Join us in marking 10 years of shared ‘4TU’ alumni activities in the USA with special activities taking place in june celebrating our communities across the country and putting a spotlight on inspiring examples of innovation by local alumni. Gatherings planned in San Francisco, San Jose, Boston, and New York will be a great opportunity to meet fellow alumni from not only the UT but also TU Delft, TU Eindhoven & Wageningen University.
Did you know that San Francisco has one of the largest concentrations of our alumni outside of the Netherlands? An upcoming 4TU.alumni event in the city on Thursday June 20th offers unique access to this network! With over 1.000 4TU graduates living in the Bay area, we are sure to have a great cross selection of participants from different companies, sectors and roles.
During this event at the Dutch Consulate General senior level alumni will talk about their give insights on their innovative jobs. You will also hear updates from your Alma Mater and special activities during the event will maximise your networking opportunities.
All members of the UT community are invited - alumni, exchange students, current/old students, (former) staff members and postdocs. If you feel a connection to our Twente campus please join us!
Our alumni speakers include:
Vincent Duindam (alumnus TUD & UT) Senior Director of Software Engineering/ Intuitive Surgical | Vincent Duindam received his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from TU Delft and a PhD in Robotics from the University of Twente. His research involved modeling and control of bipedal walking robots. Following graduation, he spent two years as a postdoc at UC Berkeley focused on robotic applications in the medical space, specifically on steerable flexible needles. In 2008, Vincent joined Intuitive Surgical as a control engineer to build medical robots in a more applied setting. He worked initially in research projects but then helped bring Intuitive’s Ion robotic bronchoscope from first prototypes through a clinical study to commercial launch. Vincent currently leads the software organization for Intuitive’s Endoluminal business unit. |
Twan Kamp (alumnus TU/e) Software Engineering Director/ Philips Hue | Twan Kamp grew up wanting to become an "inventor". When trying to build a robot from parts of a broken video recorder didn't quite work out, he decided to study electrical engineering and computer science at Eindhoven University of Technology to learn the real thing. After an active student life, and gaining experience at IBM Research and ASML, he became a software architect for Philips Hue where he set out to transform a boring light bulb into an exciting product offering wellbeing, security, and entertainment. |
Magdalena Preciado Lopez (alumna TU Delft) Associate Director, Cellular Models & Assay Technology/Calico Labs | Magdalena Preciado Lopez joined Calico in 2017, and today leads the Cellular Models and Assay Technologies group, whose mission is to develop state-of-the-art protein, cell, and tissue-based assay systems to accelerate early research and drug discovery, and to implement novel technologies to measure and manipulate cellular and protein function in vitro and in vivo. In addition to this, Magdalena leads a couple collaborations with internal and external partners to study vascular and renal aging. Born and raised in Mexico City, Magdalena has pursued her love of science and culture around the world since graduating from high school at the United World College, USA. Her post-secondary education began at Cornell University where she earned a bachelor’s of science in Engineering Physics and was followed by a teaching role in Physics at the Weill Cornell Medical College in Doha, Qatar where she discovered her fascination with Biology. From the Middle East, she landed in Europe where she pursued a Erasmus Mundus master’s program in Nanoscience and Molecular Bioengineering at the TU Delft, in the Netherlands and the TU Dresden, in Germany. Her global pursuit of education culminated with a PhD at the FOM Institute AMOLF in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, followed by a brief postdoctoral stay at TU Delft. After receiving her PhD, Magdalena was awarded the prestigious Rubicon Grant to pursue her postdoctoral studies. She returned to the US as a Visiting Fellow at the National Institutes of Health in the laboratory of Dr. Clare M. Waterman, whose work pioneered our understanding of how the cell cytoskeleton generates forces to propel cells forward. During her tenure, Magdalena learned how to “look” at cells using advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques, and she continued to apply her quantitative and programming skills to challenging biological questions. |
Pauline Teunissen (alumna Wageningen University) Global Applications Director for Grain Processing, Health & Biosciences at IFF | Pauline Teunissen completed her Bachelor and Master degree in Food Technology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and followed that with a Ph.D. in Industrial Microbiology also from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. After her Ph.D. she did an industrial post-doc at Genencor International BV, based in Leiden. Pauline joined Genencor International in Leiden as a scientist in the R&D organization where she was responsible for biochemical assay development for novel enzyme screenings and has built the foundation for the high throughput screening laboratory in our R&D facility in Leiden, The Netherlands. After 6 years in the R&D organization Pauline took the role of EMEA Regional Applications leader for the Grain Processing business and within that role built up the lab capabilities and the team of scientists. Within this role the main focus was on technical customer support and the development of enzyme and yeast solutions for the carbohydrate processing and fuel ethanol industry. In 2011, Pauline relocated to Palo Alto, CA, USA to join the R&D organization of Genencor International, by then acquired by Danisco, to head the research group for grain applications and further expanded her responsibilities in 2016 to R&D project portfolio leader for Grain Processing in DuPont (formerly Danisco) Currently Pauline is Global Applications Director for Grain Processing, Health & Biosciences at IFF and leads the applications teams for Latin America, North America, EMEA and ASPAC. In this role she is responsible for the overall technical product and application development and customer support for the different regions. |
The event is free of charge and open to all alumni of TU Delft, UTwente, TU/e and Wageningen University but prior registration is required.
Event Details:
Date: Thursday, June 20th
Time: 5:30pm to 9:00pm
Venue: Consulate General of the Netherlands - 120 Kearny St, San Francisco, CA 94108
Programme:
5:30pm to 6:00pm, Doors open
6:00pm to 7:15pm, Formal Programme
- Welcome on behalf of the Consulate General
- University Updates
- Alumni Speakers
7:15pm to 9:00pm Networking with fingerfood and drinks.
More information about the programme and speakers will be shared in early June
>> This event is free for alumni from the Dutch Technical Universities but for logistical reasons, prior registration is required via this link <<
If you cannot attend but still wish to be informed about future events in San Francisco, please complete the registration form with your current contact information. Consider also joining our San Jose 4TU.alumni family lunch on Saturday June 22nd!
About 4TU.Alumni
The Dutch Engineers Alumni Network (DEAN) was launched ten years ago by the University of Twente, TU Delft, TU Eindhoven & Wageningen University and today spans active communities in France, Germany, the Nordics, Spain, Switzerland, UK and the USA. Following a recent rebranding this network is now known as 4TU.alumni within the 4TU.Federation.
4TU alumni work across a wide range of sectors, and are affiliated not only with the most prestigious organisations of their fields but in many cases also self-funded start-ups. Some of them may have only recently completed their studies in the Netherlands while others have already lived in one of these countries for a decade or more. This network, therefore, represents a significant source of skills, contacts, and advice.
