All Honorary Doctorates

One of the Co-Chairs of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). She was identified as one of the 100 most influential people worldwide in climate policy...read more

World leading expert in cyber security. She is currently Chief Information Securtiy Officer (CISO) at Avast.

Theoretical physicist and former President of the Royal Netherlands of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Initiator of changes in science in the Netherlands, by leading the reorganisation of Dutch Research Council NWO.

'Special Envoy' for TechLeap.nl, formerly known as Startup Delta. He is an active ambassador of startup companies.

Leading biomechatronics expert at the Media Lab at MIT, Cambridge Massachusetts. Ever since he lost both his lower legs caused by hypothermia during mountain climbing, he put a lot of effort in developing prostheses that he actually wears and tests himself.

Former Secretary of State, Minister, President of Nyenrode Business School, European Commissioner. Influencer in digital transformaten. Ambassador of startup companies, in 'Startup Delta'.

Pioneer of microscopy techniques like Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). Member of the team of Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, who received the Nobel Prize for STM. Gerber succeeded in transtorming their theories into working devices.

Statistician and artist, Professor emeritus at Yale University. He is known for his ideas on visualizing data. His books on 'good visualisation' are true standard works.

For Discovery Channel, they tested many 'urban myths': is it true, will it really work? For this, they developed spectacular experiments, preferably with explosions. Jamie and Adam, in this way, get lots of young people excited for science and technology

Chair of the European Research Council until 2014, Professor of Social Studies of Science at the ETH Zurich. Prof Nowotny did a lot of research on the social, ethical and political implications of science and technology.

As the Director of the Australian Institute of Technology (AIT), Wolfgang Knoll is a truly multidisciplinary physicist: he is a leading expert in materials science, biointerfaces and bionanotechnology.

Dutch pioneer in biotechnology. Former CEO of the US based company Genzyme, that develops so-called 'orphan drugs', medication for rare diseases and especially for children.