Distinctions
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1988 Master thesis in Astrophysics (with highest honor) at University of Leiden (the Netherlands). Thesis : Entropy in Elliptical Galaxies,supervised by Vincent Icke.
- 1992 Ph.D. Thesis in Physics and Astrophysics (with highest honor) at University of Amsterdam and FOM (the Netherlands). Thesis : Multiple Scattering and Localization of Light, supervised by Ad Lagendijk and Adriaan Tip,
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1994 Andries Miedema Prize of Fundamental Research on Matter, for best Dutch thesis in Condensed Matter Physics.
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2002 Prix Anatole et Suzanne Abragam, Académie des Sciences (France).
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2004 Prix Langevin de la Société Française de Physique
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2004 Fellow of the Institute of Physics