Annette Kik

Full Name

Drs. A.C. Kik

Annette.Kik@cwi.nl

Phone

+31 20 592 4248

Room

L113

Department(s)

Communication

Function(s)

Communication advisor

Biography

Annette Kik is a communication advisor at CWI. From 2012-2022 she also was the manager of the W3C Benelux Office/Chapter. Annette has a background in experimental nuclear physics and science communication. From 2001-2005 she was a member of the Board of the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society (KWG), where she co-founded the 'Wiskunde Persdienst' (WPD) to promote mathematics in the media. Annette is the local Dutch editor of the European quarterly magazine ERCIM News, which has 11,000 readers: mathematicians, computer scientists and, for instance, EU policy makers - giving more visibility to maths and computer science research in the EU.

W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.1 translation kick-off meeting at CWI in May 2019.

In 2019, Annette contributed to the Dutch translation of the WCAG 2.1 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, in a team of over 20 organizations including the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, chaired by Eric Velleman from (at the time) Accessibility NL.

W3C AB at CWI, June 2019 — Happy that the W3C Benelux Office could be of help hosting a global W3C AB meeting at CWI in 2019. W3C CEO (at the time) Jeff Jaffe in the middle; second from right Wendy Seltzer from W3C (who also served on the board of the Tor project in the past).

CWI-director (at the time) Jos Baeten opened the CWI timeline in 2018 — CWI-director (at the time) Jos Baeten opened the CWI timeline that Annette wrote in 2018.

Annette wrote the CWI timeline, which can be found in front of the CWI Library. In November 2018 we celebrated 30 years of open Internet in Europe, and CWI director (at the time) Jos Baeten unveiled this timeline with CWI milestones, such as Guido van Rossum developing Python here. Proud of CWI! The tweet about this timeline had over 194k views.

At the first Dijkstra Fellowship event, with Python designer Guido van Rossum, 'forefather of blockchain' cryptology researcher David Chaum, Lynda Hardman and our Communication department. — At the first Dijkstra Fellowship event, with Python designer Guido van Rossum, 'forefather of blockchain' cryptology researcher David Chaum, Lynda Hardman and our Communication department at the time: Marije Huiskes, Annette Kik, Daniëlle Kollerie and Aschwin Tenfelde.

Alexander Rinnooy Kan, science journalist Bennie Mols and Annette Kik at the Dijkstra Fellowship meeting in 2019. — Great to be able to meet so many people via CWI. With Alexander Rinnooy Kan and science journalist Bennie Mols at the Dijkstra Fellowship meeting in 2019.

Always very happyNRC interview by Dorine Schenk with 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Prize winners Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard. (Picture: A. Kik.) — NRC journalist Dorine Schenk interviewing two of the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Prize winners, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, at CWI in November 2022, with QuSoft director Harry Buhrman on the right. (Picture: A.C. Kik.)

Always very happy to welcome journalists at CWI for interviews, like here NRC journalist Dorine Schenk, together with QuSoft's Yvonne Smit. On the picture Dorine interviews two of the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Prize winners: Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, with QuSoft director Harry Buhrman sitting on the right. Bennett and Brassard received the prize together with David Deutsch and Peter Shor (from the famous Shor's algorithm) for their foundational work in quantum information, like quantum teleportation. Later, Deutsch and Shor retweeted our tweet on a QuSoft celebration event at CWI. Fantastic to be able to contact those 'scientific heroes' directly, at CWI, and also the media. (Picture: A.C. Kik, November 2022.)

Below some scientific and semi-popular articles that can be found in the CWI repository (more popular texts can be found on our website).

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