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Faculty Office

The FSE Faculty Office supports the Faculty Board by developing, implementing and communicating the faculty's strategy, policy and decision-making. Meanwhile, the Faculty Office also establishes and strengthens connections between the faculty and partners within and outside the university.

Head Faculty Office

Peter Timmerman
Working days: Mon-Fri

Peter Timmerman

Policy director FSE

  • Coordination of strategy and policy development FSE
  • Advice to the Faculty Board
  • Governance, organization, administrative affairs

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Secretariat Faculty Board

Mathilde Engelsma-van Ommen
Working days: Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri

Mathilde Engelsma-van Ommen

Secretary to the Faculty Board  

  • Coordination of tasks of the secretariat
  • Preparation and handling of requests for the Faculty Board
  • Support and monitoring appointment procedures scientific staff

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Joanna Doerman
Working days: Mon-Fri

Joanna Doerman

Management office assistant

  • Agenda management Faculty Board, in particular Dean and Vice Dean
  • Support policy advisors education
  • Support complaints officer FSE
  • General tasks secretariat Faculty Office

j.doerman rug.nl

Diana Alfons
Working days: Mon-Fri 8.30-15.00

Diana Alfons

Management office assistant

  • Agenda management, in particular Managing Director of the Faculty
  • Support policy advisors research and fundraising and Privacy & Security
  • General tasks secretariat Faculty Office

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Iris Huizinga
Working days: Mon-Thu,
Fri. morning

Iris Huizinga

Management office assistant

  • Support Faculty Board events
  • Support Science LinX
  • General tasks secretariat Faculty Office

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Policy education and research

Alicia Streppel
Working days: Mon-Thu

Alicia Streppel

Policy advisor education

  • Advice education policy
  • Quality assurance education

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Anna Marije van der Leest
Working days: Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri

Dorien Daling

Policy advisor education

  • Advice Faculty Board and SSE education policy
  • Complaints coordinator FSE
  • Appointments
  • Binding Study Advice

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Kim Susanna
Working days: Mon

Kim Susanna

Secretary FSE Research Ethics committee

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Deborah Bozzato
Working days: Tue

Deborah Bozzato

Project leader Smarter Academic Year

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Alicia Brandt
Working days: Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri

Alicia Brandt

Policy advisor research and research quality assurance

  • Research policy
  • Research quality assurance (SEP)
  • Research ethics (non-WMO)
  • Sector plans science and engineering

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Working days: Mon - Fri

Marco Koopman

Policy advisor education

  • Secretary Management Team SSE

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Liza ten Velde
Working days: Mon-Thu

Liza ten Velde

Policy advisor internationalization

  • Internationalization policy
  • International partnership management
  • Knowledge Security
  • Double doctorate collaboration

l.ten.velde rug.nl

Karen Voskamp
Working days: Mon

Karen Voskamp

Policy advisor engineering

  • Engineering policy (research and education)
  • Coordinator Groningen Engineering Center

k.e.voskamp rug.nl

Ronald Zwaagstra
Working days: Mon-Fri

Ronald Zwaagstra

Policy advisor ICT

  • IT policy FSE
  • Demand management
  • Privacy and Security coordinator
  • Research data management

r.zwaagstra rug.nl

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Working days: Mon-Thu

Carl de Boer

Privacy and security coordinator

  • Research data management

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Research, Strategy and Partnerships team (RSP)

Victor Stoica
Working days: Mon-Fri

Victor Stoica

Team head | Business development manager

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  • Building and managing public-private partnerships (PPPs) with industry partners
  • Developing and implementing strategies for intellectual property (IP) and valorization
  • Supporting start-up formation
  • Advising on ancillary activities and conflicts of interest
  • Developing sustainable strategic partnerships with relevant stakeholders
  • Supporting Deeptech innovation programs and fellowships
  • Strengthening regional innovation ecosystems (such as Campus Groningen)
Mark Kas
Working days: Mon-Fri

