!!!Ralph Wijers
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__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
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__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)
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[Curriculum Vitae |User/Wijers_Ralph/CV]
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[Publication list|User/Wijers_Ralph/Publications]
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[Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Wijers_Ralph/Highlight]
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