Director Nikhef (m/f/x)

Nikhef is the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics. The institute performs research into the elementary building blocks of our Universe, their mutual forces and the structure of space and time. Nikhef is a partnership between the Institutes Organization of the Dutch national funding agency (NWO-I) and six universities: Maastricht University, Radboud University, University of Amsterdam, University of Groningen, Utrecht University, and VU Amsterdam.

External contacts

Nikhef collaborates in many different ways, both nationally and internationally: Nikhef coordinates the Dutch activities in the area of subatomic physics, for which purpose it has created the Nikhef partnership. Internationally, Nikhef is a partner in a number of large-scale experiments in the area of particle and astroparticle physics. Besides pure science, Nikhef has a range of ways to work with Dutch industry and start-ups. The mission of Nikhef underlines the importance of knowledge and technology transfer of the innovative technologies that have been developed, to other parties such as industry, civil society and the general public. This results in Nikhef having a number of partners in the area of innovation in instrumentation, technology and computing.

The Nikhef partnership is strongly involved in the ALICE, ATLAS and LHCb experiments at CERN, the KM3NeT neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean, the Virgo gravitational waves interferometer in Pisa, the Xenon-nT dark matter experiment in Gran Sasso, the Pierre Auger cosmic ray observatory in Argentina, and the eEDM research programme in Groningen. There are also scientific groups on Theory, Physics Data Processing and Detector R&D. Anticipating the future, Nikhef is involved in the possible realization of the Einstein Telescope research facility in the border region of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Nikhef has excellently equipped technical departments in mechanics, electronics and computing.

Internal contacts

Director NWO-I, Executive Board of NWO, Nikhef Board, Scientific Advisory Council, Management Team, NWO-I Directors, Institute manager, scientific and support staff and works council.