Maarten de Rijke

Today, February 10, is International Epilepsy Day. This is an annual awareness-raising initiative organized around the planet. Let me take this opportunity to thank the 375 people and organizations who have generously donated to my daughter Emma’s collection box at EpilepsieNL to support research into epilepsy, to create awareness, and to support patients and their…

SIGIR 2025 will host a workshop to explore challenges in information retrieval development to help understand climate impact. This is the second edition of the workshop. The focus of this year’s edition of the workshop will be on climate adaptation tracking. Last year’s edition of this workshop focused on identifying the challenges of developing and…

EpilepsieNL, the organization for which we have set up Emma’s collection box, is preparing for new campaigns and fund raising initiatives. They have reset some of the counters as of today, February 5, 2025. Up to today, 368 people and organizations have generously contributed 21.515,17 Euro to Emma’s collection box to support research into epilepsy,…

Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad has published an article with some of my views on the AI innovation landscape in the Netherlands. It also mentions Emma’s passing, my research hopes and ambitions regarding AI and epilepsy, and Emma’s collection box for EpilepsieNL, to which over 350 people and organizations have now donated well over 21000…

Today would have been Emma’s 28th birthday. It’s been 59 days since she passed away. We continue to go through slow, slow goodbye rituals, for instance by marking every single one of her many books with her name before giving it away. We hold on to some of her belongings: I’m wearing her scarf, my…

This week, on January 18, there will be a remembrance party (“herdenkingsborrel”) organized by Emma’s friends to come together, connect, exchange memories and raise a glass to Emma’s memory and to help raise funds for the Epilepsy Foundation (“EpilepsieNL“) through Emma’s collection box. Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/r/cqvBzAzTK1. Please contribute at https://epilepsie.digicollect.nl/maarten-de-rijke and share the link. Thank you!…

It has been one month today since Emma passed away. It doesn’t feel like things are getting better. Every new day is worse than the previous. There’s a deepening sense of loss as the reality continues to sink in. We’ve adopted a lot of slow goodbye rituals. They help somewhat. But what really keeps us…

In just a week since we opened this appeal, over 200 people have donated over 8000 euro. Thank you so much for your generosity and support for this cause! Many of you contributed anonymously, so we are not able to thank you individually, but thank you so much for your donations. We really appreciate them….

Our online condolence book for Emma: https://www.uitvaartverzorgingmyosotis.nl/condoleance/24699 Please contribute at https://epilepsie.digicollect.nl/maarten-de-rijke and share the link. Thank you! Next post: Previous posts:

An in memoriam for Emma published by Leiden University, where she was a student enrolled in the MA Asian Studies program: In Memoriam: Emma de Rijke Please contribute at https://epilepsie.digicollect.nl/maarten-de-rijke and share the link. Thank you! Next post: Previous post: