Speaker: Robert Jan de Boer

Robert J. de Boer MSc PhD (1965) was trained as an aerospace engineer at Delft University of Technology. He graduated in human-machine systems and earned a cum laude degree in 1988 on the thresholds of the vestibular system. After gaining experience in line management and consulting, he joined Fokker Technologies in 1999, where he worked as Director of Engineering at Fokker Aerostructures from 2002 to 2007.

Mid-career, he switched to academia and earned his PhD from Delft University of Technology in May 2012. From 2009 to 2018, Robert was a professor of Aviation Engineering at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Currently, he is the director of SDO University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands and also teaches safety management there. He is active as a scientist and consultant in the oil and gas, defense, nuclear, healthcare, and aviation industries. He helped set up successful Restorative Just Culture courses in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and his book on Safety Leadership was published by CRC press in the spring of 2021 and has been well received.