Meet the founder Artem Shulga Artem Shulga is the founder and CEO of QDI Systems, which develops and manufactures quantum dot image sensors in-house in Groningen. The company builds scalable, affordable detectors for short-wave infrared (SWIR), extended SWIR (eSWIR) and X-ray applications. His route there ran through two universities. Shulga took his bachelor’s degree in […]
Meet the founder Most academic knowledge stays inside the university. Hans van Koningsbrugge, professor at the University of Groningen, spent his career deciding it should not. He is the driving force behind the Groninger Instituut voor Midden- en Oost-Europese Studies (GIMOES), the institute that brings research on Central and Eastern Europe to students, businesses, government
Meet the founders Balto started with a problem both founders, Guido de Rooij and Koert van Ittersum, had seen up close. People around them struggled to take medication as prescribed: a dose forgotten, side effects appearing days after treatment had started, a change in medication leading to someone unknowingly taking the wrong dose. Surely, they
Meet the founder Some researchers publish their discovery and move on to the next paper. Amar Kamat wanted his work to reach actual patients. About five years ago he founded Sencilia, a medtech and deep-tech company building non-invasive sensors that make infusion therapy safer. The Rely-V® sensors clamp onto an infusion tube and measure how
Meet the founder Asked what would have been different for SG Papertronics without RUG Ventures, CEO Maciej Grajewski doesn’t soften his answer: it wouldn’t have happened. Maciej came to Groningen for a PhD in the University’s Pharmaceutical Analysis group, recruited off the back of an internship abroad. What drew him to Science in the first
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Meet the founder prof. dr. Hedderik van Rijn Hedderik van Rijn, professor of Cognitive Science and Neuroscience at the University of Groningen, arrived in Groningen by way of Amsterdam, Nijmegen and Pittsburgh. What travelled with him at every step was an interest in how human memory works, and a growing conviction that a model of
