Pien van den Abeele is a Cyber Security professional with an academic and practical background in the field. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Computing Science and a master’s degree in Cyber Security from Radboud University in Nijmegen. Her passion for technology began early in high school, making her choice of study a natural one. During her studies, Pien gained hands-on experience working part-time as a Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst at Fox-IT, where she developed a technical foundation in threat detection and response. Seeking a greater balance between technical challenges and human interaction, she transitioned to Eye Security as a Cyber Security Consultant. Currently, Pien works as a consultant once again at Fox-IT, where she enjoys combining both the technical and social aspects of cyber security. Outside of work, she enjoys reading, playing video games and exploring the world on her motorcycle.

Gabriela Godlewski is a Technical Business Developer at Barge Master, where she combines technical knowledge with her strong communication skills to drive projects forward. Her career path has been an adventure. Inspired by her experience with Hurricane Sandy, she came to the TU Delft to pursue a master’s in flood risk. After graduating, she worked at Haskoning, participating in a variety of flood and climate risk projects located in the Netherlands and around the world. During this time in her career, she discovered a passion for client communication. Now at Barge Master, she combines these passions to bring motion-compensation solutions that enable efficient offshore construction in three languages – English, Dutch, and Polish. Outside of work, she is very involved in the local art community in Delft and Rotterdam. She illustrates scenes from her life and travels as well as contributes to community outreach initiatives that promote art and creativity in daily life.

I’m Flien Groeneveld, founder of TREND& (TREND& | Strategy & Design), a strategic design agency that mixes design and strategy: Creating designs with a strategic approach, and strategies with a design mindset. I believe a design mindset is essential in the age of AI - it helps us shape technology around people, not the other way around. I love helping organizations explore how AI can add real value. For example, I’ve led an AI workshop for creative teams at HEMA, supported municipalities in automating tasks, and worked with asr on AI for financial decision-making.

Today, I’m also a Corporate Management Trainee at KLM, a two-year program that develops future leaders, where I’m working on four strategic projects focused on making the organization more innovative and future-ready.

Two years ago, I attended the Librae Dinner as a student - and I’m excited to now return, share experiences and exchange ideas!

Mona zum Felde is an urban designer by profession and a climate activist by heart. Driven by curiosity, determination and the intrinsic motivation to reduce the impact of climate change on people and the planet, in her work she focuses on climate adaptation, urban resilience, (urban) water management and sustainable urban development.

She currently works as Senior Consultant Climate Adaptation and Water at &flux. Before joining the &flux team, Mona worked as a designer and researcher at Defacto urbanism on a variety of projects in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Relevant projects include various assignments on ‘water and soil systems as guiding principles for spatial developments’, researched on the spatial impact of long-term strategies for sea level rise, and a strategy for Nature-based Solutions for urban water management in Kigali, Rwanda. Clients include ministries, provinces, water boards and the World Bank, among others.

Mona ****holds a Master degree in Urbanism from Delft University of Technology. She received an honourable mention for her graduation project, where she investigated the opportunities for the integration of urban water management and urban development to reduce climate change impacts in unplanned settlements in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Outside of work she uses her determination and strategic thinking on the rugby pitch, first as a player and now as a trainer.

Anjali Shah is a Structural Engineer at Fluor Corporation, where she specializes in the design and analysis of complex industrial structures across both industrial and infrastructure projects. She moved from Nepal to the Netherlands to pursue her Master’s degree in Civil Engineering at TU Delft - a journey that has profoundly shaped both her personal and professional growth. Over the past three years, she has contributed to multidisciplinary projects that encompass both design and execution, fueling her passion for applying engineering principles to solve real-world challenges. Alongside her technical career, Anjali is committed to fostering diversity and inclusion for women in STEM. She values the power of mentorship and open dialogue, and she actively supports students and early-career professionals by sharing her journey and encouraging them to pursue their goals with confidence. As a role model at the Librae Dinner, she looks forward to connecting with attendees, offering guidance, and sharing insights to help aspiring women in STEM navigate their own paths. She believes that creating spaces where different voices and perspectives are heard is essential to driving innovation and building stronger, more supportive communities. Outside of work, Anjali enjoys reading, traveling, and photography

Myrto Karampela-Makrygianni is a practising architect and independent researcher with master’s studies both at TU Delft and at the University of Patras. She is currently working as a junior architect at OMA, where she combines her experience from practising architecture in Greece with her academic interests. Her work motivation derives from her strong belief that spatial sciences can play a crucial role in addressing the 21st-century crises, facilitating alternative forms of coexistence between humans and more-than-humans. In this direction, her research work brings together architecture, urbanism, landscape design, cartography, art, and philosophy in an ongoing attempt to engage critically with the complex conditions of contemporary design.

