prof. dr. L.V.E. (Léon) Koopmans

1991-1995: BSc+MSc Astronomy, University of Groningen

1995-2000: PhD (Cum Laude), University of Groningen

2000 (Apr.-Aug.): CERES Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Manchester, UK

2000-2002: Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, US

2002-2004: Visiting Fellow, California Institute of Technology, US

2002-2004: STScI Institute Fellow, Baltimore, US

2004-2009: Assistant Professor, Kapteyn Institute/University of Groningen

2009-2015: Associate Professor, Kapteyn Institute/University of Groningen

2015-now:  Full Professor, Kapteyn Institute/University of Groningen

2020-now: Scientific Director of the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute

Major personal awards/fellowship:

2002: Cambridge Fellowship (declined), STScI Institute Fellowship (accepted)

2005: VIDI career award for research on gravitational lensing

2010: ERC career award for research on reionization

2014: VICI career award for research on gravitational lensing  

2020: ERC Advanced grant for 21-cm Cosmology

H-index/Citations: H=100, C=35,000 (exactly; May 27, 2024; Google Scholar)

Major grants as (co-)PI:

2005: NWO, 200kE; 2005: NWO-VIDI, 600kE; 2008: NOVA: 100kE ; 2009: NWO-m: 600kE; 2010: ERC, 1500kE; 2012: NOVA, 200kE; 2013: NWO, 250kE; 2014: NWO-VICI, 1500kE; 2014: NWO-Roadmap, 570kE; 2016: DSSC, 200kE; NWO-NRF exchange grant: 60KE; 2020: ERC advanced, 3.5ME; ENW-XL: 600K; ENW-M2: 300kE