Participational bodies and committees

The faculty board of the Faculty of Science is supported by participation bodies (representative council and faculty student council), the education policy committee, programme committees, and informal committees such as PROBE.

Ga naar: FJA - RC - FSC - Student assessor - EPC - PC - Institute assessors - PROBE - UHD/HGL

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)

Onderdeelcommissie FNWI 2025

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. 

View the members and subcommittees of the Representative Council

FSR FNWI 2025-2026

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.

FSR 2025-2026

Kirill Alexandrovich Simin (chair)
Noël René Schneider (vice chair)
Jorien Holtermans (secretary)
Maks Haniev (commissioner education)
Özgün Mutlu (commissioner promotion)
Pieter Nijsten (treasurer)

fsr [at] science.ru.nl (fsr[at]science[dot]ru[dot]nl)

Widad Majdoubi student assessor FNWI

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 2025-2026

Widad Majdoubi

assessor-fnwi [at] ru.nl (assessor-fnwi[at]ru[dot]nl)

Education Policy Committee

The main goal of the Education Policy Committee (EPC) is to discuss questions regarding existing education policy and to give advice regarding new policies.

Members EPC 2025-2026

Luca Consoli (education director ITE)
Esther Diebels (education advisor TIP-science)
Martijn Frieling (MD education institutes)
Pauline van der Meer (head OWC)
Margje Kamerling (policy officer education)
Paul Kouwer (education director MW)
Laura van Niftrik (vice-dean education)
Ad Ragas (education director BW)
Sven-Bodo Scholz (education director I&I)
Paul Tiesinga (education director WiNSt)
Sven Vrins (education advisor)

Questions? Please get in touch with secretary Tessa Couwenberg.

Student members EPC 2025-2026

Mark de Jong
Tristan van der Schaaf

obcstudenten [at] science.ru.nl (obcstudenten[at]science[dot]ru[dot]nl)

Programme Committees Faculty of Science

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.

To improve the quality of education, the PC welcomes your input. Do you have a question, comment, or complaint? Contact your Programme Committee. Below, you can find the composition and email addresses of the PCs of the Faculty of Science.

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): Krista Estrada Derks and Machiel Weistra
  • assessor-chemistry [at] science.ru.nl (Chemistry): Christ Meryamka
  • assessor [at] cs.ru.nl (Computing Science & Information Sciences): Meryem Bulut and Sander Breshamer
  • assessor-mls [at] science.ru.nl (Molecular Life Sciences): Lena Vleugels
  • assessor.physics [at] science.ru.nl (Physics and Astronomy): Joep Asbreuk
  • assessor-science [at] science.ru.nl (Natural Sciences): Marijn Favier
  • assessor [at] math.ru.nl (Mathematics): Renske Zeppenfeldt

PROBE

PROBE serves as a gateway between PhD students, the FNWI board, graduate schools, and PON. PROBE commits itself to improving the PhD experience at the Faculty of Science, through signalling issues and complaints concerning the PhD trajectory (i.e. PhD courses, teaching obligations, supervision, defence). Despite lacking formal policy voice, PROBE believes to impact PhD trajectory quality by addressing issues.

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.

phdnetwork [at] science.ru.nl (phdnetwork[at]science[dot]ru[dot]nl)

Members

Yasmin Barenco Abbas (RIMLS)
José Gomes Teixeira & Veronique Stokkers (DCN)
Mignon Hagemeijer & Ching-Han Kuo (ISiS)
Eline Bovy (ICIS)
Diana Hofman (RIBES)
Bente van Son (IMM)
Renze Oosterhuis (IMAPP) 

We are always looking for enthusiastic new members to represent their institutes. If you are interested, please write us an informal message via the email address provided above.

Appointment committees for associate professors and professors

To ensure consistent implementation of the faculty's associate professor and professor policy for academic appointments, both an associate professor (UHD) committee and a professor (HGL) committee have been established.

One of the members of the associate professorial committee is a standard member of the BACs for associate professor appointments. The professorial committee advises on the criteria for personal career trajectories from associate professor-1 to professor, and participates in appointment advisory committees for promotions from associate professor-1 to professor.

For questions and advice:

Chair of the UHD committee: Musa Mhlanga
Chair of the HGL committee: Badri Krishnan