Elmer Sterken (Apeldoorn, 1961) has been Professor of Monetary Economics at the University of Groningen since 1996. He graduated with honours in Econometrics at Groningen in 1983, where he also gained his PhD in Economics in 1990 with a thesis entitled DUFIS.An econometric model of the Dutch financial system. He subsequently led a successful career at the University of Groningen and was appointed professor-director of the National Network for Business Economics in 1994. He has been visiting professor at universities in Germany (Munich), Japan (Osaka and Kobe) and the US (Atlanta).
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Theunis Piersma is professor of Animal Ecology. Together with his international research team, he studies how the distribution and numbers of waders correlate to climate, food, predators, pathogens and their historical-genetic background.Piersma also works as a Wadden biologist for the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and is one of the greatest advocates of conservation of the Wadden Sea. In 2009 he was appointed to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science and in 2014 was awarded a Spinoza Price, known as the "Dutch Nobel Prize".
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In 1996 Berthold Gunster, theater producer and director, started the company Yes-but. Nowadays, the company has grown to an organization with many actors, who spread the flipped-thinking philosophy via workshops, clinics and theater shows. Berthold Gunster also wrote many books, such as the bestseller "Yes-but, what if it all works out?".
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Menno de Bree (1974) studied philosophy and worked as a philosopher at Heineken and Nyenrode Business University. He works at the University Medical Centre Groningen since 2003, where he teaches ethics to students and specialists-in-training. Furthermore, at his company, "Menno Denkt", he gives lectures and teaches in thinking for professionals. De Bree is a highly-sought speaker and has won various awards in education.
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Currently living in Gothemburg, Sweden, Bert has work in multiple aspects of industry for the last few decades, until he decided to quit it all to start his own biotech company.
Currently starting a new biotech company.
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Jan Blaauw is a PhD Candidate about to finish his studies and a student representative at the University Council (RuG). He believes that the University's administration requires alert scrutiny and feedback from its student and employee representatives to be able to improve and change according to the current challenges of the world.
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Ludwine Dekker holds a Bachelor in Interactive Media and a Master of Science in Digital Humanities. The last four years she's been working as an Investment Marketeer and Campaign Manager for Symbid The Funding Network. She has been coaching over 40 entrepreneurs in executing their digital fund raising campaigns and strategically manages the fund raising trajectories for equity crowdfunding. In addition, she's written about entrepreneurship, finance and technology for over more than 20 websites and magazines, gives workshops on a regular basis and has been recently announced as the nr. 11 Crowdfunding Expert worldwide.
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Prof Aard Groen is the Dean of the Center of Entreprenurship (UCGE) and professor of entrepreneurship and valorization at the RuG; he is also professor of Innovative Entrepreneuroship and Valorisation at the University of Twente.
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Robert Henning is Professor of Pharmacology at the UMCG. He studied medicine and especialized in anesthesiology with a PhD in Pharmacology, which led him into research instead of clinical practice. His main focus is to understand how organs are protected during hibernation and how this mechanism can be translated to humans. He has patented several of his findings and has been involved in 3 start-up companies, still succesfull. He loves speed cycling, computerology, and cultural festivals.
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Master degree in law (the Free University of Amsterdam (1975))
PhD in business and organization (University of Groningen (1988)).
Professor in business law since 1990.
Specialization: cooperation and completion (between entrepreneurs (franchising), between employer and employee (HRM, labour law), between entrepreneur and society (corporate social responsibility).
Member of the Senate from 1999 until 2003 and from 2007 until 2015 for the liberal party. President of the Committee for economic affairs and member of the committee for social affairs and for legal affairs. Among others member of the non-executive board of Wolters Kluwer Nederland and a local Rabobank.
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Sangbreeta Moitra is a member of Toastmasters International Club, that helps its members to develop their public speaking skills.

