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Personal information

 

First name(s) / Surname(s)

CEULEMANS, Arnout, Jozef

Address(es)

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Department of Chemistry

Division of Quantum Chemistry

Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001 Leuven (Belgium)

Telephone(s)

+32-16-327363

 

 

E-mail

Arnout.Ceulemans @ chem.kuleuven.be

Nationality

Belgian

 

 

Date of birth

May 9th, 1952

 

 

Gender

Man

Work experience

 

 

 

Dates

1991-1995

Occupation or position held

Senior researcher of the National Fund for Scientific Research (FWO)

Name and employer

FWO (National Fund for Scientific Research)

Dates

since 1995

Occupation or position held

Professor, K.U. Leuven, Faculty of Science

Name and employer

K.U. Leuven

Dates

1995-2005

Occupation or position held

Programme Director of the Standing Committee for the Chemistry Curriculum

Name and employer

Chemistry Curriculum

Dates

since 1997

Occupation or position held

Full professor, K.U. Leuven, Faculty of Science

Name and employer

K.U. Leuven

Dates

1999-2007

Occupation or position held

Member of the Physical Chemistry Commission of the FWO (National Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders)

Name and employer

FWO (National Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders)

Dates

2000-2005

Occupation or position held

Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Science

 

KULeuven

 

 

Dates

Occupation or position held

2005-2010

Research Director for Science, Engineering & Technology, member of the governing

board of the Group for Science & Engineering KULeuven

Name and employer

KULeuven

 

 

 

 

Education and training

 

Dates

1979

Title of qualification awarded

Ph.D. in chemistry, K.U.Leuven

Dates

1980

Title of qualification awarded

Master in philosophy, K.U.Leuven

Dates

1986

Title of qualification awarded

Dr.hab., Habilitation in Science, Faculty of Science, K.U.Leuven

 

 

Personal skills and competences

 

 

 

Mother tongue(s)

Dutch

 

 

Other language(s)

 

Self-assessment

 

Understanding

Speaking

Writing

European level (*)

 

Listening

Reading

Spoken interaction

Spoken production

 

English

 

 

C1

 

C2

 

C1

 

C2

 

C2

French

 

 

C2

 

C2

 

B2

 

C1

 

B2

German

 

 

B1

 

C1

 

B1

 

B1

 

B1

 

(*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

 

 

Social skills and competences

Teaching, chairing meetings

 

 

Organisational skills and competences

Organizing workshops and conferences

 

 

Computer skills and competences

Text editors (windows, latex), Fortran, Mathematica

 

 

Other skills and competences

Executive member of the committee for scientific integrity at KUL

 

 

Driving licence

Belgian driving licence C (for vehicles over 3.5 Tons)

 

Additional information: Research, Research interest, teaching, scientific awards

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)

 

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