Curriculum Vitae          (July 2011)


name: Henk van Beijeren
born: December 1943 in Landsmeer, The Netherlands
Dutch citizen

 

Studies and grades:

1955-1961       Zaanlands Lyceum, Zaandam, The Netherlands
1961-1969       Universiteit van Amsterdam, undergraduate study in theoretical physics
1969-1974       Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, PhD study in theoretical physics


1965  Kandidaatsexamen (bachelors)
1969  Doctoraalexamen (masters) 

1974  PhD (supervised by M.H. Ernst) 

1980  Habilitation at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany

 

Professional career:

 May     69   Research assistant (Wetenschappelijk medewerker)  at KUN, Nijmegen
 Sept.   74   Research associate  at University of Maryland, College Park, Md. USA
 Sept.   76   Research associate (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent) at RWTH Aachen, Germany
 Dec.    80  Privatdozent at RWTH Aachen, Germany
 Jan.     84  Professor at RWTH Aachen, Germany
 April     86  Professor at ITP, Utrecht University 

 Jan. 03 - May 07   Scientific director of ITP, Utrecht

 June 08 - June 10   Scientific director of JSTAT

 

Distinctions:
1974 Visiting professor at the Rockefeller University in New York
1983 Visiting professor at the Technion, Haifa
1983 Substitute professor at the University of Essen
2000 Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, visiting ICU in Tokyo
2006 Visiting professor at UNSW@ADFA, Canberra, Australia
2008 Humboldt-Forschungspreis

 

PhD theses supervised:

I. Nolden                         17-09-1990     Equilibrium crystal shapes

J.A. Leegwater                 23-05-1991     Kinetic theory of dense fluids,                                                         

E. Carlon                         08-01-1996     Thermodynamics of crystal surfaces

R. van Zon                      14-02-2000      Chaos in dilute hard sphere gases in and out of

R. Bikker                         12-09-2001      Structure and dynamics of crystal surfaces

A.S. de Wijn                    22-11-2004      Chaos in systems with many degrees of freedom

K. Brendel                       09-01-2006       Nucleation in the two-dimensional Ising model          

 

Co-advisor of the following theses: 

M. Ossendrijver                09-09-1996       Fluctuations and energy balance in solar and stellar dynamos         

R. Verberg (TU Delft)        16-11-1998       Transport properties in concentrated colloidal suspensions           

A. van Heukelum              01-12-2003       Simulation of polymer dynamics in gels and melts 
B. Zoetekouw                  09-09-2006       Phase behavior of charge colloids 

A. Torres Valderama          09-06-2008      Statistical thermodynamics of charge-stabilized colloids 

J. Zwanikken                    29-09-2009       Looking deeper into emulsions and suspensions ionic screening,              

                                                            fractionation, and adsorption             

J. Kuipers                        29-09-2009       Theory and Simulation of Nucleation             

                     

 
Invited talks given at international conferences during the last six years:

 

2002 "87th Rutgers meeting on statistical mechanics"            Rutgers Univ.                 USA

2002 "Microscopic Chaos and Transport ..."                          MPIPKS Dresden             Germany

2002 "Granada seminar on computational physics"                 Granada   Univ.              Spain

2002 "NEXT2002",                                                            Santa Fe                       USA

2003 "MECO 28",                                                              Univ. Saarbrücken           Germany

2003 "Nonlinear phenomena and complex systems"                ULB Brussels                   Belgium

2003 "89th Rutgers meeting on statistical mechanics"            Rutgers Univ.                  USA

2003 "Randomness in space and time",                                Budapest                       Hungary

2003 "NEXT2003",                                                            Sardinia                         Italy

2003 "ESF conference on foundational issues

                    in statistical physics"                                    Utrecht                         The Netherlands

2004 "Workshop on quantum chaos and

          nonequilibrium ...",                                                 Technion, Haifa               Israel

2004 "CECAM workshop on nonequilibrium systems"                Lyon                             France

2004 "ESI workshop on dynamics",                                      Vienna                           Austria

