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Research:
Author of over 200 research papers
in SCI journals
Author of book chapters and book
reviews
Guest Editor of Advances in
Quantum Chemistry, Vol. 44.
Promotor of
several FWO-projects (Fund for scientific research Belgium)
Principal Investigator of
Concerted Action Scheme GOA programme of the Belgian Government on
“Electronic structure and properties of inorganic molecules”
(1998-2002)
Principal Investigator of
Concerted Action Scheme GOA programme of the Belgian Government on
“Multi-state quantum chemistry” (2003-2007)
Principal Investigator of
Concerted Action Scheme GOA programme of the Belgian Government on
“Multi-Centre quantum chemistry” (2008-2012)
Promotor
INTAS-programme 2000-565 “Synthesis, magneto-optical study and
theoretical analysis of d-f clusters with ferromagnetic
properties”
Vice-Chairman Centre of Excellence
Financing EF/05/05 “Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry” (INPAC)
2005-2010
Member of the Steering Committee
of the “European Science Foundation”-programme “Molecular Magnets”)
(1998-2002)
Member of the Steering Committee
of the International Jahn-Teller Conferences
Member of the Organizing Committee
for the Erasmus Mundus Master in Theoretical Chemistry and
Computational modelling (2010-2015)
Organizer Advanced ESF Workshop on
Theoretical Aspects of Molecular Magnetism, Knokke (Belgium) 4-7
November 1999
Organizer International Jahn-Teller
Conference, Leuven, Belgium (August 2002)
Research
interests:
Development and applications of
topology in chemistry
The theory of the Jahn-Teller
effect
Nanochemistry:
fullerenes, Boron clusters, molecular magnets
Dynamical topology of proteins and
nucleic acids
Teaching:
G216 : advanced inorganic
chemistry - master of chemistry
G223 : chemical applications of
group theory - master of chemistry
G108 : physics of the chemical
bond – master of physics
G756 : seminar of the Quantum
Chemistry Division - master of chemistry
H1Y1: general and technical
chemistry part - bachelor of civil engineer-architect
GA43 : advanced group theory -
doctoral training programme
ION26: inorganic and analytical
chemistry - bachelor of bio-engineering
Scientific awards:
J.Stas-award
(Royal Academy of Sciences, Brussels, 1979)
Triennial award of the Vlaamse
Leergangen (Leuven, 1980)
Government of Canada Award (1980)
Stanley Kipping Fellow (University
of Nottingham, 1982)
Laureate of the Royal Academy of
Science of Belgium (Brussels, 1984)
Fellow of the Japan Society for
the Promotion of Science (Tokyo, 2001) |
