Jean in ’t Zand
Jean is a staff member of the High Energy Astrophysics group at SRON, focusing on science and instrument development. The science focuses on accretion processes around neutron stars and black holes, thermonuclear shell flashes on neutron stars and using them as diagnostics for rare nuclear reactions and the densest matter in the visible universe. The instrument development concerns the development of coded aperture imaging for wide field X-ray camera applications (e.g., Mir-Kvant, BeppoSAX, LOFT, eXTP, STROBE-X) and the development of large low-noise photo diodes for the space-borne gravitational wave observatory LISA. Other experience involves proposal writing for observations and funding, university teaching, supervision of (PhD) students, refereeing, reviewing, editorship personnel magazine and organizing conferences.