Professor Rianne Letschert (1976) studied Dutch Law and International Law at Tilburg University, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Montpellier and received her PhD in 2005.  Her research focuses on the impact of international tribunals on societies and people who are confronted with serious violations of human rights and international crimes. Since 1 September 2016, Professor Letschert is Rector Magnificus of Maastricht University. She is member of the Supervisory Board of Catharina Hospital Eindhoven and the Bonnefanten museum Maastricht. She is member of the Board of Trustees of Redress the Netherlands. In 2019, she was awarded the title Topwoman of the year in the Netherlands.

Jeroen Geurts Jeroen Geurts studied neurobiology at the University of Amsterdam and during his studies, he conducted research into the nervous disorder amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). After his studies, he obtained his PhD cum laude from the Free University for research into gray matter damage in multiple sclerosis (MS). In addition to being head of the Department of Anatomy & Neurosciences, he is also on the board of Neuroscience Amsterdam and the MS center VUmc. >From 2017 he has been chairman of ZonMw and member of the executive board of NWO.

Paul Boselie is a full professor in Public Administration & Organization Science at the Utrecht University School of Governance (USG), Utrecht University. He is Head of Department of USG and the chair of the UU Rewards & Recognition program. Paul’s expertise is in the area of human resource management and performance within education, health care and government. The UU Rewards & Recognition program is one of the four subthemes of the UU Open Science program.

Reina Buijs is Director of the Human Resources and Organisation Department at the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The department is responsible for the development of HR-policy of the Ministry, including Leadership and Management Development as also the Academy for International Affairs.

Reina has a background in international Public Health and Nutrition. She joined the Ministry in 2001 and has held advisory and management positions in the policy fields of Nutrition and Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and HIV/Aids and civil society strengthening and relations with NGOs as well as Multilateral Organisations. From 2011–2013 she was The Netherlands’ ambassador in Nicaragua. Between 2014 – 2018 she was deputy Director General International Cooperation, from 2018 – 2019 Director General International Cooperation. Before joining the ministry she worked in Ecuador, Nicaragua and Zimbabwe.

Elke van Cassel is program manager Recognition & Rewards at Tilburg University. She has extensive experience as senior policy advisor in the field of research and societal impact and serves – in addition to her role within the Recognition & Rewards program – as secretary to the board of the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences.

Rosanne Anholt is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, where she is finalizing her dissertation on resilience policies in the context of international security and humanitarian action. She is also Chair of the PhD Network Netherlands, which is committed to formulating a vision on recognition and rewards for PhD candidates, that takes into account the quality of the dissertation rather than the number of articles or chapters, as well as the many and diverse other tasks that PhD candidates often carry out during their trajectory.

Annemijn Algra is a neurologist in training at the UMC Utrecht, an academic teaching hospital where she combines her clinical work with stroke research (PhD @UtrechtUni & Visiting Research Fellow @OxfordUni).

With Young Science in Transition (#YoungSiT) - a group of Early Career Researchers (#ECRs) - we currently work on various projects (#openscience, #recognitionrewards, #teamscience) to improve the daily activities of ECRs (follow us on Twitter @SciTransitYoung).

Prof. Dr. Victor Bekkers is dean of the Erasmus School of Social and Behavorial Sciences and chair of the EUR-wide committee "recognition and appreciation". He is also professor of public administration at Erasmus University. His research mainly focuses on the role of ICT and innovation in policy and management processes in the public sector.Within his own faculty, he started two years ago with the implementation of different types of profiles, outside the standard profile, that do justice to the need for more differentiation and the development of alternative career paths, as advocated by recognition and appreciation.

Wilfred Mijnhardt is passionate for universities, business schools, responsible research, excellence and impact. He has vast experience in institutional advancement and is a pioneer in academic policy development and building support infrastructures to strengthen the quality, productivity, viability, social and academic impact of research and the academic career-paths of researchers. In his current role, his energy focusses on the strategic transition of RSM and EUR towards impact driven institutions. Internationally he is an active member in networks like RRBM, AACSB, EFMD and PRME.

