Sietske Vissers, MSc
Sietske Vissers, MSc, is educational advisor, specialized in inclusive education and technology enhanced learning, at the Educational Support and Innovation (ESI) department. ESI teaches and inspires educators with state-of-the-art didactical courses, tailor-made advisory and educational (re-)design. In a university where diversity is the norm, creativity, curiosity and focus are the most important tools to work with. Next to this, Sietske is a PhD-student with a research focus on making education more accessible for people with hypersensitivity in interpersonal relationships.
Wander Jager
Wander Jager (1962) is a social scientist with a broad interdisciplinary interest in social complex phenomena and transition to a sustainable society. Being inspired by the work of John Holland on chaos and self-organisation in the 90’s, he has since then been working and teaching on the micro-macro interactions in various social systems. His PhD thesis “Modelling Consumer Behaviour” integrated key behavioural theories into a computer simulation of human population behaviour. A key theme in his work is studying the dynamics of human behaviour in environmental contexts. As such he has been organizing special issues on the The Human Actor in Ecological-Economic (Ecological Economics - 2001) and Social Simulation in Environmental Psychology (Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2017). Formalising behavioural theory and empirical data in agent-based simulations is currently being used in the Horizon 2020 project SMARTEES on social innovation in the energy sector. Other application address the dynamics of migration and acculturation, opinion dynamics (covid), littering and socio-ecological dynamics. In the EU Erasmus scheme he is working on ACTISS in developing on-line courses on social computation. He started the Groningen Center for Social Complexity in 2009
Berfu Ünal
Dr. A. Berfu Ünal is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the Campus Fryslan of the RUG. Her research focuses on the social and cognitive processes behind decision-making and human behaviour. Notably, she explores how individual, social, and contextual factors interact to influence behaviour, performance, and thinking. She applies this expertise particularly to domains that remain to be important societal challenges in the face of sustainable development, such as facilitating pro-environmental behaviours (in particular recycling, waste-separation, car-use reduction and reduction of household energy use), adoption of sustainable innovations, and acceptability of environmental policies. In her research, she collaborates with experts from other disciplines and practitioners to develop unique approaches in triggering sustainable behaviours.
Prof. dr. Lorenzo Squintani
Prof. Dr Lorenzo Squintani is Professor of Energy Law at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). He is also founder and member of the managing board of the Like!Me Living Lab which studies how to improve the effectiveness of public participation practices in the field of energy and environmental matters (link). He is also founder and member of the managing boards of the European Environmental Law Forum (EELF.info) and of the U4 Environmental Law Network. Besides, he is Chief Editor of the Journal for European Environmental and Planning Law (JEEPL) and Series Editor of the EELF Book Series. His research and teaching interests include EU substantive law and EU environmental, energy and climate law. Prof. Squintani has authored several publications in the areas of European environmental, energy and climate law. Prof. Squintani regularly advises Dutch, EU, and/or International institutions on (EU) environmental, energy and climate issues.
