Grégoire Nicolis#
Sadly, this member passed away. | |
Membership Number: | 732 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
Elected: | 1990 |
Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
Grégoire Nicolis passed away October 18, 2018.
Positions Held
- 2004 Professor Emeritus, Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Founder and director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles
- 1989 - 1990 Francqui chair Professor at the University of Louvain
- 1988 - 2004 Director of the service de Chimie Physique
- 1968 - 2004 Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Visiting Professor at the Universities of Texas (1972), Oregon (1976), Notre-Dame (1976), Paris (1975, 1986, 1991) and Geneva (1979)
Fields of Scholarship
- Nonlinear dynamics
- Complex systems
- Irreversible phenomena
- Thermodynamics
- Statistical mechanics
Honours and Awards
- 1970 Théophile De Donder Prize of the Belgian Royal Academy
- 1975 Associate member of the Classe des Sciences of the Royal Academy of Belgium
- 1992 Corresponding member of the Academy of Athens
- Member of the European Academy of Sciences
- Honorary professor of the Faculty of Science of the University of Chile
- Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Chile
- 1994 - 1997 Member of the European Science and Technology Assembly
- 1996 - 1999 Member of the Physics panel of Marie Curie fellowships of the European Commission
- 2004 - 2006 Member of the evaluation panel of the NEST program of the European Commission
- Member of the European and American Physical Societies