Jan-Theodoor Janssen | |
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Born | Theodorus Johannes Bernardus Maria Janssen 1965 (age 58–59) Netherlands |
Alma mater | University of Nijmegen (1993) |
Awards | James Joule Medal and Prize (2023) |
Scientific career | |
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Institutions | National Physical Laboratory (1998 – ) University of Bristol |
Thesis | Far-infrared magneto-optics of low-dimensional semiconductor structures and organic conductors (1994) |
Website | www |
Theodorus Johannes Bernardus Maria Janssen FREng FInstP FIET (born 1965), [1] also known as Jan-Theodoor Janssen or JT Janssen, is the Chief Scientist of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom), [2] [3] Henry Royce Institute's Strategic Advisory Board (SAB) Chair since 2024, [4] and President of the Consultative Committee for Ionizing Radiation (CCRI) since 2023. [5] In 2023, he was awarded the Institute of Physics's James Joule Medal and Prize for "outstanding contributions to fundamental and practical quantum electrical metrology". [6] He was elected a Fellow of the National Physical Laboratory in Quantum Electrical Metrology, [2] Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), [7] and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2021. [8]
Born in the Netherlands, [9] Janssen obtained a doctor of philosophy from the University of Nijmegen in 1993, [10] before joining the University of Bristol as a research fellow and then moving to NPL in 1998. [11] He is a visiting professor at the Lancaster University. [2]
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