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I am an assistant professor in Science, Business and Innovation at the Faculty of Science of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. As an interdisciplinary and international scholar with broader expertise in the field of science and technology, I currently work on topics related to business, innovation and sustainable value creation in the life science industry as well as energy. I am involved in setting up and deploying projects related to tech appropriation for radical an disruptive innovation in highly complex fields such as healthcare and advancing current therapeutics and care pathways for patients with different chronic and occupational diseases. Additionally, I participate in research related to techno-economic modelling and future foresight for photovoltaics in specific China regions.
I have worked in international academic and non-academic settings with partners from the US, Italy, Germany, UK, Spain, Iceland, France, China and South Africa; at governmental levels in Portugal related to science policy agenda setting; and within the framework of university governance and internationalisation policy in the Netherlands. I have been an advisor to healthcare related projects on technology adoption and on the research processes in collaborative educational programmes at polytechnic institutes in Portugal and universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands.
Furthermore, I am an expert on university governance, internationalization in doctoral education and marketing due to several years in a management position within a university.
During my PhD studies, I was a teaching assistant on the course related to qualitative methodologies as well a course on organization science fundamentals.
Currently, I am teaching:
Master course Business, Innovation and Value Creation in the Life Science Industry
Bachelor course Research Design and Methodology
I regularly supervise bachelor projects, master thesis and PhD candidates.
Portuguese Science and Foundation Scholarship for PhD studies (2013 – 2017), Lisbon, Portugal National
Scholarship for students with extraordinary achievements by the Ministry of Education and Sport of the Republic of Serbia (2009 – 2011), Belgrade, Serbia
Best Students’ Award, Republic of Serbia (2005 – 2009), Belgrade, Serbia
Horizon 2020 ITN (partner) – “ADAPTED” Eradicating poverty: pathways towards achieving sustainable development goals, Bochum University, Sorbonne University, University of Western Cape South Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Erasmus University and others
(with colleagues from CIS Henk van den Heuvel, IVM Philipp Pattberg and Faculty of Law Galina Cornelisse)
Grant award: cc. total 3.9 million Euros
Horizon 2020 SWAF (partner) – SoftSkills4PhDs via video games with University Rovira i Virgili, Spain, Gecon company and Innsbruck University
Grant award: total 300.000 Euros
Erasmus + KA107 Mobility Cambodia – In collaboration with Prof. Dr. Maiza Campos Ponce (healthcare, Faculty of Science)
Grant amount: 30.000 Euros
Erasmus + KA107 Mobility Chile – In collaboration with Prof. Dr. Erik Verhoef (spatial economics, School of Business and Economics) (started 2019)
Grant amount: 25.000 Euros
Memberships and Affiliations
Member of advisory board of Academic Transfer (for PhD and academic staff recruitment)
Member of advisory board for double and joint PhD agreements in European University Association- Council for Doctoral Education (EUA CDE)
Chair of the AURORA Group on Doctoral Education, AURORA Universities Network
Reviewer for Science nad Public Policy (2021- present)
Reviewer for Higher Education Quarterly (2020 – present)
Reviewer for International Journal in Sustainability in Higher Education (2020 – present)
Reviewer for Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education (2019 – present)
Reviewer for Journal of Educational Studies (2016 – present)
Reviewer for Higher Education (2016 – present)
PhD, ISCTE-IUL Open University Institute Lisbon
Award Date: 16 Feb 2018
PhD, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Award Date: 22 Jan 2018
Master, University of Aveiro
Award Date: 18 Jul 2011
Bachelor, University of Novi Sad
Award Date: 22 Jun 2009
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper › Academic
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: PhD Thesis › PhD-Thesis - Research and graduation internal
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Marlous Blankesteijn (Speaker), Sandra Hasanefendic (Speaker) & KD Augustijn (Speaker)
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
Marlous Blankesteijn (Speaker), BAG Bossink (Speaker), KD Augustijn (Speaker) & Sandra Hasanefendic (Speaker)
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
Sandra Hasanefendic (Speaker)
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic