Meet the people of IXA-GO and their areas of expertise!
IXA-GO supports research grants and valorisation of your research. Such as grants, starting a start-up or protecting your innovation.
For more information about the department go to the IXA-GO main page.
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
Anna Dahlman
Business Developer/Impact Developer Social & Behavioural Sciences, Expertise: Funding, Partnerships and Collaborations, Valorisation, and Societal Impact
Lorina Gjonaj
Business Developer Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Expertise: Helping researchers translate their ideas into market opportunities through business plan development and by fostering collaborations with public and private partners.
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
Diede Witkamp
Grants Advisor, Expertise: National and International consortium grant opportunities. Specialized in: Horizon Europe Pillar 2, MSCA-DN, EIC, Eurostars, NWO-OTP
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
Christos Latsos, PhD
Programme Manager Human Health and Wellbeing, Expertise: 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, 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
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