Hedvig is a Sr. Specialist Solutions Engineer focused on Data Engineering at Databricks. She began her career at Amazon as a Business Analyst intern before transitioning to a full-time role in a Data Engineering team, where she discovered her interest in this field. Coming from a business school background rather than a traditional engineering path, Hedvig is entirely self-taught in her technical skills, having trained herself from the ground up on the job. What drew her to technical teams was her fascination with the complex problems they tackle and the significant impact that comes from building solutions from scratch. Despite her technical focus, she remains a strong advocate for the importance of soft skills in the field, and understanding the business need first before jumping into the technical solution. Outside of work, she loves cooking and doing sports, be that running, hitting the gym, practicing yoga, or rowing.

Alexandra is an FPGA Design Engineer at Qblox, a pioneering startup developing scalable quantum control stacks. She holds a MSc in Computer Engineering from TU Delft and a BSc in Systems Engineering from the University Politehnica of Bucharest.

Driven by her passion for digital hardware design and computer architectures, Alexandra has explored how hardware systems come to life, from transistor-level implementations to high-level hardware programming. Her career spans from fabless semiconductor companies, where she worked on digital layout design, to cutting-edge R&D applications such as Neuromorphic computing (at imec NL) and quantum control hardware at Qblox.

During her studies, Alexandra also dedicated time to volunteering for social and educational events such as TEDx and for organizations encouraging girls to pursue technology, including Codette. She is motivated by the challenges of building technology that bridges theory and reality, and happy to empower others to explore the exciting field of hardware design. Outside of work, she enjoys reading, art and learning languages.

Karolina Wróbel is a Security Solution Engineer at Microsoft, where she helps organizations strengthen their cyber resilience through cloud-native security solutions and strategic threat protection. She holds a Master’s degree in Crisis and Security Management from Leiden University, where her research focused on the governance of cyber threats and public–private collaboration in the security domain. She also holds a Bachelor's degree in Security Studies.

Before joining Microsoft, Karolina gained experience in academia and public engagement, serving as an Honours Academy Ambassador and Student Information Officer at Leiden University. She was also involved in quantitative research about political sentiment towards the tension on the Polish-Belarusian border called the Political Talk project.

What drives her most is empowering people to understand and manage digital risks with confidence. She believes that technology should not only protect but also enable - fostering trust, innovation, and collaboration across sectors

On a personal note: Karolina is from the suburbs of Warsaw, Poland from where she moved to the Netherlands in 2021. Outside of work, Karolina enjoys reading non-fiction books, watching movies and dancing.

Femke Hoogkamer studied Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment of the Technical University of Delft. She works as a sustainability project leader for the company De Groene Grachten. This company specializes in making monumental buildings more sustainable in a way that the building needs less energy (through insulation, installations, and optimized use). She lived and worked for over twenty years in Brazil, where she contributed to small architectural projects like interior designs, as well as large projects like the expansion of the Campinas International Airport. Femke enjoys traveling, visiting museums, and reading books.

Anouk te Nijenhuis is working in flood risk management and innovation manager with the Dutch Flood Protection Program. She was senior policy advisor at the Ministry of Public Works and Watermanagement for 20 years. Enjoyed having a vital role in Room for the River policy and projects. Developed with an enthusiastic team flood legislation on acceptable flood risk.

After her MSc Civil Engineering in Delft, Anouk started her career as a hydrologist with Witteveen en Bos, moved to Egypt for work. As former chair of the Rhine committee on hydrology she values local, national and international perspectives. This position felt overwhelming and even scary at first. But taught her that you never stop surprising yourself.

The implementation of policy and legislation is often a struggle. She got hurt every now and then. And some blows were definitely NOT okay. But the result is rewarding.

She will be happy to share her dilemma’s in work and career (spoiler: stay true to yourself). Cycling and hiking gives her ample opportunity to enjoy water outside working hours. Cross country skiing brings her best of nature. Books and  family lift up her spirit in every season.

