The Board of Governors of the University of Luxembourg has proposed to the government to appoint Professor Jens Kreisel as Vice-Rector of the institution.
Assuming office on 1 September 2018, German-born Professor Jens Kreisel will mainly be responsible for the areas of research and innovation.
Brought up in Dortmund, Jens Kreisel studied physics in Germany and France. In 1999, he obtained his PhD in materials science at the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble. He was then a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford before joining the “Centre national de la recherche scientifique” (CNRS) in Grenoble, where he was appointed Research Director in 2009. From 2008 to 2011, Professor Kreisel was deputy Vice President of international relations at Grenoble INP. He spent the academic year 2011/12 as a Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick before becoming Scientific Director of the Department of Materials Science at the Gabriel-Lippmann Public Research Centre, then he led the “Materials Research and Technology" (MRT) department at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). In 2013, he obtained a PEARL grant from the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). Since 2013, he has been an honorary professor at the University of Luxembourg and was appointed Adjunct Professor in May 2017.
Jens Kreisel lives in Luxembourg with his family and has thorough knowledge of Luxembourg and European research and his research interests concern the interface of physics and materials science.
The mandate of the current Vice-Rector for Research, Professor Ludwig Neyses, will end on 31 March 2018.
