Appointed memberships (excluded conference organizations)

2016 - 2021                  Member of CBS platform Region and Space

2016 - 2021                  Member of CBS advisory board on Statistics of the Environment 

2016 - 2021                  Member scientific advisory board Ministry I&M (Law on the Environment)

2016 - 2023                  Member international review committee “Future City Research” (Tokyo City University, Japan)

2014 - Present              Diverse promotiecommissies, in binnenland (o.a. Rutayisire (UU), Van Stigt (UU), Bootsma (UU), McLinden Nuijen (UU), Eikelboom (VU), Komossa (VU), Champlin (TUD), McEvoy (TUD), Susetyo (TUD)) en in het buitenland (Boulange (University of Melbourne); Brits (Griffith University); Votsis (University of Helsinki))

2014 - 2015                  Invited panel member for reviewing strategic projects FWO (Belgisch NWO)

2010 – 2021                  Member of the Board of the Master of Science program GIMA (MSc Geographic Information Management and Applications)

2010 – 2014                  Member of the Master Board of Human Geography and Planning (UU)

2009 – 2021                  Member of the Spatial Decision Support (SDS) Consortium

2013 – 2021                  Chair of the International Board of Directors of the association of CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management)

2012 – 2021                  Member of the Steering Committee of the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission of Geographical Information Science (GIS)

2008 – 2013                  Member of the International Board of Directors of the association of CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management)

2008 – 2009                  Member of Advisory Committee of NL Geoland

2007 – 2008                  Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of BSIK-program ‘Ruimte voor Geo-Informatie’ (RGI), the National Research Programme for Geo-Information Sciences in the Netherlands

2003 – 2006                  Chair of the Section ‘Research’ of the national GIN (Geo-Informatie Nederland) organization

2003 – 2008                  First program director of GIMA (Interuniversity Master of Science in Geographical Information Management and Applications); collaboration of Utrecht University, Delft University of Technology; Wageningen University and Research Centre, and the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)

2003                             Member of NWO-assessment committee for archeological research

2002 – 2021                  Member of the national board of LUMOS (Land Use Modelling System)

2002 – 2005                  Member of the Management Team of the Educational Programme Human Geography and Planning, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University

2002 – 2005                  Chair of the Joint Master Programmes of the Educational Programme Human Geography and Planning, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University

2001                             EU-reviewer of EU Project ‘Planning Support for Sustainable Development’ (EU-PSSD, Lahti, Finland

2000                             Reviewer of WUR research program ‘Deltaprogramma Groene Ruimte; Koepelthema Gebiedsgericht, ontwerpgericht en op integratie gericht onderzoek’. Wageningen University and Research Centre

1996 – 2006                  Director of Nexpri (Dutch Expertise Centre for Spatial Information); appointment for 0.2 fte.

Appointed memberships Conference organization (conference management)

2019 – 2021                  Chair of the Scientific Committee of the CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management) Conference 2021 Helsinki, Finland

2017 – 2019                  Chair of the Scientific Committee of the CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management) Conference 2019 Wuhan, China

2015 – 2017                  Chair of the Scientific Committee of the CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management) Conference 2017 Adelaide, Australia

2013 – 2015                  Chair of the Scientific Committee of the CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management) Conference 2015 at MIT, Boston, USA

2011 – 2013                  Chair of the Scientific Committee and member of the Program Committee of the CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management) Conference 2013 in Utrecht, the Netherlands

2010 – 2011                  Chair of the AGILE Scientific Committee, April 2011, Utrecht, the Netherlands

2004 – 2006                  Member of Scientific Board of the International Conference on Design and Decision Support Systems (DDSS)

2000 – 2004                  Member of the Scientific Committee of the Conference Organization of GIN (Geo-Informatie Nederland)

1995 – 1999                  Chair of the Special Interest Group of Planning Support of the JECC Conferences (Joint European Conferences and Collaboration)

1995 – Present              Member of the Board of EGIS Conferences (European Conferences on Geographical Information Systems)

1990 – 1994                  Member of the organizing committee of EGIS conferences (European Conferences on Geographical Information Systems)