The position as managing director of the Department of Earth Sciences combines 'business' with 'policy and content'. For one part it concerns responsibilities for a number of financial and administrative issues, coordinating housing issues, social affairs, internal communication, etc. 

The other part is giving guidance to the department's strategies for research, education, impact and HR. In this, I also have coordinating or steering roles in responding to outside directives (faculty, university, ministry), in providing adequate management information for the university, its partners, and its 'peers', etc.

Basically, through this position I operate in the heart of the department.

Since 2019, I combine these tasks with the position of managing director of the Earth Simulation Laboratory (ESL), one of the main laboratories of the Faculty of Geosciences.

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I represent the Department in the Supervisory Board of the Stichting Geowetenschappelijke Activiteiten (Georeizen).