Theme: Building a Better World

TEDxErasmusUniversityRotterdam will explore the topic of “Building a Better World”. Through this theme, we will discover how innovation and imagination are driving change and shaping the world of tomorrow. A live webcast will be available at tedxerasmusuniversity.org.

Centrale Bibliotheek Rotterdam
Hoogstraat 110
Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, 3011 PV
Netherlands

Hani Sherry

CEO - TiHive Technologies

Dr Hani Sherry is an entrepreneur, an inventor, a researcher on Terahertz nanoelectronics, an experimental musician, and an amateur astronomer. He has numerous publications and patents, and has won prizes for his inventions on Terahertz cameras. He is the founder and CEO of TiHive, a high-tech startup from France inventing miniature sensors that can detect unseen features in objects and living tissues. Hani Sherry's innovations blend concepts inspired from nature, music, space, and electronics.

Himanshu Kachhwaha

Entrepreneur

Born and brought up in India and Himanshu did his graduation in Mathematics, physics and computer science. After a post graduate diploma in Marketing and sales. In 2008 moved to do my executive masters in financial management from Rotterdam School of management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands. Worked in various capacities in ING Bank and its associated companies for Europe and Japan portfolio of Variable annuities worth €25bn.

Marian Spier

Founder - IAMarian

Marian Spier is a visionary business professional, social entrepreneur, and strategy consultant. She has been a manager and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam for eight years. In 2012 she started consulting and has built a diverse portfolio of clients that range from industries, sectors, and size like the United Nations, World Humanitarian Summit, Unesco, TEDx in Europe, the Caribbean and TED.com. Marian also mentored and trained many young female entrepreneurs from the Netherlands, Poland, The US, Algeria, The Caribbean, and Moldova. She founded the first Female Startup Award in the Netherlands and serves as an advisor and board member of several non-profit organizations, including Humanity in Action. Her projects have appeared in several media outlets including Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Forbes, The Guardian, NRC, Volkskrant, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Het Parool, and the Dutch Financial Times.

Meike Vernooij

Associate professor Radiology and Epidemiology - Erasmus Medical Center

Over the past 10 years, Meike's research has focused on how the brain ages, how neurodegeneration develops and how we can study this process with brain imaging. Meike is interested to learn what factors drive brain changes in aging, and whether brain imaging markers can help predict common neurological disease like stroke and dementia. She has a high level of expertise on a wide range of structural and functional brain imaging markers and have extensively published on these in relation to brain aging, cognition and dementia (over 160 publications, with 90% in top 25% journals in ISI category fields). She had training in epidemiology (MSc) and radiology (MD, PhD, clinical fellowship in neuroradiology), which is the ideal combination to explore brain imaging in a population-based setting. She has strong collaborations with groups in biomedical image processing (for extraction of relevant imaging markers) and epidemiology and biostatistics (for applying advanced mediation analyses).

Pablo van der Lugt

World Bamboo Ambassador

Building Engineer dr. ir. Pablo van der Lugt finished his PhD Research about the environmental impact of industrial bamboo materials at Delft University of Technology in 2008. After his PhD, van der Lugt conducted various ambassador roles in the green building industry and has remained connected as guest lecturer bio-based materials to Delft University of Technology. In the vision of van der Lugt in the essential transition towards a more circular economy there are tremendous opportunities for smart biobased materials made from fast-growing resources such as bamboo, to substitute carbon intensive, high performance materials such as tropical hardwood, steel, PVC and concrete. Van der Lugt has published extensively in both popular magazines as scientific journals and regularly provides (keynote) presentations on this topic to stakeholders and policy makers in the building industry. In October 2017 his book “Booming Bamboo” on contemporary bamboo design & architecture will be launched.

Pamala Wiepking

Assistant Professor - Department of Business Society Management

Dr. Pamala Wiepking is a sociologist who studies philanthropic giving and the nonprofit sector across cultures. She studies why some people in some countries are more generous than other people in other countries. Her mission is to make philanthropy more meaningful for all actors involved, including donors, nonprofit organizations and beneficiaries. In addition to her academic work, she also is board member of the Dutch umbrella organization for fundraising organizations, Nederland Filantropieland (NLFL). Dr. Wiepking’s work has been featured in the popular media quite regularly and she has received nummerous awards for both her academic work and the applicability of it for philanthropy professions. Most recently, she was awarded the best conference paper award at the European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP) Conference 2017 (with Beth Breeze). In 2016 she was awarded the Association of Fundraising Professionals Emerging Scholar Award.

Pauline Jansen

Associate Professor Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychology - Erasmus Medical Centre

Dr. Pauline Jansen is an Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology at the Erasmus University / Medical Centre Rotterdam. Her research is focused on eating behaviours in childhood. Using data from population-based birth cohorts like Generation R (www.generationr.nl), she examines the origins, developmental course and consequences of disordered eating and obesity.

Theo Kemperman

Director - Rotterdam Public Library

Dr. Theo C. M. Kemperman, the Netherlands. Director and Board Chair, Rotterdam Public Library since March 2015. With broad experience as director of various museums in the Netherlands, since 2004 Kemperman has been independent interim manager and project consultant for diverse cultural, educational and scientific institutions, governmental bodies and corporations.