Saskia Damen is Endowed Professor at the department of Pedagogical and Educational Sciences at the University of Groningen and Senior Researcher at the Kentalis Academy in the Netherlands. Her chair focuses on developing evidence-based assessment and intervention methods to foster development and learning of people with congenital and early acquired deafblindness and people with complex communication needs. She is responsible for the content of the curriculum of the Master Deafblindness at the University of Groningen. Within the department of Pedagogical and Educational Sciences she teaches on (dual)sensory loss and complex communication needs at pre-master, bachelor, master, and post-master level. She is editor of the Journal ‘Deafblind Studies on Communication’. She is deputy chair of the Deafblind International Research Network.