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The new normal still takes some getting used to in the concert hall. This applies to musicians who are not in their familiar environment as well as for audiences that are surrounded by empty seats. But it is good that music can be played in the concert hall. How heartwarming and special were the balcony concerts, recitals from living rooms and free streaming concert recordings; they highlighted that classical music is only really alive when we can be there.

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Registration Intercultural training by the MYA on 1 December

Prof. Dr. Ron Heeren

2020 Hans Fisher fellowship Technical University of Munich
2020 Thomson medal of the IMSF for distinguished contribution to international MS
2019 NWO-Physics Valorisation prize
2019 Brightlands Convention Award
2014 Robert Feulgen lecturer, Society for Histochemistry
2013 Winner, 10th Venture Challenge, Netherlands Genomics Initiative
2012 Award, Exploratory Measurement Science Group (EMSG), University of Edinburgh
2010 Distinguished Wiley Visiting Scientist award
2008 RCM Beynon Prize, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
2002 Bert L. Schram Award, Dutch Society for Mass Spectrometry (NVMS)

Prof. Dr. Ron Heeren

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

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

Advisory roles

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

Prof. Heeren has supervised more than 60 PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, many of whom have received prestigious awards (NWO-Vidi and ERC grants for example) and are now leading their own labs or hold key positions in industry. Currently, he supervises masters and PhD students at UM, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam.

His tutorial lecture on Imaging MS at the 2014 annual ASMS conference is still referenced by many in and outside of the field.

Prof. Dr. Ron Heeren

Prof. Heeren is part of the organising committee of the annual Mass Spectrometry in Biomedicine summer school in Dubrovnik (now in its twelfth year), where he tutors and inspires students to network and prepare for a career in MS. As the founding director of M4I (2014), he built the Imaging Mass Spectrometry division to perform cutting-edge research and train the next generation of scientists. He has designed and established a molecular imaging track in the Biomedical Sciences Master programme and is coordinating the establishment of a new Molecular Imaging and Engineering Master programme at UM. Together with his team, he has organised numerous hands-on imaging MS workshops.

Prof. Heeren’s educational contribution extends beyond the academic research community, and he engages the general public frequently: he hosts lab open house events to share his work, is featured in numerous YouTube and social media articles.

How do you know within 30 minutes whether a tumor is completely gone?

Prof. Dr. Ron Heeren

Prof. Heeren talks about research at UM and explaining the benefits of collaboration and cross-fertilisation: “Disciplines disappear where researchers come together”.

Professor Heeren speaks at the opening of the LINK Institutes MERLN and M4I in early September 2017.

Prof. Dr. Ron Heeren

Professor Ron Heeren introduces himself at UM

Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp

What is the effect of diverse nationalities in the classroom on students’ performance? Is there an optimal balance between number and types of nationalities in a tutorial group and student performance? How do students’ nationality and other diversity characteristics shape classroom interactions and learning outcomes?

The impact of nationalities

These are the questions that Patrick Bijsmans (FASoS) and Carla Haelermans (SBE) are looking into in their research project on the international classroom and global citizenship education at Maastricht University, funded by Diversity & Inclusivity.

Patrick and Carla will look at first-year classrooms in Bachelor's programmes at FASoS, FoL, FSE, SBE and FPN, and will combine quantitative data analysis with qualitative interviews and focus groups. The project builds on earlier quantitative research that Patrick has been conducting with Arjan Schakel (University of Bergen) and two BA European Studies alumni.

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