26 Notable alumni of
University of Twente
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The University of Twente is 2021st in the world, 674th in Europe, and 17th in the Netherlands by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 26 notable alumni from the University of Twente sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ank Bijleveld
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anna Theodora Bernardina "Ank" Bijleveld-Schouten is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) who has been serving as acting mayor of Almere since 10 January 2022. She served as Minister of Defence in the third cabinet of Prime Minister Mark Rutte from 26 October 2017 to 17 September 2021.
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Fred Teeven
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Fredrik "Fred" Teeven is a Dutch jurist, bus driver and former politician and prosecutor. A member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), he served as State Secretary at the Ministry of Security and Justice from 2010 until his resignation in 2015 alongside that of Minister Ivo Opstelten.
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Diederik Jekel
- Enrolled in the University of Twente
- Studied solid-state physics
- Occupations
- writertelevision presenterscience journalist
- Biography
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Diederik Jekel is a Dutch science journalist, television presenter and physicist. In 2018, he was elected president of the Dutch Physical Society (NNV).
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Jitse Groen
- Enrolled in the University of Twente
- Studied information technology and business studies
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Jitse Groen is a Dutch businessman and the founder of Takeaway.com, a food delivery platform. He is the chief executive officer of Just Eat Takeaway.com.
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Bas Lansdorp
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- entrepreneurengineer
- Biography
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Bas Lansdorp is a Dutch entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the defunct Mars One.
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Gom van Strien
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gommarus Adrianus "Gom" van Strien is a Dutch politician, he has been a member of the Senate for the Party for Freedom since 7 June 2011. He has served as deputy parliamentary leader since 25 September 2012. He was named formation scout after the 2023 Dutch general election but resigned within days, after he was linked to a fraud case involving his former employer, Utrecht Holdings.
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Arno Brok
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Arnoud Adrianus Maria "Arno" Brok is a Dutch politician serving as the King's Commissioner of Friesland since 2017. A member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), he previously served as Mayor of Sneek from 2003 to 2010 and Mayor of Dordrecht from 2010 until 2017.
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Han Polman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Johannes Marcellus Maria "Han" Polman is a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 (D66) party. He served as King's Commissioner of Zeeland from 1 March 2013 until 16 September 2024. Previously he was Mayor of Bergen op Zoom and Noordwijkerhout.
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Hayke Veldman
- Enrolled in the University of Twente
- Studied in 2004-2005
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Habbo Siebold "Hayke" Veldman is a Dutch politician, he was a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy from 25 June 2014 until 30 March 2021.
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Yasemin Çegerek
- Enrolled in the University of Twente
- Studied in 2008
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yasemin Çegerek is a Dutch politician of Turkish descent. She was an MP for the Labour Party between 18 June 2013 and 23 March 2017. She replaced Désirée Bonis, who left the House of Representatives on 13 June 2013. Çegerek was a member of the commissions of foreign affairs, defense, European affairs, Kingdom relations, foreign trade and development aid. Çegerek temporarily went on maternity leave and her designated replacement was Marith Rebel-Volp. However, as House of Representatives member Myrthe Hilkens left the House on 28 August 2013, Rebel-Volp permanently replaced her instead. Henk Leenders was named as the replacement for Çegerek.
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Cees Links
- Occupations
- entrepreneurengineer
- Biography
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Cees Links is a Dutch entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of GreenPeak Technologies (2004), a fabless semiconductor company for Smart Home and Internet of things (IoT) applications, in 2016 sold to Qorvo Inc., a USA-based semi-conductor/technology company.
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Rob Bats
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jan Hendrik "Rob" Bats is a Dutch politician. He is a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). From 1 May 2012 to 1 April 2013 he was mayor of Haren, Groningen. Previously he worked as a civil servant in Sint Maarten.
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Gerard Endenburg
- Occupations
- entrepreneuruniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Gerard Endenburg is a Dutch entrepreneur, who developed the Sociocratic Circle Organisation Method (SCM), which is a decision-making method for governing and managing organizations and societies based on equivalence and draws inspiration from cybernetics. Endenburg was inspired by the idea of sociocracy of Kees Boeke.
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Mary Goretti Kitutu
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Mary Goretti Kitutu, also Mary Goretti Kitutu Kimono is a Ugandan academic, politician and environmentalist. She was appointed Minister for Karamoja Affairs on 8 June 2021, replacing John Byabagambi. She was the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, in the Ugandan Cabinet, from 14 December 2019 to 8 June 2021. Before that, from 10 June 2016, until 14 December 2019, she served as the State Minister for the Environment in the Cabinet of Uganda. Dr Mary Kitutu concurrently serves as the elected Manafwa District Women's Representative, in the 10th Parliament.
