{"id":120048,"date":"2020-11-20T16:42:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T15:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=120048"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:15","slug":"rutger-engels-to-step-down-as-rector-magnificus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2020\/11\/20\/rutger-engels-to-step-down-as-rector-magnificus\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutger Engels to step down as rector magnificus"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rector magnificus of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) Rutger Engels will be stepping down from this position as of 1 January 2020. He was appointed rector magnificus for a period of four years as of June 2018. He will be succeeded by Frank van der Duijn Schouten, who will be appointed as rector ad interim. Engels will stay on as Professor of Psychopathology at EUR.<\/p>\n

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Rutger Engels at the opening of the academic year 2019.<\/span><\/p>

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Engels is withdrawing from EUR\u2019s Executive Board for personal reasons, according to a press statement released today by the university. In response to the Covid crisis, he started thinking about he could best contribute and put his capacities to good use: \u201cI concluded for myself that we desperately need to improve existing policy and interventions in the field of mental health \u2013 and specifically that of adolescents and young adults. I feel a strong obligation to take my responsibility in this context.\u201d Engels will continue to be associated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in his capacity of Professor of Psychopathology.<\/p>\n

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Engels had adopted student welfare, diversity and societal impact as three of the spearheads for his rectorship. During his term (he was appointed in June 2018), the university developed a plan to improve student welfare, introduced a new policy measure to support talented women researchers in moving up to a professorship and assigned a key role to societal impact in its new strategy.<\/p>\n\n\t

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