Ignas Snellen#
| Membership Number: | 7474 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/ignas-snellen#tab-1 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1624-3667 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ignas-snellen-6904b427/ |
| Publication Link: | https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/fq=%7B!type%3Daqp%20v%3D%24fq_database%7D&fq_database=database%3A%20astronomy&p_=0&q=author%3A(%22snellen%2C%20I.%22)&sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present Professor in Astronomy, Leiden University, NL
- 2022 - present Scientific Director Leiden Observatory, NL
- 2009 - 2012 Associate Professor in Astronomy, Leiden University, NL
- 2004 - 2009 Assistant Professor in Astronomy, Leiden University, NL
- 2000 - 2004 University Lecturer in Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 1997 - 2000 Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Atmospheric characterization of extrasolar planets
- High-resolution spectroscopy
Honours and Awards
- 2022 NWO Spinoza Prize (2.5 MEuro)
- Elected member – Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW)
- Elected member – The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- Hans Sigrist Prize of the University of Bern, Switzerland
- Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (2.3 MEuro)
- VICI Grant of the Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO; 1.5 MEuro)
