Other Professional Activities

Member: Some current and recent committees

  • From 2019: Member of the Evaluation Panel for the ERC Consolidator Grant 2019, panel ``The Human Mind and Its Complexity: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, philosophy of mind".

  • From 2018: Member of the Evaluation Panel for the “Nationale Wetenschapsagenda — Onderzoek op Routes door Consortia” (Dutch National Research Agenda —Research along Routes by Consortia, NWA-ORC).

  • From 2018: Member CWI Instituutsadviesraad, for the National Research Center for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam.

  • 2018: Member of three search committees (BAC) for CogniGron and the Bernoulli Institute of Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, for the positions in Computer Networks; Theory of Computing; and Computational Neuroscience.

  • From 2018: Member of the Curriculum Committee of the Bachelor and Master's programs in Artificial Intelligence and the Master's program in Human-Computer Interaction, University of Groningen.

  • 2009-2018: Member of the Board of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, consisting of the three research group leaders (full professors) and the Director of Education.

  • 2017: Member of the search committee for the Rosalind Franklin Fellowships of the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

  • From 2017: Member of the IPN special interest group AI.

  • From 2016: Representative for Groningen (together with Prof. dr. Jos Roerdink) in the “Informatica Platform Nederland” (IPN).

  • 2016: Member of the jury of the “Nederlandse Prijs voor ICT-Onderzoek 2017”.

  • 2016: Member of the NWO Vici selection committee “Maatschappij- en Geesteswetenschappen”.

  • 2016: Member of the jury “Ngi-NGN Informatie Scriptieprijs voor Informatica en Informatiekunde 2016”.

  • 2013-2016: Member of the university-wide Steering Committee on E-Learning, University of Groningen.

  • 2015: Member of the NWO Exact Sciences TOP1 selection committee.

  • 2015-2017: Member of the Examination Committee of the Bachelor and Master’s programs in Artificial Intelligence and the Master’s program in Human-Computer Interaction, University of Groningen.

  • 2014: Assessment committee 2nd PhD call of the NWO Gravitation Programme Language in Interaction.

  • 2014: Programme Committee of the Bachelor and Master’s programs in Artificial Intelligence and the Master’s program in Human-Computer Interaction, University of Groningen.

  • 2014: Initiator, with Dr. Sujata Ghosh, Prof. dr. Ponnusamy and Prof. dr. Ernst Wit, of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Indian Statistical Institute and the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Groningen.

  • 2013-2017: Member of the Board of the Indo-European Research Training Network in Europe.

  • 2012-2017: Member of five selection committees for tenure track positions in Computing Science at the Johann Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen.

  • From 2001: Member of several selection committees for assistant professor and tenure track positions at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence ALICE, University of Groningen.

  • 2012-2017: Member of the Governing Board of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica CWI (National Research Center for Mathematics and Computer Science) in Amsterdam.

  • From 2012: BAC 2, the Advisory Board for the step from adjunct professor to full professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

  • 2010-2016: Member of the Selection committee E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize.

  • 2006-2010: Selection committee Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science. 

    - Laureate 2006: John R. Anderson
    - Laureate 2008: Stanislas Dehaene
    - Laureate 2010: Michael Tomasello 

  • From 2008-2012: NWO Program Committee Brain and Cognition.

  • From 2006: NIAS-Lorentz Advisory Board.

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