Studying biology at the free university at the end of the 70s, early 80s I never realized that even ecologists could live a happy life in the engineer’s world. Joining the first group of Chemists, and Biologists and through my love for programming and mathematics I soon stepped into the modelling frameworks of Delft Hydraulics, building and distributing Dutch water expertise around the world. Slowly moving towards larger and more complex situations, like the heavily polluted rivers in Shanghai, the closure of Marina Bay in Singapore, the sinking of Jakarta and restoration of Manila Bay. I just moved to Singapore, looking forward to work on the future and connect the climate research of Singapore, the Netherlands and other innovative countries…

About JanJaap Brinkman
JanJaap Brinkman Is a senior water management specialist at Deltares, the institute for applied research in water and subsurface. He studied mathematical ecology at the free university and started his career working on the Oosterschelde kering at Rijkswaterstaat in 1984. Soon after that he moved to het Waterloopkundig Laboratorium (Delft Hydraulics) to join the first group of Chemists, Biologists, Geologists to assist the engineers managing the water of the Netherlands and abroad. Most of his time he worked on projects globally including more than 10 years in Indonesia. In 2007 his flood team discovered the fast sinking of Jakarta and formulated options to address that. For the last 3 years he was based in Manila as the team leader for the Manila Bay Sustainable Development Master Plan. He now is based in Singapore to lead the operations of the Deltares branch office.

Do you know where you will be in 5 or 10 years? Me neither, and as MSc student I never expected to start my own business before my 30th.

You will probably find you’re path while you’re on the road. But how do you choose the right directions if you don’t know your destination? It’s about the choices you make today that determine your tomorrow. I believe you will be able to find your passion by doing what you like, doing what you don’t like, reflecting, concluding, planning, making choices and start over by doing again.

So, what’s the first step after graduation? I graduated with a MSc in Geology from the UU and as geoscientist at Shell. I loved solving geological fieldwork puzzles during my studies, but while writing my thesis I quickly found out that a career as desktop geologist did not suit me. In this lecture, I will reflect on the choices that I took in my short career that resulted in founding a renewable energy company. I will emphasize on the valuable skills and knowledge that geoscientists have for our path towards a new economy and discuss what empowers my and your future.

About Michiel Ottevanger
Sharp look. With vision. And always looking for ‘common ground’, synergy. Michiel finds it exciting that so many diverse themes come together in one complex challenge, the energy transition. The social impact, political character, spatial integration and the large technical component make it probably the biggest challenge of his life.

Michiel graduated with a MSc in Geology and Geophysics from the UU, graduated as geoscientist at Shell and started his career as Commercial advisor for Vermilion Energy. Two years ago, Michiel founded D4, his own renewable project development company. At D4, Michiel is lead developer in geothermal-, biogas, bioLNG-, wind-, hydrogen- and energy storage projects.

Michiel is passionate, inventive, interested and a sailor.

You might have been wondering: what do you need to do to become a professor? I will give you an overview of the choices that I have made, and the important points in my life (some planned, but also many unplanned but lucky coincidences!), that helped me in shaping my career and finally becoming a professor in Deep Earth structure and global seismology. My earth science career most likely started with being a student assistant at one of the largest European Geosciences conference that was held in The Hague in the 3rd of my undergraduate studies. The next big step was doing my master research project at Oxford University. If you want to know the steps that I took after my student days, then come and listen to my lecture!

About Arwen Deuss
Arwen Deuss is a professor in Deep Earth structure and composition at Utrecht University. Her career in Earth Sciences started as a student at Utrecht University in 1993, where she graduated in geophysics in 1998. She then moved to Oxford University to do a PhD in seismology, which was awarded in 2002. She stayed in Oxford for a few more years as ‘Junior Research Fellow’ at University, before becoming a lecturer and then a reader at Cambridge University in 2004. After spending 10 years in Cambridge (and a total of 16 years in the UK!), Arwen finally moved back to the Netherlands in 2014 where she became a professor at Utrecht University in 2017 and she now runs her own research group in global seismology of Earth’s deep interior.

In my presentation I will give a short overview of my educational, professional and amateur sports career and how my curiosity kept me on a path of continuous learning and development. I always had a broad interest and that has got me to the point where I am now. I will take you on a journey and share a few of the lessons I have learned in the past 25 years of my career.

