Distinguished Lecture Series : Design of Surgical Devices for LOW-Resource Settings

Jenny Dankelman is professor in Minimally Invasive Surgery and Interventional Techniques at the Delft University of Technology. She obtained her degree in Mathematics, with a specialisation in System and Control Engineering at the University of Groningen in 1984, and PhD at the Delft University of Technology (DUT) in 1989. In 2001 she was awarded the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek chair, and shortly after she became head of the Minimally Invasive Surgery and Interventional Techniques group. Between 2010 and 2014 she was Head of the Department of BioMechanical Engineering, and in 2013 she became Medical Delta professor. She was awarded a Royal Award in 2018 and became Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion, the highest civilian order of chivalry in the Netherlands that is awarded to those with merits of a very exceptional nature for society. In 2019 she became Professor of Excellence of the DUT and in the same year, she became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.