It started with the dream of becoming an inventor.

With creative problem solving through prototyping and user experience research she loves creating innovative applications that make life easier and more beautiful. Inspired by a certain tinker fairy…A background in Interaction Technology (MSc) has given Leyla experience in User Research. This broad background involved courses from computer science, industrial design, psychology, electrical engineering and general research techniques. Creating the optimal User Experience always being the goal.After her studies, she moved to Switzerland to become a ‘professional inventor’. Here, she worked on several projects, one of which involved the development of an ultrasonic bone cutter that could cut through bone, but not hard tissue.After three lovely years in Switzerland, she moved back to the Netherlands to work on making the lives of caregivers more beautiful. Now, she aims at answering caregiver needs by connecting development, production and service teams.

Svava is a senior developer and tech trainer at Picnic. She started as an intern 5 years ago, worked her way to a tech lead position and now has a dual role: improving the developer experience in the Developer Platform team, and teaching courses on technical writing and technical leadership as part of Picnic's Tech Academy program. She has also been heavily involved in recruitment activities and diversity initiatives, participating in panel discussions and speaking at conferences for Women in Tech. Outside of work she enjoys weightlifting, video games and creative activities such as sewing and knitting.

Maroua is the founder and CEO of La Náy, a science led baby and kids skincare brand from the Netherlands. Trained as a pediatric public health nurse, she later earned an MSc in Health Sciences with a focus on digital health. She worked on early prevention and healthy infant and child development. On the ground, she turned frontline nursing insights into better digital records and practical AI pilots, which cemented her drive to build safe and simple solutions at scale. With La Náy she pairs clinically tested formulas with an AI powered care layer that offers clear ingredient education, smart routine guidance, and transparent product data for parents. As a young mother of two, she designs with real families in mind and partners with Make A Wish Netherlands to give back. What motivates her is straightforward. Create gentle and effective products. Make science easy to trust. Help parents care with confidence. And show young women that STEM lives in skincare, data, and design.

I have been fascinated by aviation for as long as I can remember. As a child, I loved the series Air Crash Investigation and dreamed of becoming a flight attendant or even a pilot. After finishing high school, I made that dream come true by working as a flight attendant. To explore whether becoming a pilot was right for me, I took up gliding (flying an aircraft without an engine) at the age of 15, which only deepened my love for aviation. However, my curiosity about how aircraft actually work led me to study Aeronautical Engineering in Delft.

During my studies, I was often one of the few girls during lectures, but that challenged me to stand out and show what I was capable of. I also gained internship experience with the Royal Netherlands Air Force and the Dutch Safety Board.

At a company event, I discovered the Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR), where I later found my dream job. As a ‘Vakreferent Lucht- en Ruimtevaart’ (Aerospace Information Specialist), I combine technical expertise, analytical skills, and a people-oriented approach. I also contribute to the Emerging Technologies program and the Smarter Foresight project, where my passion for innovation and defence comes together. Outside of work, I enjoy motorcycling, running, cycling, and cooking – always seeking new energy and inspiration.

Changing systems – at scale. That has been the red thread in my career. After I graduated in Delft (after arriving as a Dutch ‘international’ student) as a Strategic Product Designer I started working at a large consulting firm Deloitte. I rode the Gartner hype cycle during the time Blockchain tech was hot as part of the Blockchain Team. For years I was the only woman. But I had always been the odd one from the group, following my own path. I then worked in the Strategy & Innovation team, mainly working on digital transformations and new propositions. Social impact and inequality was always a big driver for me and after a sabbatical of a year, followed by a failed venture in the Venture Capital space I am now working on getting more women into entrepreneurship and helping them in their journey.

Marly works at Tata Steel. After graduating with a master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology, she began her career at Tata Steel through their traineeship program. During this traineeship, she worked on various improvement projects with a strong focus on cost reduction to enhance profitability. These projects took place both on-site at several production plants and in Port Talbot.

After completing the traineeship, Marly started working in the Basic Oxygen Steelplant, first as head of the local maintenance support department and later as team lead maintenance. She currently holds the position of Head of the Tata Maintenance Service Team, which carries out a wide variety of specialized maintenance work on-site. Her role combines management responsibilities, internal customer relations, and the execution of various safety- and efficiency-focused projects.

