Non-Academic Mentors
Non-academic mentors are former MoL students or ILLC PhD candidates who successfully pursued a career outside of academia. They are happy to help out present or recently graduated MoL students to find their way to a non-academic career as well. They can give advice and tips and answer questions from their own personal experience.
Below there is a list of the non-academic mentors, with the year they graduated, their present job and a link to the short history of what happened in between.
If you are interested in advise from one of them, please contact the coordinator of the MoL at mol-illc at uva.nl, and they will make sure you are contacted by the mentor of your preference.
Heleen Booy (MoL 2013)
- High school teacher in Logic at the Hyperion Lyceum, Amsterdam.
Andreea van Ham (MoL 2014)
- Chief of staff for the risk delivery team at Oliver Wyman.
Thom van Gessel (MoL 2016)
- Researcher Data Science at TNO.
- PhD at ILLC in 2020
Tikitu de Jager (MoL 2005)
- mobile developer (iOS & Android) with Minddistrict
- PhD at the ILLC in 2009
Nal Kalchbrenner (MoL 2012)
- Deep Learning Scientist, Co-founder, and Angel Investor at Google Brain Amsterdam
Mrinalini Luthra (MoL 2018)
- Data-ethicist at the Huygens Institute, KNAW.
Lucy van Oostveen (MoL 2018)
- Data Scientist at the Dutch Environmental and Transport Inspectorate (Inspectie Leefomgeving en Transport)
Annemieke Reijngoud (MoL 2011)
- Director of Strategy at ProRail, Amsterdam
- Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, Amsterdam (2017-2021)
Ana Lucia Vargas (MoL 2015)
- Product Owner/Manager at Sowiso.
- PhD at the ILLC in 2020