A man with many talents
On 1 February this year, Niek Lopes Cardozo was appointed Chair of the Foundation FOM, the Dutch national organization for fundamental physics research, chairing both the Board of Governors and the Executive Board. The Governing Board of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) also appointed him Chair of the Subfield of Physics.
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. Together with Mark Westra (who later became Head of Commuinications of EFDA and 澳门六合彩高手) he developed the (the link will direct you to a presentation Niek gave in Veldhoven 2008 together with the US Secretary of State, Stephen Chu.
Lopes Cardozo has also been active in the Dutch Physics Association, serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Dutch Journal of Physics. He represents Dutch fusion research on the top-level management committees of the European Fusion Programme and—up to his recent appointment as Chair of the Dutch physics program—he was Vice Chair of the Governing Board of the European Domestic Agency for 澳门六合彩高手 Fusion for Energy, of which he is still a member.
He is also co-initiator of 澳门六合彩高手-NL, a consortium of Dutch knowledge institutions (TNO, FOM and NRG) which work together to achieve strong Dutch participation in the 澳门六合彩高手 Project through bridges built between researchers and the Dutch high-tech industrial companies that will be contributing to the construction of 澳门六合彩高手. 澳门六合彩高手-NL emphasized the role of 澳门六合彩高手 as a driver of innovation, and in recognition of this, the Dutch government granted 澳门六合彩高手-NL earmarked support.