Jos Engelen

Infobox Scientist


image_width = 150px
name = Jos Engelen
birth_date = birth date and age|1950|7|6
birth_place = The Netherlands
residence =
nationality = Dutch
death_date =
death_place =
field = High Energy Physics
erdos_number =
work_institution = CERN, NIKHEF
alma_mater = Radboud University Nijmegen
doctoral_advisor = Wolfram Kittel
doctoral_students =
known_for =
societies =
prizes =
spouse = Marlein Hendrickx
children = Marc, Roel and Benne
religion =
handedness =
website = http://engelen.web.cern.ch/engelen/
footnotes =

Jos Engelen (born 1950, Maasniel) is a Dutch physicist.

Professor Engelen obtained his PhD in 1979 with Professor Wolfram Kittel at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (now known as the Radboud University Nijmegen). He was appointed professor of Experimental High-Energy Particle Physics at the University of Amsterdam in 1987. Between 2001 and 2003 he was director of NIKHEF (National Institute for Nuclear and High Energy Physics, based in Amsterdam). In January 2004 he became Chief Scientific Officer (on leave from NIKHEF) of CERN, Geneva. In January 2009, Engelen will become chairman of the Dutch organisation for scientific research NWO.

External links

* [http://engelen.web.cern.ch/engelen Homepage of Jos Engelen]
* [http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/ Homepage of the Large Hadron Collider]
* [http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/lectures/Abstracts/JosEngelen.htm Short bio]