Niek Lopes Cardozo appointed new Chair of the FOM Governing Board
The FOM Governing Board has appointed Professor N.J. (Niek) Lopes Cardozo as the new Chairman of the Governing Board and of the Executive Board of FOM. In addition, the Governing Board of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has appointed Lopes Cardozo as member and Chair of the Subfield of Physics. Lopes Cardozo will begin on 1 February 2010 and succeeds the current Chairman of the Governing Board, Executive Board and Subfield of Physics, Professor R.P. (Ronald) Griessen.
Since May 2009, Lopes Cardozo has been the holder of the new Chair in Science and Technology of Nuclear Fusion at Eindhoven University of Technology, where he was appointed part-time professor in 1994. Until recently, he was Head of the Department of Fusion Physics at the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen, where he was in charge of Dutch research in the field of nuclear fusion, which is part of the Euratom-coordinated European fusion research programme.
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Niek Lopes Cardozo (1957) studied Experimental Physics at Utrecht University and obtained a PhD degree in the field of nuclear fusion. After a spell at JET, the world's largest fusion reactor, in Culham (near Oxford), he moved to FOM-Rijnhuizen to become group leader, and in 2001 he was appointed Head of the Department of Fusion Physics and Head of Research Unit Euratom FOM. His research was given a boost in the way of Pioneer Funding from NWO, and in 2003 he was awarded with the Royal Shell Prize for Sustainable Development and Energy.
As Professor at Eindhoven, Lopes Cardozo has supervised the PhD dissertations of some 20 young researchers. In addition to teaching and research, Lopes Cardozo has engaged in outreach, particularly to secondary school students, for whom he developed the Fusion Road Show. He has also been active in the Dutch Physics Association, serving as editor-in-chief of the Dutch Journal of Physics. Lopes Cardozo represents Dutch fusion research on the top-level management committees of the European Fusion Programme and he is currently Vice Chair of the Governing Board of the European Domestic Agency for ITER, Fusion for Energy (based in Barcelona). He is co-initiator of ITER-NL, the Dutch consortium of knowledge institutions TNO, FOM and NRG, which actively works to achieve strong Dutch participation in the international ITER project through building bridges between the researchers and the Dutch high-tech industry that will contribute to the construction of ITER.
Contact
Prof. Niek Lopes Cardozo, telephone (040) 247 50 08.
Gabby Zegers, Stichting FOM, telephone (030) 600 12 08.