Sijbrand de Jong#
Membership Number: | 4177 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2016 |
Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Homepage(s): | http://www.ru.nl/highenergyphysics |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present Programme Leader of Dutch Cosmic-Ray Group in Pierre Auger Collaboration
- 2011 - 2015 Founding director Radboud Pre-University College of Science, Radboud University
- 2005 - 2011 Founding director Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Radboud University
- 2000 - 2003 Director of School of Physics and Astronomy, Vice-Chair of Physics Department, Radboud University
- 1998 - present Professor of Experimental Physics, Radboud University Nijmegen
- 1998 - present, Staff member, Nikhef
- 1998 - 2012 visiting scientist, FNAL and Programme Leader of Dutch group in Dzero collaboration
- 1994 - 1998 Tenured Associate Scientist, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
- 1992 - 1994 Research Associate, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
- 1990 - 1992 Fellow, CERN
Fields of Scholarship
- Physics outreach
- Elementary particle physics
- Experimental physics
- Astroparticle physics
- Physics education
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Elected Member of Merit of the Dutch Physics Society
- 2015 Elected President of the CERN Council
- 2015 Knighthood in the Order of the Netherlands Lion
- 2010 Nijmegen Citizen of the year
- 2009 Academic Year Prize (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)