Professor of International Trade Management
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.
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