Meet the people of IXA-GO and our areas of expertise!
IXA-GO
IXA-GO Team
Meet the IXA-GO team.
Bettina Zijlstra
Head Department IXA-GO, Expertise: KTO director, Funding, Valorisation and Impact
Peter Cirkel
Business Developer Science faculty, Expertise: Funding, Valorisation en Impact
Maurijn de Heus
Impact and Business Developer, Expertise: Humanities, Religion and Theology, SSH-domain Expertise: Business development, Societal Impact, Entrepreneurship, Community building, Knowledge transfer, Licensing, Intellectual property and Patents, Partnerships and Collaborations, Startups
Dalila el Ouarrat
Business Developer Health & Life Sciences
Ties van Rappard
Business Developer Beta faculteit, Expertise: Beta & Social Sciences Expertise: Translating academic research and innovations to viable market propositions, Intellectual property and Patents, Licensing, Spin-off creation, Assessing Societal Impact
Kira Temme
Business Developer/Impact Developer Social & Behavioural Sciences, Expertise: Funding, Valorization and Societal Impact
Jan van de Loosdrecht
Intellectual Property and Innovation Manager, Expertise: Intellectual Property and Patents, IP training, Patent Searches, Licensing, Knowledge transfer
Pim de Boer
Senior Strategy Policy Advisor, Expertise: EU affairs and policies; Aurora
Martijn van Houten
Grants Compliance Officer, Legal Entity Appointed Representative and Signing Official, Expertise: providing support on all EU-awarded grants during the GAP-phase and post-award issues (e.g. amendments and other irregular issues), providing support by filling out annual forms which are neither financial nor legal (e.g.: commitment forms, financial questionnaires, due diligence forms, (sub)recipient annual audit forms, SF-425, W8Ben, etc.). Primary audit contact HEU. Managing and running VU-wide accounts (providing user accounts and assign roles) on several different submission platforms (ERC/MSCA/Erasmus, NIH, DUS-i, amongst others)
Sedef Iskit
Grants Advisor
Karin Rade
Grants Advisor, Expertise: National and International grant opportunities. Specialised in: MSCA DN and PF, Horizon Europe Pillar 2, ERC, NWA-ORC, Gravitation. External Working groups: EU-LO, EU cluster 5 and MSCA. Additional task: Prizes and Awards.
Fleur Verbiest
Grants Advisor, Expertise: national and international grant opportunities. Specialised in: ERC en MSCA-Doctoral Networks and Postdoctoral Fellowships. I am a co-organiser of the annual VU-wide ERC program (StG & CoG). External working groups: EARMA Impact, UniLiON Excellence. Additional task: Communication.
Robin Smith, PhD
Grants Advisor, Expertise: national and international grant opportunities. Specialised in: MSCA, Postdoctoral Fellowships, American funding opportunities, social science research funding (e.g., ISRF, ACLS, Wenner-Gren Foundation).
Scott Hayes, PhD
Grants Advisor, Expertise: National and International grant opportunities. Specialised in: NWO VENI/VIDI/VICI, ERC StG/CoG/AdG, MSCA PF, NWO-ENW Open Competition
Jitendra Badhai, PhD
Grants Advisor, Expertise: International and national grant opportunities; Funding, Innovation, Valorisation & Impact; Entrepreneurship & Startup. Specialized in: ERC (StG/CoG/AdG/SyG/PoC), KWF, Eurostars, & NIH grants.
Paul de Vries
Programme Manager Public Private Partnerships, Expertise: partnership building & management, transdisciplinary collaboration, funding & valorization.
Marie-Anne van Reijen
Programme Manager Secure & Inclusive Society
Yvonne Blokland, PhD
Programme Manager Human Centric AI, Expertise: AI for health, sustainability, social sciences and humanities; consortium building; interdisciplinary collaborations
Louis van Beek
Controller
Margreth Liefting
Management Assistant Innovation Exchange Amsterdam - Grants Office (VU IXA-GO)
Caroline Kleine Staarman
PR Manager, Expertise: Evenementen, workshops en communicatie
Miriam Tijs
Communications and marketing officer
Anna Ressa, PhD
Biotech Booster TC4 Manager – Diagnostics & Services, Expertise: Life Sciences, Diagnostics, Valorisation and Impact
Eva Moreno Iglesias, PhD
Biotech Booster Business Developer TC5– Vaccines, Small Molecules and Platform Technologies, Expertise: Life Sciences, funding, valorisation, and impact
Lisanne Hameleers, PhD
Biotech Booster Business Developer TC-2 Agriculture & Food , Expertise: Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Functional Food, Protein Transition, Circular Ventures
Marco Tibaldi
ACN Director, Expertise: Partnerships and Consortia Forming – Chemistry for Sustainability and Circularity – AI for Chemistry and Materials
Sandra Galvan Garcia
ACN Business Developer, Expertise: Partnerships and Consortia Forming – Materials Science and Chemical Synthesis – Chemistry for Sustainability and Circularity
