Robert-Jan Smits
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Robert-Jan Smits (* 1958 ) is a Dutch EU official and was Director General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission from 2010 to 2018 .
Life
Robert-Jan Smits studied, each with a degree, at the University of Utrecht , the Geneva University Institute for International Studies and at the Tufts University in the USA.
From 1985 to 1989 he worked for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. He then moved to the European Commission in the Research Directorate-General, where he went through various career steps. After all, he has headed this Directorate-General since July 2010, having previously been Deputy Director General of the Joint Research Center for a short time . Since 2018 he has been Senior Adviser for Open Access and Innovation at the European Commission.
In 2018 Smits was elected to the Academia Europaea . In 2018, the journal Nature named him in the list of the 10 most influential people of the year for science in connection with the Plan S , which he largely designed .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Holly Else: Nature's 10. Ten people who mattered this year. In: Nature . December 2018, accessed December 19, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Smits, Robert-Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch EU official and director general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |