Johan Knapen’s CV
 
Current employment:
  1.  Staff astronomer, IAC, Tenerife
 
Past employment:
  1.  2011-2015: Head of the Research Division, IAC, Tenerife
  2.  1996-2006: Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, then Reader, and finally Professor of Astronomy, University of Hertfordshire, UK
  3.  2000-2002: On leave as Staff Astronomer, Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma
  4.  1994-1996: Postdoc, Université de Montréal, Québec
  5.  1992-1994: Postdoc, IAC, Tenerife
 
Education:
  1.  1989-1992: PhD in Astrophysics, University of La Laguna, Tenerife (Supervisors: Professor John Beckman and Professor Piet van der Kruit)
  2.  1983-1989: Degree in Astronomy, University of Groningen
 
Professional Activity:
  1.  Coordinator and PI, EU-funded ITN DAGAL (Initial Training Network, Detailed Anatomy of GALaxies)
  2.  Adjunct Scientific Director, IAC Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence
  3.  Member representative for IAC on AURA
  4.  Member, ING Board (Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes) (Chair since June 2015)
  5.  Member, WEAVE Project Board
  6.  Member, EAS Council (European Astronomical Society)
  7.  Member, FINCA Science Advisory Board (Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO)
  8.  Member, Science Advisory Committee, S4G
  9.  Member, GTC Oversight Committee (Gran Telescopio Canarias)
  10.  Member, MINECO working group on scientific excellence in Horizon 2020
  11.  Chair, IAC Research Committee
  12.  Member, IAC Management Committee
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