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Daan Frenkel
Born1948 (age 75–76)
Alma materUniversity of Amsterdam (PhD)
AwardsForMemRS (2006)[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
ThesisRotational relaxation of linear molecules in dense noble gases (1977)
Websitewww.ch.cam.ac.uk/staff/df.html

Daan Frenkel (born 1948, Amsterdam) is a Dutch computational physicist in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.[2][3]

Education

By training, Frenkel is an experimental physical chemist who completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam (1977).[citation needed]

Career and research

Frenkel worked as postdoctoral research fellow at UCLA (Chemistry and Biochemistry Department). Subsequently, he worked at Shell and at the University of Utrecht. Between 1987 and 2007, Frenkel carried out his research at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics AMOLF in Amsterdam where he has been employed since 1987. In the same period, he was appointed (part time) professor at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam. Since 2007 he is 1968 Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He was Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge from 2011 to 2015.[citation needed]

Frenkel has co-authored ´Understanding Molecular Simulation´ (together with Berend Smit), which has grown into a handbook used worldwide by aspiring computational physicists.[citation needed]

Awards and honours

In 2008 he was made a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998),[4] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008), and TWAS (2012). He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2006. In 2016 he was elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences.[5] He is a recipient of the Aneesur Rahman Prize from the American Physical Society and the Berni J Alder CECAM prize.

In 2000 he was one of three winners of the Dutch Spinoza Prize.[6] He is the recipient of the 2016 Boltzmann Medal.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "Professor Daan Frenkel ForMemRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived September 25, 2015)
  2. ^ http://www-frenkel.ch.cam.ac.uk Daan Frenkel's research group's homepage
  3. ^ Martiniani, Stefano; Schrenk, K. Julian; Stevenson, Jacob D.; Wales, David J.; Frenkel, Daan (2016). "Turning intractable counting into sampling: Computing the configurational entropy of three-dimensional jammed packings". Physical Review E. 93 (1). doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.93.012906.
  4. ^ "Daan Frenkel" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  5. ^ National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, News from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, May 3, 2016, retrieved 2016-05-14.
  6. ^ "NWO Spinoza Prize 2000". Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 11 September 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
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