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Asset management professional with 25+ years of experience in the oil, gas and chemical industry. Ambition to bring asset management to the next maturity and excellence level by increasing quality of asset management information and extracting value from integrated data analytics.
Lecturer on asset management and material science courses for HZ University of Applied Sciences and the study programs Industrial Engineering and Management, Engineering and Maritime Officer. Experienced auditor of asset and safety management systems in support of best-in-class performance evaluations. IRCA certified auditor on Quality Management Systems. Qualified lecturer and coach for both industry professionals and university graduates. +
Jessica Melker is a researcher at the Excellence and Innovation in Education professorship. +
Jethro Waanders works as an application manager in the Expertise and Valorization Management research group. He works on the wiki environments (projectenportfolio.nl and deltaexpertise.nl), expertise management, and wiki software maintenance and expansion. Jethro has extensive experience as a developer and has worked on a large number of projects at both ICT companies and various governments in Zeeland. +
Joachim de Keijzer has over twenty years of work experience. He has been involved in a wide variety of civil engineering and building projects. As a teacher-researcher at HZ University of Applied Sciences, he is responsible for the practical application of science and technology in civil engineering projects.
As an advisor and structural engineer, his activities have included the design and calculation of bridges, tunnels, quay walls, jetties, fenders, weirs, sheds, offices, schools, hospitals and apartment complexes.
Joachim is a driven and enthusiastic team player with strong communication skills. Thanks to his extensive knowledge and experience, he recognises the main risks of a project and knows how to control them. +
Jolanda is a graduated sociologist and has been working as a researcher since 2005.
She focuses mainly on data in the broadest sense of the word and sees it as a challenge to translate figures to a wide audience. Jolanda has a lot of experience in monitoring and enjoys working on communication, quality and innovation. +
Jolene Cijsouw is a researcher at the Data Science research group and a lecturer in HBO ICT +
Joost Vette studied Industrial Design at TU Delft, with a focus on circular materials and 3D printing. For his thesis, he developed a 3D printing material from Zeeland mussel shells, as an example of the potential of 3D printing in a local, circular economy.
After his studies, he worked as a developer of circular materials at Bureau Waardenburg and currently at the start-up Fungalogic. Fungalogic aims to develop mycelium composites from Dutch biomass residues for applications in construction.
As of September 2018, Joost is employed at HZ, as a lecturer at the Architecture programme and junior researcher and project leader at the Biobased Building lectorate. His research mainly focuses on the development and marketing of mycelium composites. +
Jouke Heringa has been with the Water Management - Aquatic Ecotechnology program since 1995. He is also involved in the research group Aquaculture in Delta Areas and in Delta Platform.
His main activities are researching and advising project staff and researchers, maintaining the external network of practice-oriented (aquaculture) research and connecting initiatives in the Southwest Delta and North Sea.
His expertise is in the areas of inland and offshore aquaculture, Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture, water quality, aquatic ecology, modeling. +
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Dr. Kalina Mikolajczak-Degrauwe is coordinator and senior researcher at the Research Group Healthy Region.
Besides research activities she works as a psychologist in her own psychological practice.
With the background in psychology (Master of Arts, 2009) and marketing and consumer behaviour (PhD in Applied Economical Sciences), her main interests lie in factors influencing human behaviour in different contexts.
Previously affiliated with various universities as a lecturer or guest professor (Free University of Brussels, Ghent University, University of Antwerp and Breda University of Applied Sciences), to ultimately opt for practice-oriented research, as part of the Research Group Healthy Region. Fascinated by the psychic and physical potential of human beings, in her research work she focuses on projects empowering and stimulating people to healthy lifestyle. +
After completing her master's degrees in Geology and Geophysics from Utrecht University, Karin began her career in the IT services sector before transitioning to the energy sector (NAM and Shell) across various European locations (Assen, Rijswijk, London, Brussels). She held roles such as project manager in well engineering, knowledge and project manager within IT services, and business process manager in Real Estate. Her last role was in the merger and acquisition project management office for Shell Downstream.
In 2010, she switched to education. She gained extensive experience in international secondary education in Antwerp. In addition to teaching primarily applied sciences, she developed a multidisciplinary curriculum and teaching materials, and provided guidance to students, parents, and new teachers.
Since 2024, she has been the project leader of the Energy Campus project at HZ University of Applied Sciences. The project contributes to the transition to a climate-neutral Zeeland and establishes connections between education, research, and the business sector. +
Katleen Vallons has been working as a researcher with the Marine Biobased Chemistry research group since April 1, 2024. Her research focuses on developing healthy and sustainable food using local resources and waste streams.
She graduated as a bioengineer from the Catholic University in Leuven and earned her PhD at University College Cork, where she researched the development of texture in gluten-free bread through protein cross-linking. She further developed her expertise on the relationship between the quality of a food product, production processes, and ingredients during her subsequent years as a researcher and project manager at TNO.
Following that, Katleen worked as an R&D manager for Zeelandia and Barry Callebaut, where she learned to translate fundamental knowledge into practical solutions and innovative products. She aims to accelerate the food transition in Zeeland through practice-oriented research and make healthy and sustainable food accessible to everyone. +
Klaas R. Timmermans specializes in understanding the role of seaweeds in the marine environment, including the potential for seaweed biomass as a source of sustainable food and energy for the future.
