!!!Lex Kaper \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='Kaper_Lex_small.jpg' alt='Lex Kaper' height='220'}] %% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\ \\ \\ __Present and Previous Positions__ * 2019 Vice Dean & Director of Education, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam (3 year appointment) * 2019 Full professor Observational Astrophysics and Instrument Development, University of Amsterdam * 2007 2019 Associate professor Astrophysics (tenured), University of Amsterdam * 2005 Adjunct full professor of Astronomy (1 day a week), Free University, Amsterdam * 2003 - 2007 Assistant Professor Astrophysics (tenured), University of Amsterdam * 1998 - 2003 Royal Academy Fellow, University of Amsterdam * 1996 - 1998 ESO Senior Fellow, European Southern Observatory, Germany * 1994 - 1996 ESO Fellow, European Southern Observatory, Germany * 1989 - 1993 Ph.D. student (funded by national research council NWO), University of Amsterdam \\ __Fields of Scholarship__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __Honours and Awards__ *29 Sept. 1993 Summa Cum Laude Ph.D. in Astronomy, Univ. of Amsterdam *1998 - 2003 Royal Academy Fellow of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (700 000,00 DFl= 318 000,00 EU) *2002 - 2006 Awarded 2,544 Million Euro from different sources as contribution for building X-Shooter spectrograph for ESO’s Very Large Telescope, Chile *2014 Awarded 1,3 Million Euro from NOVA (Netherlands) as contribution for building MOSAIC instrument for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope in Chile *2019 Descartes-Huygens Prize of the Académie Francaise & the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, awarded in Paris (February 5, 2019) \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/Kaper_Lex/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/Kaper_Lex/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Kaper_Lex/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Other information|User/Kaper_Lex/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}] [{ALLOW edit lkaper}] [{ALLOW upload lkaper}] [{ALLOW comment All}]