Conference Committee

Scientific Board

Conference chair: prof.dr.ir. Masi Mohammadi (TU/e, HAN)
Prof.dr. Niels Chavannes (NeLL)
Camilla Evensson (RISE)
Prof.dr. Tineke Abma (Leyden Academy, LUMC)
Prof.dr. Marta Fernández (RMIT Europe)
Prof.dr.ir. Gloria Gutma (Simon Fraser University)
Prof.dr. Nico van Meeteren (Health~Holland)

Review Committee

Dr.ir. Olivia Guerra-Santin | TU/e
Dr. Nienke Moor | HAN
Dr. Ignacio Pedrosa | CTIC Technology Centre
Dr. Sander van de Hoef | HU, NeLL
Dr.ir. Pauline van den Berg | Fontys
Dr. Pai Liu | TU/e
Dr. ir.-arch. Sara Willems | KU Leuven
Dr.ir. Simone de Bruin | Hogeschool Windesheim
Prof.dr. Daantje Derks | EUR
Dr. Joanna Syrda | University of Bath
Dr. Nurhan Abujidi | HS Zuyd
Dr. Rizal Sebastian | HHS
Dr. Louis Neven | HAN

Organizing Committee

Prof.dr.ir. Masi Mohammadi (TU/e, HAN)
Ir. Leonie van Buuren, EngD (TU/e)
Moniek van Loon, MSc (HAN)
Ing. Toine van Lieshout (HAN)

Online Conference day May 16th

Dr. Nurhan Abujidi (Hogeschool Zuyd)
Dr. Rizal Sebastian (The Hague University of Applied Sciences)
Assisted by: ir. Peyman Najafi
(TU/e) & dr. Marijn van de Weijer (Hogeschool Zuyd)

Scientific Board

Prof.dr.ir. Masi Mohammadi (TU/e, HAN)

Dr. Masi Mohammadi, is a smart living scientist. She heads two chairs—Smart Architectural Technologies at Eindhoven University of Technology and Architecture in Health at HAN University—in the Netherlands. Her research program, Empathic Environments, explores the mechanisms of how socio-technological developments influence our living environment and how these are shaped by architecture. Additionally, she serves as a member and chair on several editorial boards and research networks. She is also the Scientific Director of the DEEL Academy, a national joint venture among several universities, housing, and care organizations, focusing on integrated strategies for healthy and inclusive living environments.

Prof.dr. Niels Chavannes (NeLL)

Prof. Dr. Niels H. Chavannes MD, PhD, is a distinguished figure in primary care and eHealth. Graduating from Maastricht University in 1998, he earned his PhD in 2005 with a thesis on COPD management. Noteworthy achievements include his role in setting up innovative healthcare centers and receiving awards for integrated COPD management. He has held positions in China and the Netherlands, focusing on clinical research and teaching. Chavannes has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and contributed to guideline development in respiratory and primary care. He founded the National eHealth Living Lab and has secured substantial funding for research. He holds editorial positions in prominent medical journals and has served in leadership roles in international healthcare organizations. Currently, he works at Streetdoctor Group in Rotterdam, providing healthcare to the homeless. Chavannes’s contributions span diverse areas, including eHealth, medication adherence, and smoking cessation.

Camilla Evensson (RISE)

Camilla is the manager of RISE´s focus area Future Health and Care that aims to mobilize diverse stakeholders in society to innovate health and care with technology, collaboration and solutions from a systems´ perspective.

She has experience in working with cross-disciplinary partnerships with stakeholders like trade and industry, public sector, civil society and end users. She is leading initiatives with a focus on complex societal challenges e.g. the demografic development, technology test and implementation. Camilla is the lead manager of the Interreg North Sea region project ACE, she is also part of the executive board in ECTP Built4Life.

Photo by Michel ter Wolbeek

Prof.dr. Tineke Abma (Leyden Academy, LUMC)

Since 1 December 2019, Professor Tineke A. Abma is Executive Director of Leyden Academy of Vitality and Ageing. For over twenty-five years, she has been researching themes closely related to ageing, such as patient and citizen participation, long-term care, ethics and diversity. Taking the perspective of older individuals as a starting point and respecting and valuing the differences between people, is her personal motivation and also a key characteristic in the research and activities of the Leyden Academy. In July 2021, Tineke was appointed Endowed Professor of Participation of Older People at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). She leads research activities aimed at strengthening the position of older people and patients in health care, policy, and scientific research, with special attention for the inclusion of vulnerable persons in society.

Prof.dr. Marta Fernández (RMIT Europe)

Prof Fernandez was appointed to this role in late 2015. Her career has spanned senior management roles in the UK, including Global Research Leader at international consultancy Arup. She has a strong interest in urban wellbeing, particularly the impact of design and technology for healthy ageing and has been a member of European expert panels for nature-based solutions in cities, energy efficient buildings and healthy buildings. In 2021, Prof Fernandez was appointed an RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation Professor. She has held honorary appointments at University College London and Imperial College Business School and is member of the Executive Board and Steering Committee of the European Construction Technology Platform, the Triple Helix Association and is a Non-executive Director of Thomas Telford Ltd in the UK. Prof Fernandez has a doctorate degree in carbon sequestration from University College London and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and the Institution of Engineering and Technology in the UK.

Prof.dr. Nico van Meeteren (Health~Holland)

Van Meeteren earned his PhD as a Neuroscientist from the Rudolf Magnus Institute for Neurosciences of the Utrecht University in 1994. Then, after 18 years of innovation and scientific validation of prevention, care and cure concepts and educational MSc-models out of the University Medical Centre Utrecht, in 2008 he became Director of Innovation “Healthy for Live” at TNO, with board memberships of amongst others the National Platform Sports and Physical Activity, Body@Work, the Center for Care Technology Research, etcetera. Van Meeteren was also Professor at Maastricht University. At present, from 2015 on, he fulfills his main role as Executive Director and Secretary General of the Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (LSH), known under the name Health~Holland. Furthermore, Van Meeteren is Professor of Perioperative Health at Erasmus Medical Center. From out of both these appointments he holds several governance positions, like in that of the national societal theme “Health and Care” of the Mission driven policy of the Ditch Cabinet, Health Research Infrastructure, Regenerative Medicine Cross Borders, Medical Delta, Fit for surgery, etcetera.

Prof.dr.ir. Gloria Gutma (Simon Fraser University)

To be announced