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Career evening - May 6, 2026
On Wednesday May 6th, 2026, starting from 17:45h, our annual career evening is held. We have invited several alumni who will share about their careers and the career choices they have made.
This edition, we have a nice combination of interesting speakers, inspiring for all VSI members, and especially for students in their (penultimate or) final year of study who are thinking about a PhD-promotion or a first job after graduation.
On May 6th, we will even have 3 speakers in different stages of their career!
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Date & Time
Wednesday, May 6th.
17h45 - 22h00 (career evening will start at 19h00)
Location
Helix STC0.01 & F.O.R.T.
Program
Walk-in: 17h45
Dinner: 18h15
Career evening: 19h00 to 21h00.
Drinks: 21h00
End: 22h00
Who
Alumni members and students Japie.
Speakers
Fabrice Fontein
Fabrice obtained his bachelor's degree and master's degree from Eindhoven University of Technology. During his studies, he gained a lot of new insights in Chemistry, Chemical Process Engineering, Risk Perception and Management but also Human Behavior within and outside organizations. I've had the opportunity to see Chemistry and Chemical Engineering around the world in different cultures. His motivation? "Chemistry is everywhere, both inside us and around us. That is what makes it so interesting." Nowadays, he works as a Production and Warehouse Manager at SGL.
Mellany van Heijningen-Ramaekers
Mellany van Heijningen earned her bachelor's, master's, and PhD degrees in Eindhoven. She built a career in the pharmaceutical industry, advanced into management, earned her Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and did everything an engineer is expected to do. After which she consciously stepped out.
Today, she is a certified EMCC Practitioner coach, breath coach, dance teacher, and founder of Move Your Senses, a company situated at the intersection of science and intuition. Her clients are tech professionals and organizations realizing that brainpower alone is not enough.
Her story is not a departure from science. It is a different way of using it.
Reidar Timmermans
Started his career as process technologist in the Food industry, already after a few years Reidar developed himself towards (senior) production/operations management roles (Perfetti van Melle, Bavaria, Daelmans). Around 15 years ago he switched to the High Tech Industry and became more and more a Senior Lean Operations Professional and enriched his skills with Supply Chain Management (ASML Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Schneider Electric, Wilvo and currently NTS Mechatronics).
Throughout all his management roles he has always been focusing on people development, what can he do everyday to enable them to do their best possible job. His team is the most valuable and most important aspect in his working life, therefore they always are on his pole position.
It is very nice for Reidar to be back (again) at VSI/e where he has been a board member and chairman for several years: "Happy and looking forward to tell you more about my path, decisions, setbacks, failures and off course positive experiences."