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Aya van den Kroonenberg obtained her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston and was employed at Harvard University as a post­doctoral fellow. She is a mechanical engineer with a specific interest in applying technical principles in the medical field.

After her return to Europe at the beginning of 1996 she continued her career at TNO automotive in Delft, the Netherlands, where she was responsible for the FP4 Brite-Euram project “Whiplash”. In addition, she was groupleader “biomechanics” and led a small team of researchers.

In 1999 Aya made a career switch towards consultancy and was employed by a large consultancy company, PNO. At this company, she was the leader of the “European grant team” and was involved in the preparation of numerous successful FP5 – FP8 grant proposals in various areas including ICT, NMP, Health, KBBE, etc.

Since 2013, Aya is senior partner at Yellow Research specializing in training and consultancy on individual research grants with focus on ERC (StG, CoG, AdG), NWO (VENI, VIDI, VICI), and MSCA actions (IF as well as ITN). The past 15 years Aya has been regularly invited by the European Commission as expert to evaluate FP5-FP8 research proposals within the NMP and ICT-for-Health domain.