Invitation reception Henk Zijm

As of October 2014 Prof. Dr. Henk Zijm has passed on his function of scientific director of Dinalog to Prof. dr. Albert Veenstra.

In honor of his retirement Dinalog organizes a farewell reception on January 28 from 17.15-19.00 hrs.  You are kindly invited to this reception. If you want to attend please send an email to Ruby Limburg limburg@dinalog.nl.

Henk Zijm has combined his job as scientific director at Dinalog with his position as professor at the University of Twente. He had previously indicated that the, by last summer, four years of combining a full-time position as professor with that of scientific director at Dinalog was becoming too heavy a burden for him. Now that the TKI policy and the role of Dinalog in this are starting to take shape, he considered it an appropriate moment to pass on the baton. He will continue in the capacity of an adviser for Dinalog. He is currently still the vice chairman for the European Technology Platform for Logistics ALICE (Alliance for Logistics Innovation and Cooperation in Europe) and chairman of the Program Committee for TKI Logistics, but he will also terminate these positions in the long term, so that he can concentrate completely on his position as professor at the University of Twente. He will continue to fulfil a number of existing additional posts.

During the last four years, Henk Zijm has focused on the expansion of the Dinalog Research and Development program, in which more than 30 major projects are currently running (without exception as public private consortia). He was responsible for the expansion and support of a number of Human Capital Development programs. He has championed the image of Dutch knowledge and industrial sectors throughout Europe. Dinalog participates in, or is the project leader for, a significant number of European projects and is joint initiator of the European Technology Platform ALICE, in which European knowledge institutes and companies work together in shaping the European logistics research agenda within Horizon 2020. He has promoted the strengthening of relationships with comparable foreign institutes, like Zarogoza Logistics Center (Spain), the Fraunhofer Institut für Materialfluβ und Logistik (Germany), the Nov@Log cluster (France) and the Logistics Park Nässjö (Sweden). Recently, upon his initiative, a cooperative agreement was signed between Dinalog and the Effizienzcluster Logistik/Ruhr in Dortmund, in the presence of King Willem Alexander and Queen Maxima.