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, Areas of focus: Funding, valorisatie en impact

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, Areas of interest: National and International grant opportunities. Additional task: Privacy Champion. Specialised in: Horizon Europe Pillar 2, ERC, EIC, NWA-ORC. Working groups: Aurora RI WP2 co-lead, ODC Institutional Affairs, ARMA-NL Standing Committees: Roadmap NL, Professional Development for Grant Advisors, Knowledge Exchange - Meetings.

Marco Last

Grant Advisor, seconded to University of Humanist Studies in Utrecht , Areas of interest: National and International grant opportunities. Specialised in: NWO VENI/VIDI/VICI, ERC StG/CoG/AdG, MSCA PF, NWO-SGW Open Competition, Grant Writing Workshops.

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.

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.

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 Agrofood Biotechnology, Areas of focus: Life Sciences, Valorization, and Impact

Nadya Velikova, PhD PMP

Programme Manager Human Health & Food, Focus areas: Partnerships and Collaborations, Funding, Valorisation, Societal Impact

Lays da Cruz

ACN Business Developer , Areas of Focus: Partnerships and Consortia Forming – Chemistry for Life Sciences – AI for Molecular Sciences and Materials

Marco Tibaldi

ACN Manager & Business Developer , Areas of Focus: Partnerships and Consortia Forming – Chemistry for Sustainability and Circularity – AI for Chemistry and Materials