Prof. Dr. Ron Heeren

Work for third parties

Science policy

Vice-chair, Recognition and Rewards, Impact committee, Maastricht University, 2020–present.
Chair, “werkgemeenschapscommissie Living Systems: Methods, Data, Analysis,” NWO-ENW, 2019–present
Member, Dutch Physics Council, 2020–present
Member, “Platform Academische Natuurkunde,” NWO, 2019–present
Quartermaster, “Living Systems: Methods, Data, Analysis,” NWO-ENW-Table Life Sciences, 2019
Member, Program Committee Physics@Veldhoven, 2019
Executive board member of the Netherlands Electron Microscopy Initiative NEMI, 2018-present
Member, German research society (DFG) research evaluation panel on imaging MS research, 2011
Dutch national representative and management committee member, EU-COST action BM1104, Mass Spectrometry Imaging: New Tools for Healthcare Research, 2011–2015
Dutch national representative, STSM manager and management committee member, EU-COST action CA16101, MULTI-modal Imaging of FOREnsic SciEnce Evidence - tools for Forensic Science, 2017–present
Member, Canada Foundation for Innovation expert panel, 2009
Member, Genome Canada Technology Development Competition Evaluation panel, 2008
Member, Program for International Research Experience of the US National Science Foundation, 2008–2012
Leading partner, EU-STREP project on imaging mass spectrometry, 2005–2009
Leading partner, EU-integrated project on nanomedicine, 2005–2009
Program leader, Dutch telescience Laboratory in the virtual laboratory for e-science (VL-e), 2003–2009

Executive board member for programs of the Dutch Society for Mass Spectrometry (NVMS), 1998–2000
President of the Dutch Society for Mass Spectrometry (NVMS), 2000–2005
Chairman of the 2007 ASMS Sanibel meeting on imaging MS, 2006–2007
Treasurer of the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation, 2012–2018
Vice-president of the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation, 2019–present
First President of the Mass Spectrometry Imaging Society, 2017–2018
Executive board member of the Indian Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2014–2016
Founding member of the MS imaging study group of the European Society for Molecular Imaging
Active member in professional societies, NVMS, ACS, ASMS, NNV

Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the MOAC doctoral training centre of the University of Warwick, 2013–2015
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the analytical sciences centre of the University of Warwick, 2008–2015
Member of the Scientific Advisory board of the German “Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung” funded LiSyM program, 2016–present
Member of the EU project ”Metaspace,” 2015–2019