Margriet van Schijndel

Vice-Chair from the automotive research providers, nominated by EARPA.

Margriet van Schijndel-de Nooij is Program Manager Responsible Mobility at Eindhoven University of Technology, since 2019. Within the university, she is based at EAISI (Eindhoven AI Systems Institute). Margriet works across all nine departments of the university, aiming at multidisciplinary mobility research with impact. The research program Responsible Mobility addresses societal challenges regarding sustainable, inclusive, safe and efficient transport; exactly what Margriet believes is essential for the future of our mobility system and for e.g. the livability of cities.

Margriet is a mechanical engineer from Eindhoven University of Technology (M.Sc.) and started her career at the Dutch research institute TNO. She coordinated several European-funded mobility projects. She was the Secretary General of the European Automotive Research Partners Association (EARPA) from 2013 to 2020. Right afterwards, she took the lead of EARPA’s Foresight Group on Connectivity, Automation and Safety, and since 2024, she’s been an EARPA Board member.

Since 2021, Margriet is Executive Board Member of the CCAM Partnership, leading Cluster 5 on Key enabling Technologies. Since 2022, she has been a member of the Delegation to the Partnership Board, 2Zero Partnership on zero emission road mobility. Furthermore, within ADRA, Margriet leads the Topic Group on Mobility & Smart Urban Spaces and co-leads the ERTRAC WG Digitalisation.