Dr Jan-Theodoor Janssen
Chair | Strategic Advisory Board
Prof Jan-Theodoor (JT) Janssen is the Chief Scientist and International Director at The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) which he joined in 1998. Prior to this he was a research fellow at the University of Bristol and did his PhD and Masters at the High Field Magnetic Laboratory at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
At NPL, JT is responsible for the external scientific engagements with academia and other government organisations. Internally, he is responsible for the quality and benchmarking of the research outputs of the laboratory and its knowledge management. JT is the executive sponsor for NPL’s Juno committee, which aims to address gender equality in physics and to encourage better practice for all staff.
JT is a Scientific Co-Director of the Quantum Metrology Institute (QMI), which covers all of NPL’s leading-edge quantum science and metrology research and provides the expertise and facilities needed for academia and industry to test, validate and ultimately commercialise new quantum research and technologies.
At NPL, his research has involved a wide range of topics in solid-state physics applied to electrical metrology. Research for which he received the 2023 IOP James Joule Award.
JT is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Engineering and Technology and the Institute of Physics. In 2022, JT was elected to the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) at the 2022 General Conference for Weights and Measures and appointed the President of the Consultative Committee for Ionising Radiation (CCRI).
