Ralph Wijers#
| Membership Number: | 4674 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://api.uva.nl/profile/w/i/r.a.m.j.wijers/r.a.m.j.wijers.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present Director, Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam
- 2017 - present Adjunct Professor,George Washington University, Washington D.C.
- 2002 - present Professor of High-energy Astrophysics, University of Amsterdam
- 2002 - 2007 Adjunct Professor, Stonybrook University, USA
- 1998 - 2002 Assistant Professor, Stonybrook University,USA
- 1997 - 1998 Senior Research Associate, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University (UK) (on 5-year Royal Society Fellowship)
- 1994 - 1997 Research Associate, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University (UK) (on 5-year Royal Society Fellowship)
- 1991 - 1994 Research Associate, Princeton University (with NASA Compton Fellowship), USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Relativistic astrophysics
- Astroparticle physics
- Gamma-Ray astronomy
- High-Energy astrophysics
- X-ray astronomy
- Stellar evolution
- Physics of neutron stars and black holes
- Astrophysics
- Radio astronomy
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Invited participant and invited speaker at 26th Solvay Conference on Physics: “Astrophysics and Cosmology”, Brussels
- 2010 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant (3.5 MEuro), for developing LOFAR transient detection techniques
- 2004 VICI Grant (most prestigious grant of the Netherlands Research Council NWO; 5 years funding to build a team; 1.5 MEuro)
- 2003 Member, International Astronomical Union (elected)
- 2002 EU Descartes Prize (500 000,- Euro) for the GRACE collaboration for GRB optical observations co-led by Wijers and J. Hjorth
- 1997 Royal Society Fellowship (5 years research funding at Cambridge University, UK)
- 1991 NASA Compton Fellowship (prestigious 3 years postdoctoral position, used at Princeton University)
