Lex Kaper#
| Membership Number: | 5308 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8025-8981 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 Vice Dean & Director of Education, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam (3 year appointment)
- 2019 Full professor Observational Astrophysics and Instrument Development, University of Amsterdam
- 2007 2019 Associate professor Astrophysics (tenured), University of Amsterdam
- 2005 Adjunct full professor of Astronomy (1 day a week), Free University, Amsterdam
- 2003 - 2007 Assistant Professor Astrophysics (tenured), University of Amsterdam
- 1998 - 2003 Royal Academy Fellow, University of Amsterdam
- 1996 - 1998 ESO Senior Fellow, European Southern Observatory, Germany
- 1994 - 1996 ESO Fellow, European Southern Observatory, Germany
- 1989 - 1993 Ph.D. student (funded by national research council NWO), University of Amsterdam
Fields of Scholarship
- Physics, formation and evolution of massive stars
- Studies of massive X-ray binaries
- Physics of Gamma-Ray Bursts and Gravitational Wave sources
- Instrument development for large telescopes, ground-based and in space
Honours and Awards
- 29 Sept. 1993 Summa Cum Laude Ph.D. in Astronomy, Univ. of Amsterdam
- 1998 - 2003 Royal Academy Fellow of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (700 000,00 DFl= 318 000,00 EU)
- 2002 - 2006 Awarded 2,544 Million Euro from different sources as contribution for building X-Shooter spectrograph for ESO’s Very Large Telescope, Chile
- 2014 Awarded 1,3 Million Euro from NOVA (Netherlands) as contribution for building MOSAIC instrument for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope in Chile
- 2019 Descartes-Huygens Prize of the Académie Francaise & the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, awarded in Paris (February 5, 2019)
