Dr. Ron Jansen received a PhD in Experimental Physics from the University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands) in 1997, and was a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Cambridge, USA). After that he moved to the University of Twente (The Netherlands), where he became a tenured assistant professor, associate professor, leader of the NanoElectronics Research Chair and group leader with the Netherlands Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM). Since 2010, he works at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Tsukuba, Japan), where he is now a prime senior researcher (首席研究員) at the Spintronics Research Center.

He has published 100+ technical articles in peer-reviewed journals, incl. book chapters and reviews, and given more than 110+ invited scientific presentations. He received personal award grants from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. He served on international advisory boards and program committees of various international conferences in magnetism (MMM, INTERMAG & joint meetings, JEMS), semiconductor devices and spintronics. He was editor of IEEE Transactions on Magnetics and the European Journal of Applied Physics and is a member of the IEEE Magnetics Society.