Biography

Stephan is Lead Program Manager of Research and Valorisation at the newly established Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) since its inception in 2014. The institute has been founded by TU Delft, MIT and Wageningen UR, together with the city of Amsterdam and a consortium of public and private partners. The AMS Institute works on research and innovation for co-creating better cities, bringing together the brightest minds and resources from its founding universities, the city and its business partners. Stephan is responsible for innovation strategy at the AMS Institute and developing the research program of 200M Euro in the next 10 years.

Previously, Stephan has been senior researcher and valorization program manager at the Delft University of Technology in the fields of sustainable urban mobility and smart cities. During his work at the university, he was also interim manager of an incubator for clean-tech start-ups in Rotterdam, and was expert member of a seed investment fund for start-ups in mobility and transportation. 

Stephan received his PhD at Eindhoven University Technology in 2008 in the field of organization science and innovation strategy. He graduated cum laude in Operations Research and Systems Sciences (MSc.) at Wageningen University in 1999. Stephan is an expert in innovation strategy and sustainable and smart cities, and has authored many reports and articles on these topics. During the last 15 years he has worked on innovation and sustainability strategy challenges with partners like Philips, Google, DSM, Schiphol, KLM, the City of Amsterdam, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, City of Rotterdam, and many great startups and universities around the world.

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