Prof. Dr. Jos Engelen

Jos Engelen has been chairman of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the principal national funding body for scientific and scholarly research, since 2009.

Jos Engelen is Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Amsterdam. From 2001 to 2003 he was director of Nikhef and in 2004 he became scientific director and deputy director-general of CERN, where he was involved in the construction and initial operation phase of the new Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator.