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Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs

Erik Luijten leads policy development and implementation for academic personnel in the McCormick School of Engineering. He also provides support for Global Initiatives within the school.
Luijten has served as chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and his research and teaching are in computational materials science of soft matter.
Luijten earned a master of science in physics from the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Utrecht University and a PhD in physics from Delft University of Technology, both in the Netherlands.