Margot Weijnen

As of March 1, 2020, Margot Weijnen is a member of the Executive Board and chair of the NWO Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences. From 2005 to 2013 she was a member and vice-chairman of the board of AES predecessor Technology Foundation STW.

Margot Weijnen (1957) is professor of process and energy networks at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology. She studied chemical engineering at Delft University of Technology and obtained her PhD there for research into the prevention of 'scaling'. After obtaining her doctorate, she worked for Shell until she became scientific director of Interduct in 1990, the then interfaculty institute for clean technology at TU Delft. In 1995 she was appointed professor at TU Delft. Since 2001 she has also been scientific director of the Next Generation Infrastructures foundation, a knowledge consortium in which Rijkswaterstaat, the Port of Rotterdam Authority, Alliander, Schiphol, ProRail and Vitens have joined forces.

In addition to her work for TU Delft, Margot Weijnen held a large number of administrative and advisory positions in, among others, the Technology Foundation STW, the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, the KNMI and the Stichting Toekomstbeeld der Techniek STT. She was a member of the Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy AWT and the General Energy Council AER for eight years and a member of the first Innovation Platform and in 2009 became a member of the Supervisory Board of AkzoNobel Netherlands. As an STW director, she herself was one of the founders of instruments such as Perspective and the Partnerships, with which the domain has built up a good position for AES. Read more in the interview that was published when she started as AES chair.