Jan V. Sengers

Jan Vincent Sengers (born May 27, 1931) is a Dutch–American physicist and a distinguished university professor emeritus at the Institute for Physical Science and Technology of University of Maryland. He is known for seminal contributions in critical and non-equilibrium phenomena in soft condensed matter.

Education

Jan Sengers received his bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics in 1952, his master’s degree in physics in 1955, and his Ph.D. in physics in 1962, all cum laude from the University of Amsterdam.

Career

In 1963 Jan Sengers, together with his spouse Anneke Levelt Sengers, emigrated to the United States to become a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) that became the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1988. He joined the University of Maryland, College Park in 1968, first as associate professor and subsequently as professor in the Institute for Molecular Physics that was merged with the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics to become the Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST) in 1976. At the University of Maryland, he was also affiliate professor of chemical engineering from 1991 to 1994 and chair of the Department of chemical engineering from 1994 to 1999. Jan Sengers served as director of the Chemical Physics Program from 1978 to 1985 and as chair of the Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics from 2003 to 2006. He was also affiliate professor of mechanical engineering from 1996 to 1999 and from 2002 to 2021. Jan Sengers became distinguished university research professor Emeritus in 1999 and served as a Research Professor in IPST from 2000 to 2021. While at the University of Maryland he also remained affiliated with NBS/NIST, first on an intermittent basis from 1968 to 2001 and subsequently as a guest researcher from 2001 to 2022.