Cisca Wijmenga, the first female rector of the University of Groningen (2019-2023), has been appointed as the new chair of the Permanent Committee on Large-Scale Scientific Infrastructure (PC-GWI). This decision was made by the board of directors of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
Wijmenga is a professor of human genetics at the University of Groningen and the University Medical Centre Groningen. In 2015, she was awarded a Spinoza Prize, also known as the Dutch Nobel Prize.