Alumni meeting
4TU.Alumni Events - Berlin, Germany [MUNICH POSTPONED]
Join us in marking 10 years of ‘4TU’ alumni activities in the Germany with special activities taking place 13 and 14 November, celebrating our communities across the country. As an alumnus/alumna of Wageningen University & Research (WUR), you are hereby invited!
Alumni events in Munich and Berlin: you are invited!
Join us in marking 10 years of ‘4TU’ alumni activities in Germany with special activities celebrating our communities across the country. The gatherings planned in Berlin will be a great opportunity to meet fellow alumni from not only from your alma mater Wageningen University & Research (WUR), but also TU Delft, TU Eindhoven and UTwente.
Find more information about the events below.
Munich [POSTPONED]
Berlin, 14 November 2024
This gathering, hosted at the Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin, will be an opportunity to explore the global impact of local alumni through short talks related to innovative architecture and wildlife conservation. See below for more details about our speakers WUR alumna Viktoriia Radchuk (Senior Scientist, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife) and TUD alumnus Sander Troost (Associate Partner, GMP Architects).
Location: Netherlands Embassy Berlin (Klosterstraße 50, 10179 Berlin)
Date and time: Thursday November 14, 5:30PM until 9:00PM.
Programme:
17:30 to 18:00: Doors open
18:00 to 19:15: Formal Programme
- Welcome by the Dutch Embassy
- University updates
- Alumni talks by Viktoriia Radchuk and Sander Troost
19:15 to 21:00: Networking with fingerfood and drinks
21:00: End of programme
Berlin speakers
Viktoriia Radchuk
Viktoriia Radchuk is a quantitative ecologist interested in how wildlife responds to changing environments. To assess biological responses to global change she uses advanced statistical tools and simulation models, with the ultimate goal of providing conservation advice for mitigating possible negative impacts. She is a senior scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW, Berlin).
After obtaining her MSc in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University in 2008 (MATRA Scholarship for Eastern-European countries) she was granted a PhD fellowhip from FRIA at Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). Her PhD Thesis focused on population viability of two butterfly species under climate change. In her subsequent post-doc fellowships at Hedmark University College (Norway) and iDiv (German Centre for Integrative biodiversity Research, Leipzig) she broadened the focus from single species to multi-species, community perspectives.
Sander Troost
Sander Troost is an architect and associate partner working in the Berlin office of gmp - von Gerkan, Marg und Partner Architects. Born in Zeeland, the Netherlands, he entered the Faculty of Architecture of the TUDelft in 1998. With inspiring exchanges at the EPFL in Lausanne and the USP in São Paulo, he graduated cum laude in Delft in 2005.
After spending a brief period in Amsterdam, he moved back to Brazil where he developed a passion for sports architecture. He lived for 2 years in Manaus for the construction of the FIFA 2014 WorldCup stadium and then moved to Rio de Janeiro to lead the design team for the tennis complex and swimming stadium for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
After the Olympics, Sander moved with his family to Germany where he continues to work on sports projects and other large-scale buildings worldwide. His current projects include the redesign and renovation of Real Madrid’s stadium Santiago Bernabeu, a new roof for the 1976 Olympic stadium in Montreal and a stadium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for the 2034 WorldCup. His role of leading large multinational design teams of architects, engineers and specialists allows him to combine work with a passion for traveling and a personal interest in languages and cultures.