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Han was appointed Head of the Knowledge Transfer Group on 1 January 2026.

He joined the CERN Knowledge Transfer Group in September 2017, where he was responsible for business development and the establishment of industrial partnerships. He was subsequently appointed Section Leader in January 2019.

Prior to joining CERN, Han worked at CMG, a London-headquartered consultancy, where he led technology projects in collaboration with major industrial partners including Daimler-Benz, Vodafone, and Philips.

Han began his career in industry in 1994 at Medtronic, where he was responsible for conducting clinical evaluations of new therapies across Europe, notably involving novel pacing devices for the treatment of heart failure.

He studied physics at TU Delft and is an alumnus of IMD (Geneva), Webster University (Leiden), and the Haas School of Management, University of California (USA).