Henk Bolk

Dr. Henk Bolk was educated in sociology and management by Erasmus University Rotterdam and he worked at the EUR as researcher and assistant professor.

After his PhD-graduation he became partner of a management consultancy firm, spin-off of RSM, in which quality he implemented his knowledge and experience on the field of change management a.o. in numerous European research projects on flexible manufacturing systems. The past 15 years he focused on Dutch clients as management consultant and interim manager on organizational development and human resources, also the  EUR. Since a few years he (again) is employed by the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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Annemie Schols is professor of Nutrition and Metabolism in Chronic Diseases at Maastricht University since 2004. Her team focuses on translational metabolic research in COPD and lung cancer with a specific focus on cachexia. From 2006-2020 she was scientific director of the Research School NUTRIM at the Faculty of Health Medicine and Lifesciences (FHML). Since 1-6-2020 she is Dean of FHML and Vice-president of the Executive Board of Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC+).

Nynke Jansen is an organisational change and HR consultant. She held a broad range of HR leadership roles in international organisations, including HR director at Delft University of Technology. She designed the Recognition and Reward change programme together with Liebje Paalman.

Liebje Paalman is an organisational change consultant. She worked within multiple universities in a range of change projects and worked as an assistant professor 'Change management' at the RSM/EUR. She designed the Recognition and Reward change programme together with Nynke Jansen.

Dr. Sander Bosch  is the Programme Manager Open Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He was trained as a computational neuroscientist at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, where he obtained his PhD in 2016. At the VU, he initiates and coordinates projects on Open Access, Open Education, Open Evaluation, Research Data Management and Public Engagement. Furthermore, he is part of the VU Committee for Recognition & Rewards and the NPOS Accelerate Open Science team.

Jeroen Sondervan is open access publishing consultant at Utrecht University Library. In 2019 he has been appointed as project leader open access as part of the UU Open Science program. He has a background in media studies and scholarly publishing and his expertise is in the fields of scholarly communication, open infrastructures, open access and open science.

Tanya Bondarouk is a full professor of Human Resource Management and Technology at the University of Twente (UT). She is the head of the HRM research department and the co-chair of the UT Recognition & Rewards program. Tanya is recognized as one of the founders of the electronic Human Resource Management discipline that integrates HRM and digital developments in organizations. In 2018 Tanya was awarded an honorary Best Dutch HRM Scientist award. Since 2017, she is leading the research into Talent Development in Academia. The UT Recognition & Rewards program is integrated in the Shaping Individuals & Teams movement in the UT Shaping 2030 Strategy.

Dr Roeland van der Rijst is an associate professor at the Leiden University. Currently het is director of the department of Higher education Research & Development (ICLON). Many of his current projects are connected to the field of teaching and learning in higher education. He has now 70+ publications in a variety of international scholarly journals, books and professional outlets. In 2018 he receive the fellowship of the Leiden teacher academy for his outstanding teaching. Among others he is editor of various national and international journals, among others the International Journal of Academic Development and Pedagogische Studien. Furthermore he is board member of the Netherlands Educational Research Association.

Margje van de Wiel is a cognitive psychologist working at the department of Work & Social Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience at Maastricht University. She is coordinator of the University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) and currently chairs WUO, where representatives of all Dutch universities discuss development of teaching staff. Her research focuses on expertise development, professional learning, professional decision-making, and learning in higher education. She teaches a course on Human Resources, trains and coaches in the UTQ programme, and coordinates Educational Lunches for teaching staff at her faculty. In all her roles, she aims to motivate and connect colleagues and students to apply sound theory and collect data to improve practice.

Jaap Mulder currently serves as the team lead of Educational Staff Development at the University of Groningen. He is involved in organizing programmes such as "Start to Teach" for PhD students, the University Teaching Qualification for new teachers, as well as the STQ-programme and Educational Leadership Programme for experienced teachers. He is also the current president of EHON (the national network in the Netherlands concerned with promoting good practice in higher education), and a member of both the WUO and the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) council--which promotes educational and academic development in higher education internationally.