The NWO Governing Board
The most senior administrative body within NWO is the Governing Board (AB, short for Algemeen Bestuur). The Board comprises a Chairman and four members, supported by the NWO Director General, who acts as Secretary to the Governing Board. The chairman and members of the Governing Board are appointed by the Crown for a period of five years, and may be reappointed once. The Chairman is a part-time employee of NWO.
Jos Engelen - Chairman
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Jos Engelen (1950) studied physics in Nijmegen. After graduating in 1973 he worked there as a researcher and lecturer, gaining his doctorate in 1979. From 1979 to 1985 Engelen worked at CERN, before accepting a position at Nikhef (National Institute for Subatomic Physics) in 1985. He became professor of Experimental Physics at Universiteit van Amsterdam in 1987. At CERN and DESY (Hamburg) he carried out experiments in the area of the strong interaction, hard photoproduction and dispersion in deep inelastic collisions. He also developed initiatives for research in the field of astroparticle physics.
From 2001 to 2003 Engelen was director of Nikhef and in 2004 he became the scientific director and acting director-general of CERN, a position he held until 2008. His responsibilities there included overseeing the construction and commissioning of the new LHC particle accelerator and the associated experimental set-ups. From 2007 to 2008 Engelen was chair of ASTRON, the NWO institute for radio astronomy. Press release appointment Jos Engelen
Contact Jos Engelen: Ms Anneke Eekhout, a.eekhout@nwo.nl
phone +31 (0)70 344 07 23, fax +31 (0)70 344 07 15
Ben de Kruijff
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Ben de Kruijff studied chemistry at Utrecht University and graduated with honor in 1970. He carried out Ph.D. research with Laurens van Deenen at Utrecht University and received his Ph.D. degree (with honours) in 1974 on the thesis Studies on the role of sterols in membranes. He subsequently did a post doc with George Radda at Oxford University on the application of 31P NMR to membrane phospholipids. From 1976 he became associate professor in the Institute of Molecular Biology at Utrecht University.
From 1979 - 1980 he was invited visiting professor at the Department of Biochemistry University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. In 1984 he was appointed as full professor in the Faculty of Science of Utrecht University. From 1988 onwards he occupied the chair 'Molecular biology of biomembranes' in the Faculty of Chemistry. He is author on 350 scientific articles, a selection of some recent ones is given below. More than 40 PhD students graduated under his supervision.
Contact Ben de Kruyff: Ms Els el Idrissi-Troost, e.elidrissi@nwo.nlphone +31 (0)70 344 07 02, fax +31 (0)70 344 07 15
Franciska de Jong
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Franciska de Jong has been full professor of language technology at the University of Twente since 1992. After graduating in Dutch language and literature in 1980, she gained her doctorate at the Faculty of Arts at Utrecht University. From 1985 to 1992 she carried out research into machine translation at Phillips Research in Eindhoven and from 1996 to 2007 she was an adviser at TNO. She is the initiator/coordinator of several scientific collaborative projects aimed at developing technology supporting the accessibility of multimedia archives. Press release appointment Franciska de Jong
Contact Franciska de Jong: Ms Els el Idrissi-Troost, e.elidrissi@nwo.nl
phone +31 (0)70 344 07 02, fax +31 (0)70 344 07 15
Cees Veerman
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Cees Veerman (1949) studied economy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (cum laude, 1973). He obtained his doctorate in 1983 in Wageningen. Veerman is professor of Sustainable Rural Development at Tilburg University and Wageningen University and Research Centre. Cees Veerman was the Dutch Minister for Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries from 2002 to 2007. Until July 2009 he chaired the meta-evaluation committee Quality Assurance in Scientific Research (NWO, KNAW, VSNU). Press release appointment Cees Veerman
Contact Cees Veerman: Ms Jet van 't Woudt, j.vantwoudt@nwo.nl
telephone: +31 (0)70 344 07 17, fax +31 (0)70 344 07 15
Marianne de Visser
Marianne de Visser (1950) has worked as a neurologist at the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam since 1987 and has been a professor of neuromuscular diseases at the University of Amsterdam since 1993. De Visser studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam and graduated in 1975. She has practised as a neurologist since 1979, and in 1981 she obtained her doctorate. From 1999 to 2009 she was a board member of the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw), part of NWO. Press release appointment Marianne de Visser
Contact Marianne de Visser: Ms Els el Idrissi-Troost, e.elidrissi@nwo.nl
telephone: +31 (0)70 344 07 02, fax +31 (0)70 344 07 15
Cees de Visser (Secretary Governing Board, Director General NWO)
Dr Cees de Visser, NWO Director General, acts as Secretary to the Governing Board.
