43rd IUPAC Council Meeting
Nominee for Bureau
Maria C.E. (Rietje) van Dam-Mieras (The Netherlands)
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Maria van Dam-Mieras
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Since 1993, Professor Maria C.E. van Dam-Mieras has been chair of
Natural Sciences at the Open University of The Netherlands in Heerlen.
In this position and other leadership roles, her activities have involved
higher education in sustainability and globalization, chemistry curriculum
in secondary education, biotechnology, environmental science, and knowledge
transfer.
Education and Career
Prof. van Dam-Mieras studied biochemistry and inorganic chemistry at
the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands and received her Ph.D.
from the same university in 1976. She started her academic career at
the Limburg University in Maastricht, where her research was focused
on blood coagulation and vascular pathology.
In 1983 she joined the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the newly founded
Open University of The Netherlands in Heerlen, where she developed course
materials in biotechnology, pollution prevention, and sustainable development.
Also she was involved in several research programs of the European Union
(COMETT, TEMPUS, PHARE, and SOCRATES). In 1992 she was appointed to
the chair of Natural Sciences at the Open University.
In 1996, van Dam-Mieras became rector of the Open University. In 1997,
she was appointed chair of the Copernicus Task Group of the European
Association of University Rectors. The work of the Task Group led to
the formation of Copernicus-campus, a network of European
Universities dealing with the role of higher education in sustainability
and globalization. From 1995-2001 she was a member of the Scientific
Advisory Board of the Deutsches Institut für Fernstudien
Forschung at the University of Tübingen in Germany. In 2000,
she became a member of the Supervisory Board of the Institute of Environmental
Science of the University of Antwerp in Belgium, and since 2003, she
has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Lüneburg University
in Germany.
IUPAC Involvement
Prof. van Dam-Mieras is a member of the joint ad-hoc Committee for IUPAC
of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV) and the Royal Netherlands
Academy of Sciences. Since 2003, she has been a board member of the
KNCV and was previously president elect, president, and immediate past
president.
Related Professional Activities
From 1998 until 2003 van Dam-Mieras was a member of the national Scientific
Advisory Council for Government Policy in The Netherlands. Since
1997 she has been a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Akzo
Nobel Nederland concern. In 2000 she joined the Board of Trustees
of the Dutch organization TNO (Applied Scientific Research) and since
2001 has held a position on the societal advisory board of the Division
on Chemical Sciences of the organization NWO (Netherlands Scientific
Research). In 1995 she was a member of the working group that developed
the outline for the new natural sciences program in Dutch Secondary
Education, and since 2002, has been a member of the working group developing
the outline for a new chemistry curriculum in secondary education. Since
2003, she has been chairperson of the Dutch-Flemish Association of Science
Centres.
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