He received his Ph.D. in Biology (cum laude) from the University of Amsterdam in 1986. From 1986-1991 he obtained his PhD on the effects of trace metals on Chironomid larvae (University of Amsterdam). In 1991 he defended his thesis entitled "Trace metal ecotoxicokinetics of chironomids.
Since 1991, Klaas Timmermans has been working as a (senior) scientist at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), first within the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geology, from 2008 to 2016 at the Department of Biological Oceanography and from 2016 as Head of Department at the Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems at NIOZ in Yerseke.
From September 1, 2014, Klaas Timmermans was appointed Honorary Professor of Marine Plant Biomass in the Department of Ocean Ecosystems in ESRIG: Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen at the University of Groningen (Faculty of Science and Engineering).
Since June 2019, he is lecturer Aquaculture in Delta Areas at HZ University of Applied Sciences. +
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Lennart Zoeter has been working as a researcher at the Biobased Construction research group since 2019.
As a student, he was also at HZ University of Applied Sciences in the Engineering program. He graduated in Design & Innovation (Product Design) on a study of 3D printing PHBV, a material that is highly biodegradable.
In addition to material development to make PHBV suitable for 3D printing, he designed a biodegradable bee hotel to show the possibilities of 3D printing in combination with PHBV.
As a researcher at the research group, he is involved in biobased materials development, product design and recycling of (thermoset) composites, among others. Lennart gets especially excited about working with students in applied research as well as designing products for the market to show the added value of biobased materials. +
Lies Hamelink is a researcher in the field of Water Technology at the HZ University of Applied Sciences. She graduated with a Bachelor Aquatic Ecotechnology from the same university in 2020. A few months later she joined the research group.
Lies will be working on the AquaSPICE project, by supporting the operational work and analyzing data for the case study Dow Terneuzen and Dow Böhlen. The focus of the AquaSPICE project is to reuse water streams in the process industries. A pilot with several water treatment technologies will be used to treat water streams to make them reusable. Besides that, she is involved in the TKI wetland project by mainly analyzing data gathered during the research. +
Lizet van Elzakker has been working as office manager since March 2021. After obtaining her master's degree in Social History from Erasmus University, she held various support positions in secondary and higher education. Within HZ Nexus, Lizet supports the account managers in their preparations for large projects. She is responsible for communication and she supervises the interns. +
Loek graduated in 2018 as a Software Engineer from the HBO-ICT program at HZ, after a detour from Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics at Utrecht University. After graduating from HZ, he started working as a lecturer at the program.
In 2022, he completed the master's degree in Software Engineering at the Open University. In the HBO-ICT program, Loek is involved in all years of study: from taking the first steps in programming to supervising graduating students.
In the Data Science lectureship, Loek is employed because of his knowledge of software engineering and deep learning. There he works on projects where there is a demand for data engineering of large amounts of data, after which that data is used to develop complex models.
An example is the AIRTuB project in which a drone is flown to wind turbines at sea. Once it arrives, the drone uses cameras and sensors to inspect the turbine blades for minor damage and erosion.
Another example is the fieldlab Autonomous Sailing in which a cab boat travels completely autonomously through Flushing harbor. A large number of sensors and cameras collect data, based on which the boat itself decides what action to take so that passengers arrive safely at their destination. +
Lotte Julia Bouwman joined the Aquaculture in Delta Areas research group as a researcher in March 2022.
She did her bachelor at Leiden University College and graduated with a master's degree in Marine Biology at the University of Amsterdam after several research projects including eel farming at WUR and zooplankton genetics at Naturalis.
Two of her theses have since been published as scientific papers. After her studies, she gained experience at Kingfish Zeeland as a junior production biologist.
Lotte Julia conducts research for several projects. For example, she is part of the research on saline cultivation and oyster farming in Waterdunen, works with local farmers for oyster breeding projects and is involved in an Erasmus+ project on RAS in education. +
Lotte Niemeijer graduated in 2019 with a master's degree in Marine Sciences and started working as a research assistant at Wageningen Marine Research in Yerseke.
Since 2021, she has been working at the Aquaculture in Delta Areas research group. Here she mainly focuses on projects related to the optimization of near-shore shellfish and seaweed cultivation techniques.
She collaborates with local farmers and supervises students in their research projects. +
Luc received his master's degree in General Economics from Tilburg University in 2005.
Between 2005 and 2020 he worked, as a (senior) researcher and project leader at Statistics Netherlands (CBS). Since 2021, he has been working as a senior researcher at HZ Knowledge Center Zeeland Society. Luc has an affinity with socioeconomic issues and is in his strength in collaboration and innovation. +
Lukas Papenborg is a lecturer-researcher at the Resilient Deltas research group of the HZ.
He specializes in spatial issues in delta regions with a special focus on the integration of water management issues in complex urbanization processes worldwide.
Lukas studied Urban Planning and Water Management at TU Delft and University of Antwerp, respectively. Within the research group, he investigates the connecting role of spatial planning for a resilient delta. In addition to his work at the research group, he teaches and supervises students in their research projects. +