Professor Daan Frenkel

Group leader

df246@cam.ac.uk

Rotational relaxation of linear molecules in dense noble gases, University of Amsterdam, 1977

1972-1977: Graduate student, FOM/University of Amsterdam
1977-1980: UCLA Chemistry Department - postdoc with Prof. J.P.McTague
1980-1981: Shell Research in Amsterdam
1981-1986: Condensed Matter Physics, University of Utrecht
1987-2007: FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam. After 2007: advisor
1987-2008: Nominal Professor of Computational Physical Chemistry at the University of Utrecht
1998-2007: Part-time Professor of Computational Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam; after 2007: part-time “Faculty Professor”
2007- : 1968 Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge,UK

1969: Unilever Chemistry award
1975: ZWO “CECAM” grant
1975: Shell travel grant
1985-1986: Visiting lecturer at the K.U. Leuven (Belgium)
1994: Dutch “chaperone”-speaker of P.G. de Gennes at the 1994 NWO-Huygens lecture
1997: “Physica” lecturer of the Dutch Physical Society
1997: “Lennard-Jones” lecture of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
1998: Regents lecturer. University of California at Los Angeles (USA)
1998: Elected member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
1999: Bourke lecturer and medalist of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
1999: James Franck Institute Distinguished Lecturer. University of Chicago (USA)
1999: Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
2000: NWO/SPINOZA-premie 2000
2002: Elected Member of the “Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen”
2004: Rothschild Professor, University of Cambridge (UK)
2005: Honorary Professor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology
2006: Foreign Member Royal Society (London)
2007: Aneesur Rahman Prize of the American Physical Society
2007: Honorary Doctorate, University of Edinburgh (UK)
2007: Alder-CECAM prize for Computer Simulation of the European Physical Society
2007: Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award
2008: Elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
2008: ERC Advanced Grant