IXA-GO Team

Bettina Zijlstra

Head Department IXA-GO, Areas of focus: KTO director, Funding, valorisation and impact

Berno Bucker, PhD

Interim Head of Demonstrator Lab & Business developer Behavioural and Movement sciences , Focus areas: Psychological sciences, Movement science, Educational Science, Artificial Intelligence, Expertise: Business development, Entrepreneurship, Startups, Societal Impact, Knowledge transfer, Licensing, Intellectual property, Partnerships and Collaborations.

Peter Cirkel

Business developer Science faculty, Areas of focus: Funding, valorisatie en impact

Alba Herranz de la Nava

Business Developer Movement Sciences en MedTech, Areas of focus: Funding, valorisatie en impact

Maurijn de Heus

Impact and business developer, Focus areas: 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, Focus areas: 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, Focus Areas: 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, Aandachtsgebieden: EU affairs and policies; Aurora

Martijn van Houten

Grants compliance officer, Legal Entity Appointed Representative and Signing Official, Areas of focus: 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

Grant Advisor

Karin Rade

Grant Advisor, Areas of interest: 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

Grant Advisor, Areas of interest: 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

Grant Advisor, Areas of interest: 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

Grant Advisor, Areas of interest: National and International grant opportunities. Specialised in: NWO VENI/VIDI/VICI, ERC StG/CoG/AdG, MSCA PF, NWO-ENW Open Competition

Jitendra Badhai, PhD

Grant Advisor, Areas of interest: 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, Areas of interest: partnership building & management, transdisciplinary collaboration, funding & valorization.

Marie-Anne van Reijen

Programme Manager Secure & Inclusive Society

Christos Latsos, PhD

Programme Manager Human Health and Wellbeing, Focus Areas: Building strategic partnerships, supporting researchers in translating their work into societal impact, and developing innovation projects at the interface of human health, food, and sustainability

Yvonne Blokland, PhD

Programme Manager Human Centric AI, Focus areas: 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, Areas of focus: Evenementen, workshops en communicatie

Miriam Tijs

Communications and marketing officer

Anna Ressa, PhD

Biotech Booster TC4 Manager – Diagnostics & Services, Areas of focus: Life Sciences, diagnostics, valorisation, and impact

Eva Moreno Iglesias, PhD

Biotech Booster Business Developer TC5– Vaccines, Small Molecules and Platform Technologies, Areas of focus: Life Sciences, funding, valorisation, and impact

Lisanne Hameleers, PhD

Biotech Booster Business Developer TC-2 Agriculture & Food , Areas of focus: Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Functional Food, Protein Transition, Circular Ventures

Marco Tibaldi

ACN Director, Areas of Focus: Partnerships and Consortia Forming – Chemistry for Sustainability and Circularity – AI for Chemistry and Materials

Sandra Galvan Garcia

ACN Business Developer, Areas of Focus: Partnerships and Consortia Forming – Materials Science and Chemical Synthesis – Chemistry for Sustainability and Circularity