Executive Director LOFAR ERIC

LOFAR ERIC is the coordinating organisation to optimise the joint exploitation and to maximise the science output of the LOFAR facilities. The LOFAR ERIC founding membership includes 6 member countries (The Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Germany, Ireland and Bulgaria) and bilateral arrangements with research bodies in the UK, Sweden, France and Latvia. The vision of LOFAR ERIC is to ensure that LOFAR remains the world's most powerful very-low-frequency and long-baseline radio interferometer, to serve the needs of the European research community, and to bring the community together to maximise the scientific output from the powerful and versatile LOFAR infrastructure. Through this, LOFAR ERIC aims to provide hands-on scientific and technical skills and knowledge that will enable European researchers to establish and maintain global leadership positions in radio astronomy.

Currently, the International LOFAR Telescope is being upgraded to LOFAR2.0, enabling even greater scientific capability and opportunity for a growing international radio astronomy user community. LOFAR also provides a platform for conducting research in other science disciplines, such as the study of lightning, the ionosphere, and Space Weather. As such, LOFAR attracts a very broad user community from a wide range of countries.

LOFAR ERIC has its statutory seat in Dwingeloo, the Netherlands, and is hosted by ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, part of the institutes organization of the Dutch Research Council (NWO-I).

LOFAR ERIC strives to be an attractive workplace for all individuals irrespective of their background. Offering a safe and vibrant workplace is an important topic for our group management. We work alongside experts from various fields in a culture of mutual support. This creates an inspirational environment for LOFAR ERIC, where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive and grow. We are committed to decreasing our organisational footprint – in particular we are exploring circular and green computing solutions.

Information on the LOFAR ERIC and ASTRON can be found at: https://www.lofar.eu/ and http://www.astron.nl.