The professor:
  • structures the research centre and heads a knowledge group consisting of teacher-researchers from various departments;
  • contributes to strategy development for the faculty, implements it in the form of a multi-year research plan, and heads its performance;
  • uses Zuyd's applied research to strengthen the institution's connections with the regional and international business sector (knowledge exchange);
  • encourages teacher staff to conduct applied research;
  • develops bodies of work to support the specializations within the programmes;
  • promotes dissemination of research results to programmes of the faculty (curriculum development);
  • gets students, teaching staff, and industry involved in the research of the research centre (professionalization of students, teaching staff, and industry);
  • delivers inspiring lectures in the programmes of the FIBC and seminars for teaching staff in the economic field and in industry;
  • monitors the level and quality of finishing students and the embedding of an inquiring and enterprising attitude on the part of students;
  • supervises the research to be performed and monitors its quality;
  • publishes in relevant Dutch and international journals;
  • takes responsibility for acquisition of external financing (public research funding and project-based funding) in the form of grant procedures;
  • supervises one or two PhD students on research areas relating to the subjects of the research centre;
  • undertakes cooperation initiatives with the research centres within the faculties of Economics, Languages, and Law, seeking to follow the Zuyd focus areas defined around Innovative Care and Technology, Transition to a Sustainable Built Environment, and Life Sciences & Materials;
  • works closely with the educational institutions in Maastricht and the Euroregion and with international educational and research partners in the growth markets;
  • contributes to knowledge transfer and value enhancement by regularly organizing seminars and presentations for entrepreneurs and special interest organizations in close cooperation with the school's contract department Zuyd Education & Training;
  • initiates and maintains international cooperation with partners of the school, and makes a substantive contribution to the specifics of this cooperation.