About
Education:
Professional career:
Research:
High Energy Astrophysics and development of Space Instruments:
Involved in pioneering experiments in X-ray Astronomy on high altitude balloons and sounding rockets in the nineteen sixties and seventies.
Leading role in EXOSAT (low energy X-ray telescopes), BeppoSAX (program scientist for the Netherlands), Chandra (Transmission Grating X-ray Spectrometer)
and XMM Newton (ESA selected mission scientist). Co-initiator of the next generation of X-ray Observatories in Europe: XEUS(IXO),
resulted eventually in selection of ATHENA as the ESA L2 mission.
Publications: ~ 150 articles in refereed scientific journals,
(Co)-editor of 2 review books: X-ray Spectroscopy in Astrophysics (Springer 1999),
The Century of Space Science (2 volumes, Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001).
My Projects
Distinctions
Academies/Learned Societies:
Royal award
- Commander Order of the Netherlands Lion 2002
