Prof Dr Ron Heeren (R.M.A.)
Nevenwerkzaamheden
- Vice president at International MS Foundation
- Eigenaar at Jaromasu B.V.
- Member Science Advisory Board at SCiLS
- Mede-oprichter at The Organoid Factory (T.O.F.)
- Mede-oprichter en aandeelhouder via Jaromasu B.V. at The Dutch Screening Group
- Chair "Werkgemeenschaps commissie" Advanced Methods Life sciences at NWO-ENW
- Consultancy at Merck/MSD
Overige activiteiten
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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
Science community-building
- 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
Editorial activities
- Co-chair of the editorial board of Analysis and Sensing, a journal of the European Chemical Society, (2020–present)
- Member of the editorial board of Mass Spectrometry Reviews, 2017–present
- Member of the editorial board of Clinical Mass Spectrometry, 2015–present
- Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Mass Spectrometry (IJMS), 2001–present
- Member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2013–2018
- Member of the Advisory Board of American Chemical Society’s journal Analytical Chemistry, 2016–2019
- Member of numerous national and international PhD committees, 2001–present
- Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Biomacromolecular Mass Spectrometry, 2003–2006
- Guest editor of the IJMS 2007 special issue on imaging MS
- Guest editor of the IJMS 2009 special issue on MS of Art
- Editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry reference book series on new developments in mass spectrometry, 2011–2017
Advisory roles
- Member of the international advisory board of the International Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2000–2005
- Member of the advisory board of the Dutch Physical Society (NNV), 2000–2005
- Scientific advisory board member of the MSACL (Mass Spectrometry Applications in the Clinical Laboratory)
- 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
- Scientific Advisor for SCiLS-Bruker, 2017–2020
- Scientific Advisor for Denator, 2015–2016
- Scientific Advisor for Protea Biosciences Inc., 2013–2015
- Scientific Advisor for Imabiotech SA, 2010–2014
- Scientific Advisor for NextGen systems, 2018–present
- Scientific Advisor of the Dutch Screening group, 2018-present
- Chair of NSF-panel of hyperspectral imaging in forensic science, 2012

R.M.A. Heeren
Universiteitshoogleraar Molecular Imaging
Limburg Chair
Directeur M4I
Divisiehoofd Imaging Mass Spectrometry
Lid Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen
Imaging Mass Spectrometry (IMS), M4I, Fac. Health, Medicine and Life Sciences