It was only in 2022 that Tijmen Altena and Paul officially launched Global Campus. However, their experience with the academic system and the use of Natural Language processing and Artificial Inteligence in academic context already started in 2012. Here is more about one of Global Campus founders, Tijmen.

My curiosity motivated me to go for a generic degree (Innovation Sciences) as opposed to something more specific and technical. And this broad interest helps me still – because the subject matter of Global Campus and our other platforms (Impacter or ScienceBase for example) is so varied, but always at the academic frontier. So even when the going is technically tough, there’s a great distraction in the novelty and inventiveness of the underlying research.

When I’m looking back at those first years, more than the challenge I now remember the joy and thrill of solving a challenging problem. And today – solving these challenging puzzles is what I still like most about my work. I should maybe have realized that this work would be a good fit, as in my spare time I like to play board games. Particularly those with complicated puzzles in a co-operative fashion (for the curious or initiated, my favorite is Spirit Island).

In the future I hope that we will be able to solve ever more complex puzzles with our amazing team, and thereby help academics contribute to society by solving their own research riddles.