Members of the Board
Jan-Ton Prinsze (Chairman)
Jan-Ton has over 20 years of experience at Canon in supply chain management, customer operations, sales and marketing both at the headquarters as well as in national sales organizations. Jan-Ton is a Board member of Canon Europa NV.
Sabine Zimmer
Born 1972 in Germany joined NT-ware in 2006 after holding various positions in Finance and HR in Germany and Luxembourg. As NT-ware grew, her responsibilities within the Company have expanded. Besides Finance and HR, she is involved in most administrative processes of NT-ware. Besides the tasks at NT-ware, she supports local committees that deal with the education and development of young people in technical areas and in everyday life.
José Ignacio Rodrigo Fernandez (Treasurer and Secretary)
Born in Madrid in 1958, received a First in Law, Economics and Business Administration; has been a Spanish state lawyer since 1984. Appointed as legal advisor to the Spanish Secretary of State for Finance, Director of Fireco and the Ares Bank. Professor of Community Law at Comillas University and State Finance School. In 2008, received Magna Cum Laude as Iuris Doctor by the Law School of the Universidad de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Published and lectured widely.
Members of the Executive Committee
Axel Berkofsky
Professor at the University of Pavia, Italy, Co-Head of the Asia Center at the Milan-based Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) and Research Affiliate at the European Institute of Japanese Studies at the Stockholm School of Economics. Axel Berkofsky is The University of Pavia's Delegate for the Asia-Pacific Region. He is also Executive Committee Board Member at the Stockholm-based European Japan Advanced Research Network (EJARN). Previously, Dr. Berkofsky was Senior Policy Analyst and Associate Policy Analyst at the Brussels-based European Policy Centre (EPC), Research Fellow at the Brussels-based European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS). Axel Berkofsky has published numerous papers, articles and essays in journals, newspapers and magazines and has lectured and taught at numerous think tanks, research institutes and universities in Europe and Asia. His research interests are amongst others Japanese and Chinese foreign and security policies, Chinese history, Asian security and EU-Asia relations.
Lucia Dolce
Lucia Dolce is Numata Professor of Japanese Buddhism at SOAS University of London and Chair of the SOAS Centre of Buddhist Studies as well as the Centre for Japanese Religions. She holds a first degree from the University of Venice (Italy) and a PhD from Leiden University (Netherlands). She has taught at SOAS for over 20 years, and has held visiting and research positions at several institutions in Europe and in Japan. She is on the editorial board of several journals in Japanese studies and Buddhist studies and has been a member of academic review panels and grant-awarding bodies in the US, EU and the UK. Her work combines archival research, textual analysis and fieldwork to explore the practices of Buddhism and the performative and visual dimension of religion in Japan. She has published extensively, in English and in Japanese, on distinct Buddhist traditions, Shinto-Buddhist combinatory cults, ritual studies and religious iconography.
Sandrine Heutz
Sandrine is a Professor in Functional Molecular Materials. She joined the Department of Materials as a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow on 1st January 2007. She obtained her first degree in Chemistry from the University of Liege, Belgium (1998) and her PhD from Imperial College (2002). She has represented the UK in the Materials Science and Engineering Expert Committee (MatSEEC) of the European Science Foundation and is currently the Chair of the Physical Science Strategic Advisory group at EPSRC.
Since April 2020, she is the Imperial co-Director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology. She is also the co-Director of the CNRS - Imperial IRC for Transformational Science and Technology. Since October 2022, she is the Head of the Department of Materials.
Dermot Moran
Professor of Philosophy (Metaphysics & Logic) at University College Dublin, Ireland, and President of the International Federation of Philosophical Studies/Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie (FISP). His books include: The Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena. A Study of Idealism in the Middle Ages (1989), Introduction to Phenomenology (Routledge, 2000), Edmund Husserl. Founder of Phenomenology (Cambridge: Polity, 2005), Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and The Husserl Dictionary (Bloomsbury, 2012), co-authored with Joseph Cohen. He has edited Husserl’s Logical Investigations, 2 vols. (Routledge, 2001), The Shorter Logical Investigations, The Phenomenology Reader, co-edited with Tim Mooney (Routledge, 2002), Phenomenology. Critical Concepts in Philosophy, 5 Volumes, co-edited with Lester E. Embree (Routledge, 2004), The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy (Routledge, 2008) and, with Rasmus Thybo Jensen, The Phenomenology of Embodied Subjectivity (Springer 2014). He is Founding Editor of The International Journal of Philosophical Studies (1993) and Editor of the book series Contributions to Phenomenology (Springer).
Seigo Shima
Born 1960 in Osaka, Japan. Received a Master degree in Agriculture from Osaka Prefectural University and Ph.D in Agriculture from the University of Tokyo. Researcher at Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (1985-1994, Chiba, Japan). 1993-1995 Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Marburg, Germany. Since 1995, Group Leader (Microbial Protein Structure) of the Department of Biochemistry at the Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg.
Nozomi Takahashi
Born in 1956 in Tokyo. Specially Selected Alumna of Keio University (Japan), obtained PhD in molecular biology and biotechnology from Ghent University (Belgium) with the greatest distinction. One of the first recipients of the Canon Foundation Fellowship. Worked as a researcher at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), Radboud University Medical Center (The Netherlands) and Flemish Interuniversity Institute of Biotechnology (VIB)-Ghent University. Author of more than hundred publications in high-impact journals and book chapters. Involved in the earliest phase of discovery, the leitmotif of her research has been Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF), a molecule that plays a major role in human diseases ranging from cancer to sepsis. Later research evolved into the interface between cell biology and immunology with a focus on the mechanisms of cell death and cell survival, their implications in homeostasis, inflammation, cancer, autoimmune diseases and degenerative diseases. Most fascinated by the dichotomy and paradox of intricate biological systems and dogmas replaced by new discoveries.