Digital Twins – HotTopics Session on 22 April

Venue: VU Amsterdam, New Building, Theater 7

22 April 2026 – 12:30 – 17:00

Registration through this link.

Registration deadline: April 12

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Agenda of the meeting:

12:30 registration

12:50 introduction

13:00 Alfons Hoekstra (UvA): Digital Twins in Healthcare, from hype to real impact for patients: the case of Acute Ischemic Stroke. 

13:35 Ruth Grosseholz (UM): Building Blocks for Plant Digital Twins: A Methodological Perspective

14:10 Coffee

14:40 Niki Paspali (UvA): Generative peptide design targeting Parkinson’s disease

15:15 Thijs van der Plas (WUR): Creating ecosystem digital twins using machine learning and citizen-science data

15:50 Rik van Rosmalen (dsm-firmenich): A digital twin of the strain engineering cycle

16:25 Borrel