Mark Kas

Faculty funding officer

  • Advising institutes on acquiring (large) research grants (NWO, ERC, SNN etc), incl. support from faculty and university
  • Coordinating nominations for strategically important memberships and awards
  • Development and implementation regarding China of the internationalization policy

mark.kas rug.nl

Wanli Zheng
Working days: Mon-Wed

Wanli Zheng

Project manager cooperation China

w.zheng rug.nl

Matthijs de Jong
Working days: Mon-Fri

Matthijs de Jong

Coordinator Science and Engineering Business Center

matthijs.de.jong rug.nl

Samantha Janssen

Coordinator Beethoven FSE

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Data & Analytics team

Jan-Willem Brijan
Working days: Mon-Fri

Jan-Willem Brijan

Team head | project manager

  • Promote data informed decision making
  • Project leader Analytics for Teaching and Learning
  • Advise the FB and SSE on education policy

j.w.a.brijan rug.nl

Antonio Giuliani
Working days: Mon-Fri

Antonio Giuliani

Data scientist

  • Enable data informed decision making
  • Support the faculty office, projects, teachers, and support staff with analytics and IT solutions
  • Answer questions using data (focused on education)
  • Study progress overview for academic advisors

antonio.giuliani rug.nl

Elly Jannink
Working days: Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri

Elly Jannink

Data scientist

  • Enable data informed decision making
  • Support the faculty office, projects, teachers, and support staff with analytics
  • Superuser BI Portal Education
  • Plan Coordinator

e.m.j.jannink rug.nl

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Working days: Mon-Fri

Jonas Bremer

Data scientist

  • Enable data informed decision making with a strong focus on Beethoven related degree programmes and projects
  • Support the faculty office, projects, teachers, and support staff with analytics and IT solutions
  • Plan support

j.g.bremer rug.nl

FSE Corporate Communications team (FCC)

Mariëlle Zwaanenburg
Working days: Mon-Fri

Mariëlle Zwaanenburg

Team head | Head of Communications FSE

  • Communication policy FSE
  • Communication advice
  • Corporate & internal communications
  • Press advice on FSE corporate subjects

m.e.l.zwaanenburg rug.nl

Joris de Tomasi
Working days: Mon-Fri

Joris de Tomasi

Communications advisor

  • Communication for the Faculty Board
  • Organisation corporate events
  • Corporate news large grants and prizes (for research news: fse.sciencenewsroom rug.nl), FSE LinkedIn
  • Internal communication

j.g.de.tomasi rug.nl

Monique Bosma-Koers
Working days: Mo/Tue/Thu

Monique Bosma-Koers

Web coordinator | User Experience Designer

  • Coordinator FSE web pages (internal and external)
  • Questions and rights assigning Apollo/Prospero
  • Web statistics
  • Advice on web structures & user-friendly webpages

m.bosma-koers rug.nl

Science LinX (SLX)

Renske de Jonge
Working days: Mon-Fri

Renske de Jonge

Team head

  • Project management
  • (extern) Curator WEC (Wadden Experience Center)

r.m.de.jonge rug.nl

Ingeborg Veldman
Working days: Daily 8.30-15.00

Ingeborg Veldman

Project leader

  • Science LinX expositions

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Theo Jurriens
Working days: Mon-Fri

Theo Jurriens

Communications advisor

  • Discovery Truck (Jouw Energie van Morgen)

t.a.jurriens rug.nl

Brenda Kah
Working days: Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri

Brenda Kah

Science support service

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Eva Teuling
Working days: Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu

Eva Teuling

Project manager societal impact

e.teuling rug.nl

Niels Alberts
Working days: Mon-Thu

Niels Alberts

Coordinator Beta Science Shop

  • Projectleader Curious / Meet-o-Theek

n.alberts rug.nl

Henk Mulder
Working days: Tue/Thu

Henk Mulder

Coordinator Beta Science Shop

h.a.j.mulder rug.nl

Karin de Boer
Working days: Mon/Thu

Karin de Boer

Coordinator Beta Science Shop

m.k.de.boer rug.nl

Science News Room (SNR, Science LinX)

Rene Fransen
Working days: Tue/Wed.mo./Thu

Rene Fransen

Head editor

  • Coordinator FSE Science Newsroom
  • Editor in chief

r.fransen rug.nl

Alice Spruit
Working days: Mon/Tue/Thu

Alice Spruit

Content strategist

  • Content strategy FSE Science Newsroom
  • Communication advice public engagement scientists
  • Sustainability research web page

a.a.spruit rug.nl

Charlotte Vlek
Working days: Mon/Tue/Thu

Charlotte Vlek

Editor science communication

  • Science News
  • PhD summaries (Hora Finita)
  • Science LinX news letter

c.s.vlek rug.nl

Leoni von Ristok
Working days: Mon/Tue/Wed/Fri

Leoni von Ristok

Visual editor

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