Author: Sabine te Braake

People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, Innovation Origins has a talk with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven. Name: Beatriz Ramos Vaquero Country of origin: Spain Work: engineer and troubleshooter at ASML “Hello! I’m so sorry, I was on time, but the zipper of my dress broke, and that is not charming at all, certainly when I’m being photographed,” Beatriz apologizes for being a few minutes late while she is cycling towards us on her vintage Peugeot bike. We can imagine she wanted to change,...

People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, Innovation Origins has a talk with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven. Name: Sheba Yu Country of Origin: China Study and work: studying Dutch and starting up a business On a sunny morning we enter DenF coffee, looking around if we see Sheba. After a while we spot her. We are very excited to meet up with her, because she is the first Chinese person who said yes to our interview request. “That’s because they don’t like to be...

People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, Innovation Origins has a talk with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven. Name: Llewelyn van Zyl Country of origin: South Africa Work: Assistant Professor of Work and Organisational Psychology at TU/e and an Extraordinary Professor at the North-West University, Optentia Research Programme. Hidden behind modern buildings on the university campus you find the Paviljoen. A single-story building with a maze of hallways, classroom, and offices. What’s so special about that, you might think. Well, the base of this building...

People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, Innovation Origins has a talk with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven. Name: Val Moon Country of origin: Cameroon Study: Marketing Strategy Master at Erasmus University There is some time between the first contact with Val via e-mail and our actual meeting. He was swamped with events and commitments for his study, so we scheduled after the dust has settled a bit. After ordering coffee we start talking on what is like to live in the Netherlands as a...

People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, Innovation Origins has a talk with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven. Name: Juliá Delos Ayllon Country of Origin: Catalonia Work: Entrepreneur Juliá lives in one of the loft buildings on Strijp S. When we are on his floor, we enter a sterile looking hallway. On the left are offices, so for a moment we are confused: is it Juliá’s house or office we are visiting? After we ring the doorbell, we get the answer: it’s Juliá’s home. Next...