Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens is professor Transformative Academic Education and director of Education at the Erasmus School of Philosophy, Rotterdam, Netherlands and professors Transdisciplinary Education Innovation at Codarts Rotterdam University for performing arts. She was several awards: the 1997 EUR Teacher of the Year Award; Comenius Leader Fellowship; Erasmus-plus Strategic Partnership; and ESE Impact Award for public academic activities . She is highly involved with the Rotterdam Arts & Sciences Lab (RASL), a collaboration between Erasmus University Rotterdam, Codarts University of Performing Arts and Willem de Kooning Academie Hogescholen Rotterdam that has the set-up a Double Degree programme. She is chair of Fame (the Female Academics Movement at EUR), and a member of the Council for Public Health and Society (the RVS), she links academic teaching and research to a wider social agenda.