"I'm a professional public speaker and communications' coach in the Netherlands. I won Dutch Nationals and European levels of public speaking championship in 2013 & 2014; since then I'm on a journey to help others find their speaker within."
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Dr. Henk Mulder has been Coordinator of the Science Shop of Groningen University since 1989. The Science Shop mediates research requests from civil society organisations and finds students and staff who will do research on these questions, as part of the curriculum. Henk is also Lecturer in Science & Society Studies and Head of the Educational Board of the 2-year Master Program Science Communication. He led the EU funded project PERARES (Public Engagement with Research and Research Engagement with Society), which ran from 2010 to November 2014. Henk holds an MSc in Chemistry and a PhD in Energy and Environmental Sciences and was one of the initiators for the international science shop network Living Knowledge.
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Studied Biophysics in Leiden University and wrote a thesis (awarded “cum laude”) on the functional anatomy and evolution of cichild fishes, which was given a national award for its originality. Worked in the Free University Amsterdam on human muscles for three years. Since 1984 working on neuromechanics of human movements. Has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University for six short summer periods. Since 2005 he is professor of NeuroMechanics at the University Medical Center Groningen, division Human Movement Sciences. He wrote 140 international papers on a wide variety of subjects, but with the coupling theme of integration in living organisms. Since 1984 he is part of the management team of scientific groups, from neurobiology, to medical physiology, rehabilitation and human movement science. Presently the main focus of research is on the neuromechanics and the mutual adaptation of humans and their prostheses. There is a close collaboration between several firms (OIM, Motek, IMDS), clinics (Beatrixoord, Revalidatie Friesland) and scientific groups on adaptation of human movement control. Presently he is responsible for ten graduate students, writing theses in the area of arm, leg and foot prosthetics, as well as adaptive control after cruciate ligament rupture and the field of embodied cognition.
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Petra Rudolf is full Professor of experimental solid state physics at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, RuG. She participated as Editor in Chief of the European Physical Journal from 2003 to 2008. She has been consultant at the European Comission for Material Science, participated in multiple research institutes, supervised over 20 students and postdocs, and coordianted multiple networks of researchers in her field. She has given lectures on the ethicals aspects of research to students from the Graduate School of Science and answered many questions regarding PhD rights and duties.
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Anton Scheurink is Professor of Neuroendocrinology in the Centre for Behaviour and Neurosciences.†He worked in the US as a postdoc and as a research coordinator in the Anorexia Center of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. In 2015 he was voted Lecturer of the Year. He loves to talk about the implementation of theory and development in the fields of energy, balance, diabetes, obesity and anorexia nervosa.
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After graduating from high school, Jonas started his own company in ìinstigating beautiful things. He wants to create flow, play, inspire and make beautiful things happen. He ís an experienced presenter and trainer in public speaking.
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Marloes is a science journalist and presentor at De Kennis van Nu (translated: Todays Knowledge). This is a science program on radio and television from the NTR (public broadcast). Marloes started her career in media with an internschip at a scientific television series, then became an researcher for the radioprogram of De Kennis van Nu. Now the shifted to television where she does the research for scientific news, presents it at the television show De Kennis van Nu Nieuws and edits short videos.
She studied Biology in Groningen (bachelors degree) and after this completed the master Science Communication.
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Prof. dr. H.B.M. van de Wiel (1955) wrote his Ph.D thesis (cum laude) in 1991 on ‘Sexual functioning after gynecological cancer treatment’. From 1998 until now he has a full professorship in Health Psychology in the University Medical Centre in Groningen (the Netherlands). His current specializations are Communication & Collaboration, Clinical Leadership, Medical Education and E-health. He has received many awards for his work on patient education and counseling, especially on patient empowerment.
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As an independent data science consultant and trainer, Jeroen helps companies to get the most out of their data. Previously, he was a Lead Data Scientist at Elsevier in Amsterdam. Prior to that, he worked in New York City at YPlan and Visual Revenue (which got acquired by Outbrain). Recently, Jeroen wrote a book titled Data Science at the Command Line. Jeroen has an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from Maastricht University and a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Tilburg University. He blogs here and tweets here

Sander Timmer completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge and EMBL ñ European Bioinformatics Institute specialising in Big Data Biology. His PhD focused mainly on integrating large-scale genomic datasets to further our understanding of the human epigenome. At Microsoft he is working as a Data Scientist Consultant, helping enterprise customers utilising the Microsoft Azure cloud platform for their data heavy problems. Within this role he is building Internet-of-Things, Big Data, and Machine Learning solutions.Twitter and tweets LinkedIn

Marie-Jose Bonthuis works for several health organizations as an external legal advisor (ITís Privacy) and Data Protection Officer, and also for the biobank LifeLines. She has a special focus on law and IT. Her field of expertise is the development of the Dutch Electronic Patient Records. In her opinion privacy is a parameter for good service, rather than a trade-off.

Alex den Haan (1976) joined AcademicTransfer, the niche job board for academics, in 2007. In his role as Client Services Manager he frequently visits Universities to meet with people involved in recruitment and HR.†Since it is AcademicTransfer's mission to bring the supply and demand of scientists and researchers together Alex is also often invited to host sessions for employees, to inform them about what Social Media can contribute to scientist and researchers throughtout their careers. His professional and personal interest in all things Internet plus background in Marketing Communications ensure insightfull interactions.
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