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Jeroen Heijmans is an instrumental astronomer at the forefront of Galactic Archaeology and spatially resolved galaxy spectroscopy. His primary contributions lie in the design, integration, and first-light commissioning of major facility-class instruments for the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). Heijmans was central to the High Efficiency and Resolution Multi-Element Spectrograph (HERMES), a cornerstone of the GALAH survey, which aims to unravel the formation and evolution of the Milky Way by chemically tagging millions of stars. His work on HERMES, documented in highly cited papers (93 and 17 citations), details the spectrograph’s engineering and its transformative first-light results. Beyond stellar archaeology, Heijmans has pioneered multi-object spectroscopy with innovations like Starbugs—self-motile robotic fiber positioners—and concepts for Hector, a high-multiplex instrument for spatially resolved galaxy kinematics. His research on robotic positioning systems (11 and 3 citations) has enabled the deployment of fiber hexabundles for integral field spectroscopy, as proven by the successful SAMI instrument. By bridging cutting-edge engineering with ambitious survey science, Heijmans has empowered the astronomical community to conduct large-scale, high-resolution studies of both our Galaxy and the distant universe.