Surf is a Dutch company that enables universities, college education and research institutes to work together on groundbreaking ICT innovations. This enables the higher education and research to use the possibilities of ICT to improve the quality of education and research.

Surf selected Teezir to implement Expert Finding as innovative solution for finding experts among the higher education. To enable this, research publications were gathered from various universities and author information was supplied by the KNAW institute. As a direct result of the expert finding implementation, this author information is enriched by the people using the tool, thereby providing valuable information while making the expert finding solution better.