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Merlyna Lim
- Occupations
- social scientist
- Biography
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Merlyna Lim is a scholar studying ICT, particularly on the socio-political shaping of new media in non-Western contexts. She has been appointed a Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society in the School of Journalism and Communication Carleton University. Formerly she was a visiting research scholar at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy and a distinguished scholar of technology and public engagement of the School of Social Transformation Justice and Social Inquiry Program and the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University. She previously held a networked public research associate position at the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She received her PhD, with distinction (cum laude), from University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands, with a dissertation entitled @rchipelago Online: The Internet and Political Activism in Indonesia.
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Dirk-Willem van Gulik
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Dirk-Willem van Gulik is a founder of the Apache Software Foundation and contributor to the Apache Webserver project. Van Gulik is the former CTO of Joost, where he was terminated, and current Chief Technical Architect of British Broadcasting Corporation's Future Media and Technology. He has also worked for the United Nations and European Commission. Van Gulik is based in the Netherlands.
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Albert van den Berg
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Albert van den Berg is a Dutch physicist who works on nanotechnology-miniaturization in physics, chemistry, biology and biotechnology (nanofluidics, nanosensors, Lab on a chip (LOC), Organ on Chip (OoC)).
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Johan Schot
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Johannes Willem "Johan" Schot is a Dutch historian working in the field of science and technology policy. A historian of technology and an expert in sustainability transitions, Johan Schot is Professor of Global Comparative History at the Centre for Global Challenges, Utrecht University. He is the Academic Director of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) and former Director of the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex. He was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in 2009. He is the Principal Investigator of the Deep Transitions Lab.
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Joost-Pieter Katoen
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Joost-Pieter Katoen is a Dutch theoretical computer scientist based in Germany. He is distinguished professor in Computer Science and head of the Software Modeling and Verification Group at RWTH Aachen University. Furthermore, he is part-time associated to the Formal Methods & Tools group at the University of Twente.
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Frans van Vught
- Occupations
- university teachersociologist
- Biography
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Franciscus Adrianus van Vught (born July 23, 1950) is a Dutch social scientist and Professor of Higher Education Policy at the University of Twente, known for his work on the theory of higher education innovation, higher education policy and relationship between government and higher education.
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Aimee Van Wynsberghe
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Canada - Occupations
- businesspersonAI ethicistresearcher
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Aimee van Wynsberghe is the Alexander von Humboldt professor for "Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence" at the University of Bonn, Germany. She is director of the Institute for Science and Ethics and founder of the Bonn Sustainable AI Lab. She is a member of the German Academy for Sciences and Literature, Mainz, Advisory Board member for the DAAD Konrad Zuse Schools of Excellence in AI and has served as a member of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on AI. Prof. van Wynsberghe is author of the book Healthcare Robots: Ethics, Design and Implementation and founding editor for the international peer-reviewed journal AI & Ethics (Springer Nature). She regularly appears in the media to promote awareness of the pressing ethical issues surrounding the design and use of robotics and AI in society. Aimee van Wynsberghe hosts every two years the Sustainable AI Conference in Bonn, Germany.
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Marc Lankhorst
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Marc Martijn Lankhorst is a Dutch computer scientist, researcher and consultant, known for his publications on enterprise architecture, and as key developer of ArchiMate, a modelling language for enterprise architecture.
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Iain Baikie
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Iain Douglas Baikie, MBE, FRSA, FInstP, CPhys is a Scottish physicist, inventor and company Director. He specialises in Material Science. Baikie supervises PhDs at Imperial College London and the University of St Andrews in thin-film electronics. In 2000 he founded a company- KP Technology in Wick. In 1997 Baikie was appointed Professor of Applied Physics with a Chair in Materials Science for his work on surface work function and the scanning Kelvin probe and is visiting professor at the Nanotechnology and Integrated Bio-Engineering Centre at the University of Ulster, Belfast. He is an honorary professor at the University of St Andrews.
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Henry Franken
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Hendrik Marinus Franken (born 1966) is a retired Dutch engineer, enterprise architect and co-founder and former managing director of BiZZdesign, known for his work in the field of systems and control engineering, and business process management.
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Dirk P. Kroese
- Enrolled in the University of Twente
- In 1990 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- mathematicianstatistician
- Biography
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Dirk Pieter Kroese is a Dutch-Australian mathematician and statistician, and Professor at the University of Queensland. He is known for several contributions to applied probability, kernel density estimation, Monte Carlo methods and rare-event simulation. He is, with Reuven Rubinstein, a pioneer of the Cross-Entropy (CE) method.
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Wouter Tebbens
- Occupations
- activist
- Biography
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Wouter Tebbens, is a Dutch activist, researcher and social entrepreneur on Free Knowledge.
