Stanislaus Cornelius Maria (Stan) Bentvelsen (

Schipluiden Schipluiden is a village in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It is the seat of the council of the municipality of Midden-Delfland. The village was founded relatively late in the 15th century and evolved around the Kee ...

, 6 May 1965) is a Dutch physicist. He is the director of

Nikhef Nikhef is the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics that performs research in particle physics and astroparticle physics. Amongst others, it is a research partner of the CERN institute in Switzerland and a member of the European Gravitat ...

since 2014. Bentvelsen studied Physics at the

Universiteit van Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other bein ...

(UvA). In 1994 he completed his thesis at the UvA in 1994 From 1994 to 2000 he was a researcher at the CERN in

Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situ ...

. From 2000 to 2005 Bentvelsen worked at the

(the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics that performs research in particle physics and astroparticle physics). Since 2005 he teaches at the

. Since 2014 he is the director of the

. He succeeded professo
Frank Linde
on December 1, 2014.

References

External links

KNAW: Stan Bentvelsen

Nikhef: Stan Bentvelsen

Living people 1965 births 21st-century Dutch physicists {{physicist-stub People associated with CERN