Curriculum Vitae

1983 - 1988: Chemistry study at Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Major: Theoretical Chemistry
Minor: Organic Chemistry

1988 - 1993: Ph.D. in Mass Spectrometry at Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Promotor: Prof. Dr. N.M.M. Nibbering
Copromotor: Prof. Dr. E. J. Baerends
Title of thesis: Base-Induced Elimination Reactions - An Experimental and Theoretical Study on Gas-Phase Reactions

1993 - 1997: Postdoctoral positions in Theoretical Chemistry with
1. Prof. Dr. P. von Ragué Schleyer, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
2. Prof. Dr. T. Ziegler, University of Calgary, Canada
3. Prof. Dr. R. Hoffmann, Cornell University, USA
4. Prof. Dr. E. J. Baerends, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands

1997 - 1999: Assistant Professor at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

1999 - 2003: Tenured Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2003 - 2008: Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2009 - present: Full Professor at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Scholarships and Prizes

1993: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Postdoctoral Fellowship

1997: DFG Habilitation Fellowship

2001: Jonge Chemici award (NWO-CW)

2002: VICI award (NWO); see also VU webpage "Vici Laureaten".

2004: National Research School Combination - Catalysis (NRSC-C) research grant

2007: Nominated Best Teacher Faculty of Sciences

2009: NRSC-C research grant

2009: Selected Teacher of the Amsterdam University College (AUC)

2010: NWO Astrochemistry research grant

2011: Theoretical Chemistry group rated excellent (maximum score) by international Chemistry Review Committee, which has assessed chemistry research at universities across the Netherlands.

2011: Nominated Best Teacher Faculty of Sciences

2011: NRSC-C research grant Bio-Solar Cells

2012: NWO BAZIS grant for Large Compute Cluster (joint ACMM proposal)

Management and other Academic Activities

1. Head Department of Theoretical Chemistry

2. Chairman of the Board, Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC)

3. Secretary of the Board, Division of Spectroscopy and Theory, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)

4. Editorial Board member of ChemistryOpen (VCH and ChemPubSoc Europe)

5. Editorial Board member of Physcial Chemistry Chemical Physics (Royal Society of Chemistry)

6. Editorial Board member of the Journal of Computational Chemistry (Wiley)

7. Chairman of the Education Commission, Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences

8. Member of the "Curriculum Commission for a joint Chemistry Bachelor" of VU and UvA Universities

9. Member of the Public Relations Commission, Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences

10. Editor of the Website, Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences

11. Member of the "VU Advise Commission" of VU University

12. Member of the Commission for Physical Chemistry, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) in Belgium

13. Member of Chemical Societies: (1) KNCV (Netherlands), (2) GDCh (Germany), (3) ACS (USA), (4) IUPAC (international), (5) WATOC (international), (6) AGTC (Germany)

14. Referee for funding agencies: (1) NWO, Netherlands; (2) ERC, EU; (3) NSF, USA, (4) FWF, Austria; (5) RCN, Norway; (6) NSERC, Canada; (7) Petroleum Research Fund (PRF), USA; (8) U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), USA; (9) Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT); (10) The Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong, China.

15. Referee for 70 international scientific journals

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