Laurents Sesink
Laurents Sesink has a broad background in the area of Open Science and is currently strategic relations manager at SURF. SURF is the mandated organisation for the Netherlands in the EOSC-A. Laurents is partly responsible for representing Dutch stakeholders and fostering the engagement of the Netherlands Open Science field in EOSC.
Laurents studied internal politics at Utrecht University and historical information science (Digital Humanities) at Leiden University and began his career (1995-2014) at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences where he was involved in open access, data management, digital longevity, Digital Humanities, Research Infrastructures and EC funded projects to foster data management, develop interoperability standards for scholarly communication and build technical infrastructures to enable Data Science.
In 2014 Laurents started to work as Head Innovation & Projects at Leiden University Libraries and was appointed Head of the Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) in 2016. The central objective of CDS is to support and facilitate digital scholarship (Research Data Management, Open Access, copyright, Open Science and Data Science) within Leiden University, in close collaboration with other centres of expertise, with research institutes and with national and international research support organisations. In 2022 Laurents joined SURF as strategic relations manager.