About Patrick Brooijmans
Started his professional career after his study of geology as a mud logger with Halliburton. After three years he took a job in the Army as a terrain analyst (military) and came into contact with the power of geographic information systems (GIS). He fulfilled several functions within the Ministry of Defense in a career spanning almost 20 years. The main focus in this 20 years was geographic information management and GIS. He is currently employed as senior information manager at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) responsible for GIS and innovation and coordinating 11 colleagues. Besides his geology degree he has a master in geographic information science from the VU Amsterdam and is currently doing a MBA at Nyenrode University.

Er worden meerdere lezingen gehouden waarin de studenten enkele hedendaagse onderwerpen binnen het vakgebied ontdekken. Er zijn twee parallele sessies waarbij er vrij gekozen kan worden welke lezing bijgewoond wordt.

Charlotte graduated from Utrecht University with a Master in Earth Sciences in 2010. Since then she has worked in several positions in the geothermal field, starting with consultancy at IF Technology. Seeking a more international focus she worked for Transmark Renewables, a geothermal development company fully dedicated to greenfield exploration and development in Turkey, Chile and The Netherlands.
Now at HVC she is contribution to the energy transition by developing geothermal projects in its shareholder municipalities. HVC is a company dedicated to sustainable waste management and recycling as well as a renewable energy producer with wind, solar and geothermal assets.

My name is Annemijn van Stiphout and I am a first year PhD student in seismology at Utrecht University. In the past few years, I did a BSc Earth Sciences and an Msc Earth, Structure & Dynamics, both in Utrecht. For my thesis, I went to Cambridge for half a year to conduct a seismological study on a subduction zone in Alaska. Like my studies, my favourite holidays also involve mountains, whether it is for hiking, skiing, snowboarding or climbing. The Earth is an intriguing study area, with many interesting processes occurring on and in it, and I think with everything that is happening in the world right now, it is a challenging, but also a very interesting time to study this planet.

Ramon is a Structural Geologist. After obtaining a Ph.D. from the Australian National University, he returned to The Netherlands to work as a Research Scientist for Shell. Since then he has worked for Shell in many technical and managerial positions in Oil & Gas Exploration all around the world. For example, he was Shell’s Exploration Manager for Unconventional Exploration in Latin America. From 2013-2017, he was Exploration Manager for The Netherlands (NAM), Germany and the Southern North Sea. Lately, he has become interested in the role Integrated Energy Companies can play in the Energy Transition. As a subsurface specialist, he is particularly interested in Geothermal Energy and CCS.

Een workshop biedt studenten de ideale mogelijkheid om een interactieve manier kennis te maken met uw bedrijf. Parallel aan de bedrijvenmarkt zullen twee rondes workshops gehouden worden. Per ronde zullen de workshops anderhalf uur in beslag nemen voor maximaal 30 studenten. De inhoud en het onderwerp van een workshop is naar eigen inzicht in te vullen. De ervaring leert dat interactieve workshops het best worden ontvangen; bijvoorbeeld het uitwerken van een case-study met een klassikale conclusie.

De bedrijvenmarkt is een belangrijk onderdeel van het Earth Science Career Event en is erg geliefd bij studenten. Het bemachtigen van een stand geeft u de mogelijkheid om in contact te komen met deze studenten en nieuwe talenten te ontdekken!

Het is mogelijk om stageprojecten, eventueel in combinatie met een masterthesis, en vacatures aan te bieden op onze site. Deze zullen op onze speciale vacature pagina komen te staan.

In navolging van de afgelopen edities bieden wij dit jaar weer de zogenoemde CV-interviews aan in een nieuw jasje: Meet & Connect. Als u gebruik maakt van deze optie, krijgt u 90 minuten een lokaal tot uw beschikking om in gesprek te gaan met getalenteerde studenten. Vooraf zult u CV’s toegestuurd krijgen van geïnteresseerde studenten en hieruit uw selectie maken. Met elke geselecteerde student kunt u circa 20 minuten in gesprek gaan. Dit biedt de geschikte gelegenheid om nieuwe talenten te ontdekken en om eventueel beschikbare stageplek of vacatures te vervullen! Wilt u meer dan 4 à 5 studenten interviewen? Er bestaat een mogelijkheid de optie dubbel te boeken waardoor u gedurende 180 minuten een lokaal tot uw beschikking heeft.