Gerard van der Steenhoven#
| Membership Number: | 6741 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2444-1356 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerard-van-der-steenhovenb76b5312 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - now Special Advisor of the Dutch Governement
- 2015 - now Professor by special appoinment at the University of Twente, ITC Faculty
- 2014 - 2023 Director General Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
- 2008 - 2014 Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology (TNW), University of Twente
- 2007 - 2013 President of the Netherlands Physical Society (NNV)
- 2004 - 2008 Program leader Astroparticle Physics, NIKHEF
- 2000 - 2008 Professor by special appointment at the University of Groningen
- 1996 - 2004 Program leader HERMES experiment (DESY), NIKHEF
- 1989 - 1996 Senior researcher at NIKHEF
- 1987 - 1989 Postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Fields of Scholarship
- Climate science
- Meteorology
- Earth observation
- Nuclear physics
- Astroparticle physics
- Satellite instrumentation
- High-energy physics
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Member of Merit, Netherlands Physical Society (NNV)
- 1988 Shell Travel Award for best PhD in the physical sciences in the Netherlands
