Paul Tuinenburg is one of the founders of Global Campus. He studied Innovation Sciences in Utrecht and in a way that background is still reflected in the way we work at Global Campus. Mainly because we are continuously involved in all sorts of interesting and innovative projects that are in one way or another related to the academic system and new technological developments in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. To give an idea, we worked with Techleap on visualizing the Dutch academic landscape and spin-offs. We are collaborating with ResearchConnect to make it easier for academics to find relevant funding opportunities. We have created ScienceBase for grants offices to visualize the amount of funds they received from Horizon Europe and we are working with Academic Transfer to make it easy for PhD’s in the world to find a promotor in the Netherlands.
Last but not least, we are obviously continuously improving Global Campus as well with features that make it even easier to find the right academic expert for your peer review process, as a candidate for your vacancy in your research group or as a potential academic collaborator.

However, personally Paul doesn’t work on the technical part. He focuses on the non-technical part of the company. That means, meetings with prospects, (potential) partners and customers. Going to events, handling demo’s, sales meetings, user meetings, negotiations and contracts. However, the most important task in the company for the rest of the team is probably the fact that he makes sure there is a proper lunch served everyday!

Next to running Global Campus, Paul might even be working harder at home with a 2 year old and twins of a few months old. This ensures a lot of fun and very active days at home. He hopes to restart his (Dutch) podcast about entrepreneurship once things settled down at home a bit. In this podcast Paul discusses his own struggles and the struggles of other entrepreneurs whilst enjoying a whisky.