{"id":7701,"date":"2019-12-06T07:43:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T07:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/website.prod.unilu.spikeseed.cloud\/en\/news\/prof-van-dam-steps-down-as-vice-rector-to-focus-on-research\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T07:43:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T07:43:08","slug":"prof-van-dam-steps-down-as-vice-rector-to-focus-on-research","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/news\/prof-van-dam-steps-down-as-vice-rector-to-focus-on-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. van Dam steps down as Vice-Rector to focus on research"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\"><p>The University of Luxembourg announces that Prof. Tonie van Dam has tendered her resignation as Vice-Rector for strategic projects to focus on her research activities in her fields of excellence of Geophysics and space-based Earth observation.<\/p><p>Prof. van Dam\u00a0will also continue to contribute to the University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwen.uni.lu\/formations\/fstm\/interdisciplinary_space_master\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Interdisciplinary Space Master<\/a>, launched earlier this year. Prof. van Dam will be based at the University\u2019s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security and Trust (SnT), from January 2020.<\/p><p>Prof. van Dam was appointed Vice-Rector for Doctoral Education and Training, International Relations and Gender in 2017. Since 2018 she was Vice-Rector for strategic projects.<\/p><p>\u201cI thank Prof. Tonie Van Dam for her energy and the commitment that she invested to help the University of Luxembourg move forward on the path of excellence,\u201d says Prof. St\u00e9phane Pallage, Rector of the University of Luxembourg. \u201cIn her function as Vice-Rector, as well as in her previous missions, Tonie has worked tirelessly on behalf of students and staff. I would like to thank her in particular for the outstanding way she led the development and launch of our Interdisciplinary Space Master programme. I wish Tonie all the best for this next step in her career.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cI am thankful for the opportunity to have contributed to the development of the University of Luxembourg as Vice-Rector, and I am proud of what was achieved\u201d, states Prof. Tonie van Dam. \u201cI feel I can bring a similarly valuable contribution to consolidate and build the University\u2019s claim to excellence by increasing the focus on my research work in the future. I am thrilled to be able to find more time to develop my research in space-related topics.\u201d<\/p><p>Prof. Tonie van Dam holds a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Colorado, USA, and is a recognised authority in the field of theoretical geophysics, satellite observations of the Earth, cryospheric mass change, and the global water cycle. She was awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwen.uni.lu\/universite\/actualites\/latest_news\/la_medaille_vening_meinesz_decernee_a_tonie_van_dam\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Vening Meinesz Medal<\/a> by the European Geosciences Union in 2019, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwen.uni.lu\/universite\/actualites\/latest_news\/grand_prix_2017_de_l_institut_grand_ducal\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Grand Prix 2017 in Geological Sciences<\/a> from the Institut Grand-Ducal in Luxembourg.\u00a0 She is a member of the American Geophysical Union and of the European Geophysical Society.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"university-of-luxembourg\"\n    >\n\u00a9 University of Luxembourg<\/h5>\n<\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Luxembourg announces that Prof. Tonie van Dam has tendered her resignation as Vice-Rector for strategic projects to focus on her research activities in her fields of excellence of Geophysics and space-based Earth observation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7702,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":[],"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"news-category":[10],"news-topic":[],"organisation":[233],"authorship":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - 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