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An older man with gray hair and glasses smiles while standing outside in a city street, wearing a navy suit and light blue shirt.
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Robbert Dijkgraaf is a distinguished mathematical physicist and academic leader who recently served as minister of education, culture and science of the Netherlands. He was the director and Leon Levy professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and a distinguished university professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Amsterdam. Dijkgraaf’s research focuses mainly on the interface between theoretical particle physics and mathematics.

He is an experienced public policy adviser, having served as president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the InterAcademy Partnership, the global alliance of science academies. Dijkgraaf is a passionate advocate for science. Many of his activities — including frequent television lectures, newspaper columns, books for general audiences, and a science education website for children — are at the interface between science and society.

Dijkgraaf is also a member of the Science, Society & Culture Advisory Board.

Photo credit: Gabi Porter, Institute for Advanced Study