professor of Political Theory and Governance / Director of the Research Institute
Assistant Professor Governance and Innovation
Assistant Professor Data Sciences

Assistent professor Voice Technology/ teacher language and communication GRL

Assistant Professor in Data Science and Society
Associate Professor 'Human Dignity in the Digital Age'; Programme Director BSc Data Science and Society; 'Data Autonomy' Theme Coordinator Jantina Tammes School; Deputy Department Head Governance and Innovation
Assistant Professor Voice Technology
Lecturer and Doctoral Researcher

Assistant Professor Political Science

Professor Governance and Public Policy
Professor of Public Institutions and Governance
PhD Students
Hannah Louise Mulvihille
Jacques Buith
Piet Bakker
Xiaoyao Han

Science Team - Sustainable Environment and Well-Being

Team lead
Assistant Professor in Political Philosophy and Leadership, Programme Director University College Fryslân
Scientific Staff
Aletta Jacobs Chair of Knowledge Infrastructures; Director Knowledge Infrastructures Department
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Assistant profesor
Associate Professor Arctic Ecology
Researcher in migratory bird ecology
Assistant Professor of Language & Culture
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor of Cultural Heritage & Marie Curie Fellow
Assistant Professor of Climate Change and Energy Transition 
Associate Professor, Intersectional Wellbeing and Decoloniality
Assistant professor Health & Food
Rosalind Franklin Fellow, Associate Professor in Epidemiology & Sustainable Health
Professor meaningful preventive care, endowed by the Stichting Topklinische Zorg Friesland
Chair of the Climate Adaptation Programme
PhD Students

Centre for Sustainable Agriculture Transition

Faculty Council

Chair
Member
Maeve McKeown (staff)
Member
Leonardo Pereira (student BSc Global Responsibility & Leadership)
Vice-chair
Efe Cengiz (PhD staff)
Member
Charlotte Greve (student BSc Global Responsibility & Leadership)
Member
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