Arnout CEULEMANS
Chemistry, K. U. Leuven
CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal information
- Date and place of birth : May 9th, 1952, Wilrijk
- Married to Monique SOMVILLE, 3 children
- Home address : Bergstraat 9, B-3370 Kerkom (Boutersem), Belgium
(phone: +32-16-734530)
Office address: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Department of Chemistry
Division Quantum Chemistry
Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001 Leuven (Belgium)
TEL : +32-16-327363
FAX : +32-16-327992
E-mail : Arnout.Ceulemans @ chem.kuleuven.be
Studies
- Ph.D. in chemistry, K.U.Leuven, 1979
- Master in philosophy, K.U.Leuven, 1980
- Dr.hab., Habilitation in Science, Faculty of Science, K.U.Leuven, 1986
Functions
- Senior researcher of the National Fund for Scientific Research (N.F.WO.)
(1991-1995)
- Professor, K.U. Leuven, Faculty of Science (since 1995)
- Programme Director of the Standing Committee for the Chemistry Curriculum
(1995-2005)
- Full professor, K.U. Leuven, Faculty of Science (since 1997)
- Member of the Physical Chemistry Commission of the Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk
Onderzoek (Fund for Scientific Research ? Flanders) (since 1999)
- Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Science (2000-2005)
- Research Director for Exact Sciences & Engineering, member of the board of
directors of the Group for Exact Sciences & Engineering KULeuven (since 2005)
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)
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
Research
- Author of over 180 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
- 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 Jahn-Teller Conferences
Member of the Organizing Committee for the European Master in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational modelling
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 group theory and topology in chemistry
- The theory of the Jahn-Teller effect
- Magnetic vortices in superconductors and molecules |
