Niek Lopes Cardozo appointed new Chair of the FOM Board of Governors

8 September 2009
The FOM Board of Governors has appointed Professor Niek Lopes Cardozo as the new Chairman of the Board of Governors and of the Executive Board of FOM. In addition, the Governing Board of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has appointed Lopes Cardozo as member and Chair of the Subfield of Physics. Lopes Cardozo will begin on 1 February 2010 and succeeds the current Chairman of the Board of Governors, Executive Board and Subfield of Physics, Professor Ronald Griessen.

Since May 2009, Lopes Cardozo has been the holder of the new Chair in Science and Technology of Nuclear Fusion at Eindhoven University of Technology, where he was appointed part-time professor in 1994. Until recently, he was Head of the Department of Fusion Physics at the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen, where he was in charge of Dutch research in the field of nuclear fusion, which is part of the Euratom-coordinated European fusion research programme.

Lopes Cardozo represents Dutch fusion research on the top-level management committees of the European Fusion Programme and he is currently Vice Chair of the Governing Board of the European Domestic Agency for ITER, Fusion for Energy (based in Barcelona). He is co-initiator of ITER-NL, the Dutch consortium of knowledge institutions TNO, FOM and NRG, which actively works to achieve strong Dutch participation in the international ITER project through building bridges between the researchers and the Dutch high-tech industry that will contribute to the construction of ITER.
 

Professor Niek Lopes Cardozo is the new Chairman of the Board of Governors and of the Executive Board of FOM
Photo: Ernst Bode