Jos WM van der Meer is emeritus Professor of Medicine at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Between 1992 and 2012 he was head of the Department of internal medicine at the Radboud University Medical Centre.

His major areas of expertise are host defence against infection, autoinflammation, immunodeficiency and antimicrobial therapy.

He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), for which he served as a vice-president from 2005 to 2011. He is a member of Academia Europaea and he is currently past-president of EASAC, the European Academies Science Advisory Council. He is a honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London and in Edinburgh and a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

He is a member of the Dutch National Board for Research Integrity LOWI.

He received a number of prices and awards, such as the Gold Hijmans van den Bergh medal. He was awarded knighthood in the order of the Netherlands Lion in 2003.

He published more than 1000 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. His H factor is 101.