The team of Zero Hunger Lab
The multidisciplinary Zero Hunger Lab program works independently within Tilburg University to find solutions to the world hunger problem. Zero Hunger Lab received a startup grant in 2019 from Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM) and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Currently, our research team is supported by TiSEM, the Executive Board, a number of academic grants and several major donors.
Within the Zero Hunger Lab, more than 20 Tilburg University students/researchers are active.
Staff
Founders Zero Hunger Lab
- Prof. dr. ir. Hein Fleuren
- Perry Heijne
Professor
Assistant Professors
PhD Candidates
- Polle Dankers
- Julius Kaut
- Melissa Koenen
- Marieke Meeske
- Hezha Mohammedkhan
- Koen Peters
- Meike Reusken
- Franka Schellekens
- Valentijn Stienen
- Claire Tan
Researcher
- Hadi Abbaszadehpeivasti
- Cascha van Wanrooij
Master's students Zero Hunger Lab
- Ralitsa Andreeva
- Philipp Beirith
- Jochem Bruijninckx
- Thijmen Bruist
- Tianrui Chen
- Laurentiu Ciobotaru
- Lotte Croonen
- Mieke Couwenberg
- Polle Dankers
- Nina van Diermen
- Stefan Garritsen
- Romée Geelen
- Nick Grosveld
- Jan Hoogendoorn
- Marc van Iersel
- Geerlof Koolen
- Luka Kreisler
- Yigit Deniz Küçüközen
- Marieke de Leeuw
- Ikie Leunissen
- Rein Lommerse
- Francisco Fernando Lopez
- Eva McGiff
- Keith Murphy
- Rianne Meiberg
- Ton Pastoor
- Jaap Roelen
- Franka Schellekens
- Stephan Spanjaart
- Rein St. Nicolaas
- Jelle Sieben
- Gitte Snoeren
- Bob Suijkerbuijk
- Jesse Swinkels
- Sjoerd Swinkels
- Bernhard Toering
- Elisa Vink
Volunteer
- Eelke Bakker
- Diletta Gekas
- Suren Škardová
Projects
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Model OPTIMUS and its collaboration with World Food Programme
The UN approached Tilburg University with the challenge of optimizing the supply chain in crisis situations using data analytics.
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Child Growth Monitor
Tilburg University's Zero Hunger Lab was asked to develop the AI algorithm that measures body parameters, such as height, circumference, and weight from images. The algorithm can be included in the app to enable automatic detection of malnutrition in children all over the world.
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Project Enhance: Cost of Diet
How can we all be provided with food, especially in times of global distress or famine? Through AI and Big Data, the Zero Hunger Lab aims to answer these questions with Project ENHANCE.
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Fair and sustainable supply chain for sugar cane
Solidaridad asked the Zero Hunger Lab how they could use data to contribute as much as possible to the development of a fair and sustainable supply chain of sugar cane and palm oil.
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Under the radar
The organization of Dutch Food Banks requested Zero Hunger Lab to develop techniques to predict which people of are eligible for Food Bank support.
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