Prof. dr. Jos Engelen
Mr. Prof. J.J. (Jos) Engelen, distinguished research professor at the Faculty of Science since January 1, 2009
Prof. dr. J.J. (Jos) Engelen (1950) is professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Institute of Physics since 1987. In 2009 he was appointed distinguished research professor.
Jos Engelen is chairman of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), which is the national academic research funding organisation, and was vice-president of the former European association of the heads of research funding and research performing organisations, or EUROHORCs.
Engelen was previously director of Nikhef from 2001 until 2003, and in 2004 was named scientific director and deputy director-general of CERN. Among the projects he was involved in there were the construction and launch of the new Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator and experiments conducted with it.
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