As of 1 January 2023, the IPN board welcomes Prof.dr Marieke Huisman as a new IPN Board member. Marieke is the successor of Prof.dr Patricia Lago, as her second term as IPN Board member ended. IPN wants to thank Prof.dr Patricia Lago for her contribution over the past six years.

The term of all IPN board members expired as of January 2023. The other board members (Prof.dr Catholijn Jonker, Prof.dr Andy Pimentel, Prof.dr Gerard Barkema and Prof.dr Han La Poutré) are available for a second term on the board and they will continue to dedicate their time to IPN. Within the IPN Board, the portfolio responsibilities of Marieke will include the SIG VERSEN and the NWO Round Table Computer Science.

Get to know the new IPN Board member:

Marieke Huisman is professor of Software Reliability at Twente University, where she leads the Formal Methods and Tools Group. As a former co-chair of the IPN EDI Working Group, Marieke has been actively involved in improving equity, diversity and inclusion in the Dutch ICT community. Furthermore, Marieke is a member of the NWO Round Table Computer Science, is president of the ETAPS association and is a well-respected member of the executive board of the Dutch National Association for Software Engineering VERSEN and an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Software Track of Science in Computer Programming. In 2013, Marieke won the Netherlands Prize for ICT Research.