Prof. Simone Buitendijk

Vice-Rector of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and member of the LERU (League of European Research Universities) Steering Group for the advice paper on Gender in Academia

Simone Buitendijk is the Vice-Rector of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. She holds the chair of Women’s and Family Health at Leiden University Medical Center. She is a member of the LERU (League of European Research Universities) Steering Group for the advice paper on Gender in Academia, on which she will be presenting at EGS2012. As Vice Rector, she is responsible for education, student affairs, diversity and Human Resource Management. She received her MD at University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, MPH at Yale in the US, and PhD at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She is a member of the National Health Council that advises the Dutch Government on national issues in health.

Conference moderator

Report on Gender Equality Action from The League of European Research Universities (LERU) Session 2 Integrating the Gender Dimension in Research and Innovation Landscape