People
Dr. Erik Rietveld & Ronald Rietveld
Dr. Erik Rietveld is a Senior Researcher at the University of Amsterdam (AMC/Department of Philosophy/ILLC/Brain & Cognition) and a Founding Partner of RAAAF [Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances]. Erik Rietveld was a Fellow in Philosophy at Harvard University and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley’s Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. His philosophical and interdisciplinary research on ‘Unreflective Action’ was awarded by the European Science Foundation (2009), the University of Amsterdam (2009), the Academic Medical Center (AMC in 2011 and 2014), and three times by NWO, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (Rubicon 2008, VENI 2009). In 2013 his new research project on ‘Skilled Action’ titled ‘The Landscape of Affordances: Situating the Embodied Mind’ was awarded with a NWO VIDI-grant for the development of his research group on skilled intentionality & action. Recently he received an ERC Starting Grant for a new philosophical project titled ‘Skilled Intentionality for ‘Higher’ Embodied Cognition: Joining Forces with a Field of Affordances in Flux’.
Ronald Rietveld graduated with honors from the Academy of Architecture Amsterdam in 2003. His graduation plan "Delta Works 2.0" was one of the winners at Archiprix 2004. After winning the Prix the Rome Architecture 2006 he – together with his brother founded RAAAF [Rietveld Architecture - Art - Affordances]: a multidisciplinary studio operating at the crossroads of architecture, science and art. The work addresses complex societal issues. RAAAF's work has been published and exhibited worldwide at leading art and architecture biennials such as those of São Paulo, Istanbul and Venice. Rietveld has won several prestigious prizes with the studio. The various juries emphasize the ability of the studio to cross and stretch disciplinary boundaries of architecture, science and art. Furthermore, Ronald Rietveld often gives lectures at symposiums and conferences. Together with Erik Rietveld he set up the Master's Program "Studio Vacant NL" at the Sandberg Institute (Gerrit Rietveld Academy) in 2011. He was guest lecturer at several other Dutch academies such as Design Academy Eindhoven and the Academies of Architecture in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Rietveld was member of several juries as well.
On invitation by the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) RAAAF was curator of the Dutch submission to the 12th Architecture Biennale of Venice in 2010. In 2013 RAAAF was elected Radical Innovator and were elected Dutch Architect of the Year. RAAAF contributed an architectural art installation to the new Chicago Architecture Biennale in 2015, the first in North America. Ronald and Erik Rietveld were recently invited to become members of The Society of Arts of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
Prof. dr. Ingrid Molema
Ingrid Molema is professor of Life Sciences at the University of Groningen, and chair of the Dutch Network of Women Professors (LNVH). Molema studied Pharmacy and obtained a PhD from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Groningen. After a 2-year postdoctoral training in the USA, she returned to the Netherlands to start her own research group at the Medical Faculty (UMCG) of the University of Groningen as a fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). In 2004 she was appointed full professor and from 2010 – 2013 she was head of the section Medical Biology at UMCG.
Ingrid was trained as a pharmacologist and research in her group focusses on effects of drugs (specifically delivered into cells at the site of disease or administered as such) on the microvasculature in tumors and in conditions of shock (septic shock, hemorrhage associated shock). In the academic year 2009-2010 Ingrid broadened her scientific scope regarding vascular biology as a visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Ingrid is involved in Bachelor, Master, and Graduate School educational programs, and also actively engages in ‘kids university RUG’ and high school science education programs (including ‘scholierenacademie’). She furthermore trains PhD students and young academic staff as part of her temporary part-time appointment at the University of Groningen Talent Development and Graduate School team.
Ingrid joined the board of LNVH in September 2015 and was appointed chairman per January 2016. She wants to contribute to an academic work environment that stimulates all to excel, irrespective gender, nationality, religion: ‘By embracing diversity and stimulating respect for all, academia will become more effective in providing high quality academic education and research’.
Prof. dr. Barend van der Meulen
Barend van der Meulen is head of research at the Dutch Rathenau Institute and is endowed professor Evidence for Science Policy at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University.
He has over 25 year experience in science policy, and research on the dynamics of science and science policy, and on the policy instruments used for science policy. Barend van der Meulen's publications have examined diverse aspects research policy including research evaluation, foresight and research funding, the 'Europeanization' of science, impact of science. He has several publications on history and development of the Dutch research system. Recent research includes projects on the Future of Universities, academic careers and the organisation of challenge driven research.
He is member of the Board of the Graduate School WTMC and member of the international advisory board of the Research master Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology at Maastricht University. Recently he was expert member of panels for the evaluation of research councils in Lithuania and Hungary and for the review of the EU-Australia S&T agreement.
Barend van der Meulen received its PhD at the University of Twente for a thesis on the rise of evaluation practices in the Dutch research system in the 1980s. Between 1992 and 1996, he was a researcher and policy advisor to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Until April 2009, he was associate professor with the Science, Technology and Policy Studies department at the University of Twente.
Dr. Frank Kupper
Dr. Frank Kupper works at the crossroads of science and society. As an assistant professor of Science Communication at the Athena Institute, VU University Amsterdam, he contributes to the dialogue between science and society. Frank studied biology and philosophy and received his PhD degree for a design of a democratic ethics for animal biotechnology. Beside his academic work, Frank started ‘Mens-in-de-Maak’ as a laboratory for public thinking. As a moderator of workshops and events, he likes to combine his passions for science and theatre. He uses creative techniques, such as theatrical improvisation, for a playful reflection on the dynamics of science, politics and culture.
