Jeroen van den Brink appointed Physics and Astronomy Visting Professor

Jeroen van den Brink. Photo; UvA - In the context of the Visiting Professorship programme of the institutes of Physics and Astronomy of the UvA and the VU, Prof. Jeroen van den Brink is visiting Amsterdam for four months starting January 2020. Prof. van den Brink will also hold the Johannes Diderik van der Waals rotating chair established at the UvA. Jeroen van den Brink is director at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research in Dresden and professor of theoretical physics at the TU Dresden. Career and awards. Van den Brink studied physics and obtained his PhD at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and continued his career as postdoc and Humboldt Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart, Germany. In 1999 he became tenured Associate Professor at the University of Twente.