!!!Ralph Wijers \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='Wijers_Ralph_small.jpg' alt='Ralph Wijers' height='200'}] %% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\%%(margin-left:23px;) %% \\ \\ __Present and Previous Positions__ * 2011 - present Director, Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam * 2017 - present Adjunct Professor,George Washington University, Washington D.C. * 2002 - present Professor of High-energy Astrophysics, University of Amsterdam * 2002 - 2007 Adjunct Professor, Stonybrook University, USA * 1998 - 2002 Assistant Professor, Stonybrook University,USA * 1997 - 1998 Senior Research Associate, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University (UK) (on 5-year Royal Society Fellowship) * 1994 - 1997 Research Associate, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University (UK) (on 5-year Royal Society Fellowship) * 1991 - 1994 Research Associate, Princeton University (with NASA Compton Fellowship), USA \\ __Fields of Scholarship__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __Honours and Awards__ * 2014 Invited participant and invited speaker at 26th Solvay Conference on Physics: “Astrophysics and Cosmology”, Brussels * 2010 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant (3.5 MEuro), for developing LOFAR transient detection techniques * 2004 VICI Grant (most prestigious grant of the Netherlands Research Council NWO; 5 years funding to build a team; 1.5 MEuro) * 2003 Member, International Astronomical Union (elected) * 2002 EU Descartes Prize (500 000,- Euro) for the GRACE collaboration for GRB optical observations co-led by Wijers and J. Hjorth * 1997 Royal Society Fellowship (5 years research funding at Cambridge University, UK) * 1991 NASA Compton Fellowship (prestigious 3 years postdoctoral position, used at Princeton University) \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/Wijers_Ralph/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/Wijers_Ralph/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Wijers_Ralph/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Other information|User/Wijers_Ralph/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}] [{ALLOW edit rwijers}] [{ALLOW upload rwijers}] [{ALLOW comment All}]