Jelle de Plaa

Jelle de Plaa is a Senior Software Design Engineer and Postdoctoral Scientist at SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research since February 2009, focusing on clusters of galaxies in X-rays. Prior to this role, Jelle served as a Postdoctoral Scientist at TU Delft from April 2007 to January 2009, working on enhancing sea floor measurements with multi-beam echo sounders for Rijkswaterstaat. Jelle also completed a PhD on the chemical enrichment of clusters of galaxies at SRON from November 2002 to February 2007. Academic credentials include a Master of Science (M.Sc.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Astrophysics from Utrecht University, obtained in 2002 and 2007, respectively.