Miriam Luizink graduated in Applied Physics at the University of Twente in 1998. From 1996 until 1998 Miriam worked at Akzo Nobel Central Research on the topic of optical switches. From 1998 until 2001 she worked at the Dutch Telecom company KPN on optical network innovations; at first as researcher in the Netherlands followed by a two-year period as consultant in Costa Rica. From 2002 till 2006 she worked as project manager for regional economic development at Development Agency East Netherlands. Since 2006 Miriam Luizink holds the position of technical-commercial director of MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, and since 2007 she is also director of High Tech Factory, a shared production facility for micro- and nanotech based companies.
Miriam Luizink is member of:
The valorization platform of NanoNed, the Dutch research and innovation program on nanotechnology;
- The steering committee NanoLab NL, the national nanotech facility and consortium;
- The board of MinacNed, the Dutch association for micro- and nanotechnology.
