Sander Loos studied Physical Geography at Utrecht University and graduated in 2003. He explored the marshes of Siberia, focusing on hydrology and hydro-ecology for his final thesis, and sampled groundwater wells of local farmers in Morocco for assessing impacts of climatic changes on water availability. During these field campaigns he developed specific interest in the combination of hydrology/water management and IT/software development.

Nowadays Sander is senior consultant hydroinformatics at HydroLogic and works for over 18 years in the fields of hydrology and IT. In these years he was project manager, consultant, product owner (agile scrum), system architect, software developer, GIS specialist and hydrological modeler. Sander played a significant role in the long-term development of HydroNET (www.hydronet.com), an online decision support system for water management. Often he was the link between end-users and the development- and support teams of HydroNET. Besides his work for HydroNET, Sander also works as senior consultant for waterboards implementing decision support systems for operational water management and real-time control (RTC) of water systems based on Delft-FEWS software. Sanders role is highly appreciated by waterboards, because he has the required ‘soft-skills’ to facilitate projects, processes, workshops etc. while still operating within scope, target, budget and planning.

Because of his extensive experience in watermanagement and IT, Sander currently plays an important role in ‘human capital development’ at HydroLogic by training and coaching junior and medior consultants.

William Ouellette is an environmental engineer that specialized early on in geo-ICT, and became particularly passionate about the possibilities of remote sensing for environmental monitoring.

He has explored a variety of applications of remote sensing and earth observation data in the mapmaking business (TomTom), where he was using very-high resolution satellite imagery to automatically update map elements such as roads and buildings, as well as visually enhance the look-and-feel of cartographic data. Eager to put his skills and knowledge of Earth Observation data structures to use in a more high-impact environment, he decided to go consult for several (inter)national organization (FAO, KIT, World Bank). After these nonetheless enriching experiences, William realized the Aid & Development status quo was stuck in an operational procedure which required out-of-the-box solutions. He decided to start his own business with colleagues from the Aid & Development Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) where they would tackle the challenge of global climate objectives together with those of local socio-economic development in the Global South, and particularly in Africa, with the help of climate finance and voluntary carbon markets. Come and see his talk if you want to learn more about how (voluntary) carbon markets can fit into the Aid & Development narrative, and how this can only be done with more rigorous design, monitoring and evaluation of projects aiming to restore landscapes and ecosystems.

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.

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.