Participational bodies Faculty of Science

Staff and students at the faculty are represented through various committees and participational bodies. The participational bodies of the faculty consist of the Representative Council and the Faculty Student Council. Also, there is participation per study programme in the form of programme committees and institute assessors.

Faculty Joint Assembly

In the Faculty Joint Assembly (FJA), staff and students meet with the Faculty Board to discuss the general and strategic policy of the faculty. The interest of faculty staff is represented by the Representative Council and students interest is represented by the the Faculty Student Council (FSC). Meetings take place regularly and are, in principle, open to the public. 

View meeting agenda and reports (in Dutch)

Representative Council

The Representative Council (RC) of the Faculty of Science is one of the councils of the Works Council (WC) of the Radboud University. The RC consists of members coming from various sectors and departments at the faculty. The RC represents all employees during the Faculty Joint Assembly, the FJA. 

Onderdeelcommissie FNWI 2023

Members

In italic you can see which subcommittee each member is part of.

Faculty Student Council

The Faculty Student Council (FSC) represents all students of the faculty in the FJA. Through collaboration with student participational bodies and direct contact with students, the FSR identifies important issues within the faculty and works on suitable solutions. The aim is to improve the study environment for all students. Follow the FSC on Instagram.

FSC 2024-2025

Thijs Florian van Mil (Chair)
Noël René Schneider (Vice Chair)
Andreea Diana Măiceanu (Secretary)
Luuk Scholten (Commissioner of Education)
Ata Binatli (Commissioner of Promotion)
Leif Bleijs (Treasurer)

FSR FNWI 2024-2025

Student assessor

The student assessor is a member of the faculty board and represent the student’s perspective. The student assessor is also in contact with all other bodies in the faculty relating to students and keep them involved and up-to-date.

Student assessor Mark de Jong

Student assessor 2024-2025

Mark de Jong

Education Policy Committee

The Education Policy Committee (EPC) is formed by two EPC students, a secretary, the directors of the educational institutes, the Student Assessor, the Vice-Dean of Education, the Head of the Education Center, and the policy makers of the faculty. Their main goal is to discuss questions regarding existing education policy and to give advice regarding new policies.

Student members EPC 2024-2025

Karolis Gritenas
Tristan van der Schaaf

Studentleden OBC FNWI 2024-2025

Programme Committees

Each programme cluster within the Faculty of Science has a Programme Committee (PC), where students and lecturers work together to monitor education and provide advice on educational policy.

View more about the PCs

Institute assessors

The Institute assessor has an advisory function within the Educational Institute, where it represents the students of their specific study. Additionally, the institute assessor forms the link between the Educational Institute and the Programme Committee of their studies. The current institute assessors are: 

  • biologieassessor [at] science.ru.nl (Biosciences): Hazal Doğan and Romy Geuvers
  • assessor-chemistry [at] science.ru.nl (Chemistry): Ulysse Gross
  • assessor [at] cs.ru.nl (Computing Science & Information Sciences)Horatiu-Gabriel Ros and Mohammed Aljalab
  • assessor-mls [at] science.ru.nl (Molecular Life Sciences): Jildou van Calis
  • assessor.physics [at] science.ru.nl (Physics and Astronomy): Daniël Visser
  • assessor-science [at] science.ru.nl (Science): Daphne Clarijs
  • assessor [at] math.ru.nl (Mathematics): Tristan van der Schaaf

PROBE

PROBE is an informal structure of all Faculty of Science institutes, serving as a gateway between Faculty of Science/RU bodies and PhD students. PROBE signals problems and complaints concerning your PhD trajectory (i.e. PhD courses, teaching obligations, supervision, defence) and put these on the agendas of the relevant Faculty of Science/RU bodies, such as PON, the Representative Council and the faculty board.

Therefore, we join the PON meetings, have a meeting with the Dean twice a year and talk with the PhD representatives of the FNWI OC on a regular base. Sometimes we sent interesting information to PhD's (i.e. new rules and regulations, courses and job opportunities).

PROBE does not have a formal voice in the policy structure of FNWI. We believe, however, that by sharing information between FNWI institutes/departments on a PhD level and addressing PhD related issues, we do have impact on the quality of your PhD trajectory!

Members

Mariya Nizovkina (IMAPP)
Mayte (Maria Teresa) Alejo Vinogradova (RIMLS)
Diana Hofman (RIBES)
Eline Bovy (iCIS)
Jill van der Kamp (ISiS)

If you have any complaints, suggestions or other issues regarding your PhD trajectory you would like to share with us, feel free to contact PROBE.