Koen Vermeer works for Holland High Tech, the executive office of the Topsector High Tech Systems and Materials. He is the program manager of the Knowledge and Innovation Agenda Key Enabling Technologies (KIA ST), which aims to advance innovation on the ten key technologies identified in the National Technology Strategy. In addition, he is the program manager of the KIA Safety and is working on stimulating innovation for the circular transition within the high-tech sector.
Natallia E. Uzunbajakava is working at the TNO Holst Centre managing wearable medical devices program, honorary chairman of the Home Use Device working group, associated editor in Frontiers: Human Skin Photobiology. She holds a Ph.D. in physics and an engineering degree (the University of Twente). Dr.ir. Uzunbajakava has 46 publications, incl. 3 Book Chapters, holds 27 US granted patents and applications, lectures nationally and internationally. Her H-Index is 19 (Scopus @June 2024).
Srirang Manohar (1969) began his scientific career as a PhD student at the Institute of Science in Bangalore, in his native India. In 2001 he came to the University of Twente to do further research on photoacoustic imaging. He received a VENI grant for this. Manohar has been Professor of the Multi-Modality Medical Imaging since 2019. He is the coordinator of the international PAMMOTH project, which focuses on the detection of breast cancer by photoacoustic imaging. In addition, he leads the international consortium Imaging Needles, which develops minimally-invasive instruments for needle imaging. Manohar is also a member of the editorial staff of magazine Photoacoustics.
Danny Ruijters is a part-time professor in the area of data-driven value-based healthcare in image-guided therapy. This comprises the development of intelligent and context-aware systems that optimize the data gathering and application in minimally invasive treatment. Particularly, the translation of large population datasets to the individual patient and vice-versa, and the direct application during image-guided therapy is part of his research focus. He is also a principal scientist at Philips, with a track record of creating prototypes for interventional patient treatment, evaluating those prototypes in a live clinical setting, and taking into account the technical, clinical and regulatory aspects.
Bettina Schwab is an Associate Professor at the University of Twente. She studied physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and received her PhD from the University of Twente. After fellowships at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, the University of Pittsburgh, and the Berlin Institute for Advanced Studies, she returned to the University of Twente for the tenure-track. Schwab’s work is supported by competitive third-party funding such as an ERC Starting Grant.