2005 “DPG meeting"                                                          Berlin                            Germany

2005 "International workshop Brownian motion one

            hundred years after Einstein"                                 Oegstgeest                   The Netherlands

2005 "UPoN4-2005"                                                           Gallipoli                         Italy

2005  "100 years of Brownian motion,

            an ESF STochdyn conference"                                 Erice                            Italy

2006  "Work, dissipation and fluctuations in

            nonequilibrium systems"                                        Brussels                        Belgium

2006 "LMS Durham Symposium on

            Dynamical Systems and Statistical Mechanics”"          Durham                         UK

2006  "Randomness and hyperbolicity

           in dynamical systems”"                                           Budapest                      Hungary

2007 "CCP2007"                                                                ULB Brussels                  Belgium
2007 "98th Rutgers meeting on statistical mechanics"             Rutgers University          USA

2008 "TIENCS 2008"                                                          National University          Singapore

2008 "ISTCP-VI"                                                                UBC                             Canada

2010 "Statphys24"                                                            Cairns                           Australia

2010 "104th Rutgers meeting on statistical mechanics"            Rutgers University          USA

2011 “4th Warsaw School of Statistical Physics”                      Kazimierz Dolny               Poland                                                                                    

                                                                                    
 

 

Invited seminar talks, colloquia etc. given abroad:


1998 Mainz, Oxford, Lyon, Rutgers

1999 Jülich, Maryland

2000 Tokyo, Kyoto, Chubu, Tsukuba, Padova, Brussels

2001 Aachen, Brussels

2002  Princeton, Maryland, Padova, Los Alamos, Leuven

2003 Vienna, Florence, Maryland, Torino

2004  Essen, London

2005 Gainesville, Maryland

2006 Cambridge, Vienna

2007 Mumbai, Roorkee, New Delhi, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Singapore, Paris, Maryland

2008 Leuven, Vienna, Orsay

2009 Venice, Mainz, Aachen

2010 Orsay, Mumbai

 

 

 

 Meetings organized:

 

1998 "Dynamics: Models and Kinetic methods for non-equilibrium many body systems",

          NATO ASI,  Lorentz Center Leiden, The Netherlands (director)

 

2000 "Changes with time", Symposium in honor of M.H. Ernst (chairman), Utrecht University

 

2001 "Eighty years of war on mediocrity", Symposium in honor of N.G. van Kampen's 80th

          birthday  (chairman), Utrecht University

 

2002 "Microscopic chaos and transport in many-particle systems", MPIPKS workshop

          (scientific coordinator)  Dresden, Germany

 

2004 "Statphys 2004" (Member of topic committee), Bangalore, India

 

2005 "Trends in Theory", biennial symposium of the Dutch Research School of Theoretical Physics

          (program committee)

 

2006 "Work, dissipation and fluctuations in  nonequilibrium systems" (member of Scientific

           committee) Brussels, Belgium

 

2006 "Past, present and future", one-day symposium at the occasion of N.G. van Kampen’s 85th

          birthday, Utrecht University

 

2007 Symposium in the honor of L.F. Feiner

 

2007 "Statistical Physics of Systems out of Equilibrium", trimester at the Institut Henri Poincaré,

           Paris (organizer)

 

since 1986 "National seminar in statistical physics" regular meetings of Dutch statistical physicists,

          rotating between institutes (local organizer)

 

 

 

Board memberships, editorships etc.:

 

1985-1987      Editor of Journal of Statistical Physics

1989-present  Editor of the proceedings of the summer school series "Fundamental Problems in

                        Statistical Physics"

1992-1994      Editor of Journal of Statistical Physics

2002              Editor of a special issue of Journal of Statistical Physics

2002-present  Board member of  "Natuurkundig  Gezelschap te Utrecht"
2003              External member of the Board of Assessors for a chair in mathematical physics,

                        University College Dublin

2004              Editor of a special issue of Physica D

2004-present   Editor of JSTAT

2003-2008       Board member of the Dutch Research School of Theoretical Physics

2008-present   Member of IUPAP C3 commission