Pompina Singh is a Product Manager at a cybersecurity firm, where she thrives on being the central information hub and guiding cross‑functional teams to solve customer problems. She holds an MBA from TIAS School for Business and Society, Tilburg University, and a Master's degree in Software Engineering. Pompina began her career in the software industry in 2008 in Bangalore, India, and has since focused on building high‑quality cybersecurity products designed to protect users. Outside of work, she enjoys connecting with people and engaging in conversations about life’s motivations. She firmly believes that hard work and perseverance can take you anywhere, and that willingly embracing challenges is the path to ultimate success.

Vanesa Fernandez Cid is a PhD in Chemical Engineer turned entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in supercritical CO₂ technology and the development of regulated products. After earning her doctorate in 2005 at the TU Delft, she transitioned from scientific research to leadership, co-founding and managing several companies across Europe and North America in the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors.

Vanesa began her work in the cannabinoid field in 2007 at Echo Pharmaceuticals, where she later served as CEO. Under her leadership, the company evolved from a start-up into a mature pharmaceutical organization, conducting more than nine clinical trials in CNS and pain disorders. She developed and executed an intellectual property strategy that resulted in two distinctive, market-ready pharmaceutical products.

Today, Vanesa serves as Director of the Product Division at FeyeCon Carbon Dioxide Technologies BV, and is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Folium Europe BV and OCHO Amsterdam BV, companies she co-owns that develop, manufacture, and globally supply high-quality active pharmaceutical ingredients and consumer products derived from Cannabis sativa.

Her expertise spans product innovation, clinical development, and regulatory compliance. Throughout her career, she has led international teams, built GMP-certified production systems, and contributed to numerous scientific publications and patents advancing sustainable and pharmaceutical technologies.

Michi Benthaus is a space engineer with a background in mechatronics and a master’s degree in aerospace engineering. She currently works as an EGT at the European Space Agency (ESA). In 2018, Michis life took an unexpected turn after a mountain biking accident that resulted in a spinal cord injury. Undeterred, she has continued to pursue her passion for space and science, taking part in both a zerog flight and an analog astronaut mission, demonstrating her resilience and dedication to advancing human space exploration. Soon, she will fly to space on a suborbital flight with Bue Origin as the first wheelchair user ever. Outside of work, Michi still likes to do sports, especially wheelchair tennis. 

Peggy van Ommeren-Mulder is a systemic trainer and coach specializing in holistic female leadership.

Originally an engineer, she has over fifteen years of experience in the corporate world, including at Heineken. In her work, she connects the analytical with the intuitive: the upper current with the undercurrent, the masculine with the feminine.

Since 2014, Peggy has been guiding women toward authentic and intuitive leadership. Her style is clear, engaging, and always focused on growth based on each individual's own strengths.

She recognizes that many women tend to keep themselves small and conform to expectations. By teaching women to trust their inner wisdom, Peggy helps them become more authentic. This allows them to take leadership with greater confidence and confidently take the next step in their careers.

Her mission: more women at the top.

Peggy was a singer with the Hermes House Band from 1995 to 1998 and with Catweasel from 1998 to 2004. During her student days, she was active in the cabaret committee of the student association Sanctus Virgilius, of which she was also a member. She also enjoys hockey and sailing.

You can read more about her at www.inhetmaanlicht.nl/overmij.

Britt van der Linden is a passionate Sustainability Consultant at Van der Bouw in Delft. She is driven by the belief that real change happens when people, innovation, and sustainability come together. With a background in Biology (BSc) and Biomedical Sciences with a consultancy profile (MSc) from Radboud University Nijmegen, Britt combines a scientific mindset with a creative, people-centered approach to problem-solving. During her studies, she discovered her enthusiasm for consultancy at De Kleine Consultant and deepened her passion for sustainable business during her internship at P2, a B Corporation that inspired her to pursue impact-driven work. Britt began her career as an Industrial Sustainability Consultant at Bilfinger Engineering, where she transformed complex technical challenges into actionable sustainability improvements. Now at Van der Bouw, she continues to help organizations turn ambition into real impact. What truly drives Britt is working with people—bringing together diverse perspectives, sparking inspiration, and acting as a change agent for a more sustainable future. With her creativity and collaborative energy, she aims to bridge the gap between vision and execution, helping teams move from ideas to tangible, lasting change.