Wim van Saarloos

Wim van Saarloos is a Dutch physicist, academic and researcher. He is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Leiden University (emeritus since July 2021)

Van Saarloos has written over 280 papers and has been cited over 12000 times. His research interests include Statistical Physics, non-equilibrium pattern formation and soft condensed matter physics. He has also done work on front propagation into unstable states.

Van Saarloos was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2007 and received various honors and awards for his research. For founding the Lorentz Center in Leiden, and for bringing the center to fruition as the first director from 1997 to 2009, he received a royal distinction. Since 2009 he has been mostly active promoting science and strengthening the Dutch science system, and on the European level. He was the chair of the Energy Steering Panel of the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC), of which he serves as president from 2023-2025. He also presided the Permanent Committee National Institutes of NWO and Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Earlier, he served as a member of the strategic advisory board of the EU Flagship Quantum Technology, and the High Level Strategy Group on Industrial Technologies. He is presently a member of the Board of Trustees of Scence about Science and the Supervisory Board of the University of Groningen. Provided by Wikipedia