Post by Maastricht University

A career on solid ground His nickname at high school was Zweistein, which made Rainer Goebel feel honoured. “Nobody matches Einstein; Zweistein was getting close.” His fellow students were not the only ones to recognise Goebel’s brainpower: Stanford University, once his dream institute, has tried to lure him to the States on more than one occasion. “But I’m happy with my choice for Maastricht back in 2000”, he says. An academic overachiever, the Netherlands’ first Tesla driver and hacker of the first iPhone, Goebel is also a farmer’s son and a family man. Full article: https://bit.ly/2X5Aizt