Thijs Wijnands

Thijs Wijnands (M'08) received the M.Sc. degree from the University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree from the Pierre & Marie Curie University (Paris VI), Paris, France, in 1996, both in experimental physics. He conducted his research at the Nuclear Research Center CEA-Cadarache in the field of nuclear fusion and tokamaks. In 1998, he joined CERN, the European Laboratory for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland, to work on the large electron–positron collider and, from 2001 onward, on the construction and commission of the large hadron collider. He is currently in charge of radiation safety at CERN.