— Positions & education —

2023 — … // Head of Research at an R&D Lab building self-improving, decentralised AI

2022 — … // Co-founder, Cosmic Origins Of Life (COOL) Research DAO, coolresearch.io

2022 — … // Chair & Spokesperson, Young Academy, Heidelberg Academy of Humanities and Sciences

2023 — 2024 // Research Group Leader, Technical University of Munich

2017 — 2024 // ERC Starting Grant Research Group Leader, European Research Council

2022 — 2023 // Chief Data Officer at an AI-oriented enterprise

2016 — 2022 // Emmy Noether Research Group Leader, German Research Foundation

2016 — 2022 // Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany

2015 — 2016 // Gliese Fellow & Research Group Leader, Heidelberg University, Germany

2011 — 2015 // MPA Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany

2012 // Visiting Scientist, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

2011 // PhD in Astrophysics, Utrecht University, Netherlands

2007 — 2011 // NWO Toptalent PhD Fellow, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

2009 // Visiting PhD Student, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

2007 — 2011 // Visiting PhD Student, Leiden University, The Netherlands

2005 — 2007 // MSc in Astrophysics, Utrecht University, Netherlands

2002 — 2005 // BSc in Physics, Utrecht University, Netherlands

— Interests & activities // Astrophysics —

star formation // interstellar medium // stellar feedback // galaxy formation // globular clusters //

planetary systems // cosmic origins of life // emergence in complex systems // population dynamics

— Interests & activities // Applied research —

data science & machine learning // developing functional economic and social systems //

quantitative time series analysis // building real-world applications of web3 technology

— Selected grants, fellowships & awards —

2022 // Pastoor Schmeits Prize, Royal Netherlands Astronomical Society

2020 // Emmy Noether Extension Grant, German Research Foundation

2020 // Academy Prize, Heidelberg Academy of Humanities and Sciences

2018 // Individual Research Grant, German Research Foundation

2017 // Hengstberger Prize, Heidelberg University

2017 // Ludwig Biermann Prize, German Astronomical Society

2016 // ERC Starting Grant, European Research Council

2016 // Emmy Noether Research Grant, German Research Foundation

2015 // Gliese Fellowship, Heidelberg University

2013 // Christiaan Huygens Prize, Dutch Royal Academy of Arts & Sciences

2011 // Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

2007 // Toptalent PhD Fellowship, Dutch Research Foundation

— Publication summary —

Total of >270 peer-reviewed publications

(4 in Nature // 28 as first author // >50 as second author // >20 as third author)

Total of >15,000 citations // >250,000 reads // h-index of 71

(taken from the NASA Astrophysics Data System // full publication list // metrics)

— Communication summary —

Total of >80 media & public outreach appearances (TV, radio, lectures, podcasts)

16 press releases // >170 scientific talks in 20 countries (>75 invited)

— Highlight publications —

• 1) Environmental dependence of the molecular cloud lifecycle in 54 main-sequence galaxies
  Kim, J., Chevance, M., Kruijssen, J. M. D., et al., MNRAS 516, 3006 (2022)
• 2) Empirically motivated early feedback: momentum input by stellar feedback in galaxy simulations inferred through observations
  Keller, B. W., Kruijssen, J. M. D. & Chevance, M., MNRAS 514, 5355 (2022)
• 3) Pre-supernova feedback mechanisms drive the destruction of molecular clouds in nearby star-forming disc galaxies
  Chevance, M., Kruijssen, J. M. D., et al., MNRAS 509, 272, (2022)
• 4) Stellar clustering shapes the architecture of planetary systems
  Winter, A. J., Kruijssen, J. M. D., Longmore, S. N. & Chevance, M., Nature 586, 528 (2020)
• 5) Kraken reveals itself – the merger history of the Milky Way reconstructed with the E-MOSAICS simulations
  Kruijssen, J. M. D., Pfeffer, J. L., Chevance, M., et al., MNRAS 498, 2472 (2020; press release)
• 6) The lifecycle of molecular clouds in nearby star-forming disc galaxies
  Chevance, M., Kruijssen, J. M. D., et al., MNRAS 493, 2872 (2020)
• 7) The formation and assembly history of the Milky Way revealed by its globular cluster population
  Kruijssen, J. M. D., Pfeffer, J. L., Reina-Campos, M. et al., MNRAS 486, 3180 (2019)
• 8) The E-MOSAICS Project: tracing galaxy formation and assembly with the age-metallicity distribution of globular clusters
  Kruijssen, J. M. D., Pfeffer, J. L., Crain, R. A. & Bastian, N., MNRAS 486, 3134 (2019)
• 9) Fast and inefficient star formation due to short-lived molecular clouds and rapid feedback
  Kruijssen, J. M. D., Schruba, A., Chevance, M., Longmore, S. N., et al., Nature 569, 519 (2019, press release)
• 10) An uncertainty principle for star formation - II. A new method for characterising the cloud-scale physics of star formation and feedback across cosmic history
  Kruijssen, J. M. D., Schruba, A., Hygate, A. P. S., et al., MNRAS 479, 1866 (2018)
• 11) The E-MOSAICS project: simulating the formation and co-evolution of galaxies and their star cluster populations
  Pfeffer, J., Kruijssen, J. M. D., Crain, R. A. & Bastian, N., MNRAS 475, 4309 (2018)
• 12) Globular clusters as the relics of regular star formation in ‘normal’ high-redshift galaxies
  Kruijssen, J. M. D., MNRAS 454, 1658 (2015)
• 13) What controls star formation in the central 500 pc of the Galaxy?
  Kruijssen, J. M. D., Longmore, S. N., Elmegreen, B. G., et al., MNRAS 440, 3370 (2014)
• 14) An uncertainty principle for star formation. I. Why galactic star formation relations break down below a certain spatial scale
  Kruijssen, J. M. D. & Longmore, S. N., MNRAS 439, 3239 (2014)
• 15) On the fraction of star formation occurring in bound stellar clusters
  Kruijssen, J. M. D., MNRAS 426, 3008 (2012)