Curiosity is to keep digging
Maurice Vanderfeesten merges ideas at the intersection of research information infrastructure, open science and innovation to help build a shared knowledge commons where scientific knowledge is accessible to everyone, now and for generations to come.
He is Innovation Manager Research Services at the University Library of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he develops services for Open Science, scholarly communication workflows and research intelligence.
He also acts as a strategic advisor on Open Research Information at SURF, working on initiatives that strengthen open research information infrastructures and help connect information about Dutch publicly funded research in the public domain.
Maurice studied Information Sciences at Utrecht University and has worked across the Dutch research infrastructure landscape at SURF, TU Delft and VU Amsterdam, contributing to open access repositories, research data management and metadata standards used in infrastructures such as OpenAIRE.
His current work explores how AI can help make research more readable and accessible, supporting his broader mission to build a shared knowledge commons where scientific knowledge is accessible to everyone, now and for generations to come.
His creative passions are in making Music, Theatre, Photography & Video. Elements he often uses in his presentations.
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