Jens Kreisel took office as rector of the University of Luxembourg on 1 January 2023. Jens Kreisel obtained in 1999 his PhD in materials physics at the Grenoble Institute of Technology. After a post-doc at the University of Oxford, he continued his international career in Grenoble where he was until 2011 Director of Research at CNRS. From 2006 to 2011, he also acted as advisor to the President and then as Deputy Vice-President in the senior management team of Grenoble INP. From 2011 to 2012, he was a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies of Warwick University. In 2012, Jens Kreisel became the Founding Director of the Materials Research and Technology department at the LIST. From 2018 to 2022, he was appointed Vice-Rector for research at the University of Luxembourg and Full Professor in Physics and Materials Science.