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Senior instrument scientist at the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and full professor in experimental astronomy within the THz sensing group at Delft University of Technology.

Jochem Baselmans (1974) graduated in 1998 on at the University of Groningen and received his PhD (summa cum laude) at the University of Groningen in 2002 studying the superconducting state in normal metal Josephson junctions. He started in 2002 as post-doctoral Instrument Scientist at SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research where he has worked until 2004 on Hot Electron Bolometer mixers. Since then, he leads the Dutch effort on Kinetic Inductance Detectors. He pioneered the concept of the on-chip spectrometer for far-infrared radiation detection and is lead system engineer for the first on-chips spectrometer instrument, Deshima. He is also the detector lead for the AMKID camera on APEX and has pushed MKID technology to sensitivity levels suitable for future cryogenically cooled space-based observatories. Prof. Baselmans published more than 100 papers.

Papers:

  • J.J.A. Baselmans, F. Facchin, A. Pascual Laguna, J. Bueno, V. Murugesan, N. Llombart, and P.J. de Visser.
    "Ultra-sensitive THz Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for future space telescopes."
    Astronomy & Astrophysics, 17, 1–10 (2022).
    https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243840
     
  • Akira Endo, Kenichi Karatsu, Yoichi Tamura, Tai Oshima, Akio Taniguchi et al., and Jochem J. A. Baselmans.
    "First light demonstration of the integrated superconducting spectrometer."
    Nature Astronomy, 3, 989–996 (2019).
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0850-8
     
  • J.J.A. Baselmans, J. Bueno, S.J.C. Yates, O. Yurduseven, N. Llombart, K. Karatsu, A.M. Baryshev, L. Ferrari, A. Endo, D.J. Thoen, P.J. de Visser, R.M.J. Janssen, V. Murugesan, E.F.C. Driessen, G. Coiffard, J. Martin-Pintado, P. Hargrave, and M. Griffin.
    "A kilo-pixel imaging system for future space based far-infrared observatories using microwave kinetic inductance detectors."
    Astronomy & Astrophysics, 601, A89 (2017).
    https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629653
     
  • J.J.A. Baselmans, B.J. vanWees and T.M. Klapwijk, T. M.
    “Reversing the direction of the supercurrent in a controllable Josephson junction”
    Nature, 397, 34-45 (1999)
    DOI: 10.1038/16204