Changes to the membership of the Governing Board and Executive Board of FOM
In the board meetings of Tuesday 13 December 2011, the Governing Board and the Executive Board of the FOM Foundation reached the decision to change the membership of both boards. This means that several members will retire from the boards, several will be reappointed and that new members will be appointed as well. This news release provides an overview of the changes.
The following board members will honourably retire from the board with effect from 31 December 2011. Prof. C. (Cees) Dekker will have completed his second and last 5-year term of office. Dr. C.M. (Tini) Hooymans, Dr. A.B.M. (Ton) Hoff and Prof. I.T. (Ted) Young will have completed their first 5-year term of office.
At the end of 2011, Prof. M.G.D. (Marc) Geers and Prof. R.J. (Rob) Hamer will also have completed their first term of office. Both board members will be reappointed to the Governing Board for a second 5-year term of office with effect from 1 January 2012.
As a consequence of the above-mentioned changes there is room for new Governing Board members. The following five new members will join the Governing Board of FOM with effect from 1 January 2012:
- P.A.O.G. (Paul) Korting, Chairman of the Board of Directors ECN
- Prof. L.P. (Leo) Kouwenhoven, Professor of Physics at Delft University of Technology
- Dr. M. (Margriet) Nip, Director Technical Tata Steel Products Mainland Europe
- Prof. J.M. (Jan) van Ruitenbeek, Professor of Experimental Physics at Leiden University
- Dr. E.-J. (Egbert-Jan) Sol, Director of Innovation High-Tech Systems & Materials TNO
Executive Board of FOM
The Executive Board of the FOM Foundation has five members. Earlier this year it had already been decided that with effect from 1 January 2012 Prof. N.H. (Nynke) Dekker would fill the vacancy that arises with the retirement from the board of vice-chair Prof. Carlo Beenakker (who therefore retires from the Governing Board of FOM as well). The December issue of FOM expres contains a farewell interview with Carlo Beenakker.
In the board meeting is was decided that Executive Board member Prof. D. (Detlef) Lohse will become vice-chair of the Governing Board and Executive Board of FOM with effect from 1 January 2012.
During the course of 2012 Dr. Th.J.H. (Dirk) Smit (per 1 March 2012) and Prof. Th.H.M. (Theo) Rasing (per 1 December 2012) will complete their 4-year terms of office. Both board members have stated their willingness to be reappointed for a second term of office and during the board meeting their reappointment to the Executive Board of FOM was officially confirmed.
FOM thanks the retiring board members for their services rendered.
FOM in brief
The Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) facilitates fundamental physics research in the Netherlands. FOM's activities benefit society in general and higher education and industry in particular. About 1040 people are employed by FOM: almost 90 tenured scientific members of staff, 160 postdocs, 430 PhDs and 360 technicians and support staff. The research takes place at three institutes and at 182 university workgroups spread across 11 Dutch universities. FOM employees produce about 60 PhD theses and 1100 scientific articles per year.
The FOM Foundation spends 91.8 million euros on investments in FOM activities and the exploitation of these. Most of FOM’s funding comes from the Division for Physics of NWO and the Governing Board of NWO. Additional funding is obtained from the European Union, the Dutch government and partnerships between universities and industry. The FOM Foundation was set up in 1946 and is part of NWO.