Mohsen (Muhsin) N. Harakeh#

EDUCATION RECORD

High School
National College of Choueifat, Lebanon
September 1961 – June 1966
Baccalaureate I granted with Highest Honours (June 1965)
Baccalaureate II granted with Highest Honours (June 1966)

B.Sc.; Major in Physics and Minor in Education
American University of Beirut, Lebanon
September 1966 – June 1969
B.Sc. granted With High Distinction (June 1969)

Summer Student Assistant
Atomic Energy Commission of Denmark, Risø, Denmark
June 1968 – September 1968

Graduate Studies in Physics
S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.
September 1969 – December 1974
Qualification Examination (M.Sc.) for Ph.D. Studies in Physics (June 1970)
Ph.D. in Physics (December 1974)
Ph.D. Thesis: “Dipole excitations in light nuclei”; Thesis advisor: Prof. Peter Paul


EMPLOYMENT AND CAREER RECORD

Teaching Assistant; scholarship granted by:
S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.
September 1969 – August 1970

Research Assistant; scholarship granted by:
S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.
September 1970 – December 1974

Research Associate
Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI), University of Groningen, The Netherlands
January 1975 - June 1977

Research Associate
Niels Bohr Institutet, Copenhagen, Denmark
June 1977 - June 1978

Assistant Professor
KVI, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
June 1978 - December 1981

Associate Professor
KVI, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
January 1982 - December 1985

Visiting Research Scholar
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
January 1983 - December 1983

Full Professor (A) in Experimental Nuclear Physics
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
January 1986 - December 1987

Deputy Head of the Nuclear Physics Group FOM KII
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
May 1986 - March 1989

Chairman of the Experimental Nuclear Physics Group
Faculteit Natuurkunde en Sterrenkunde
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
September 1987 - June 1989

Full Professor (B) in Experimental Nuclear Physics
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
January 1988 - December 1992

Head of the Nuclear Physics Group FOM K-V
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
April 1989 - January 1993

Full Professor (B) in Experimental Nuclear Physics
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
January 1993 - present

Deputy Director KVI
KVI, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
January 1993 - December 1995

Visiting Professor
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
May - July 1993

Director of International Research School FANTOM
University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
January 1994 - December 1995

Acting Director of International Research School FANTOM
University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
January 1996 - October 1996

Director KVI
KVI, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
January 1996 – December 2008

Visiting professor
University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan
May – August 2006

Visiting professor
GANIL & University of Caen
Caen, France
January 2009 – December 2009

Visiting professor
GSI
Darmstadt, Germany
January 2010 – June 2010


MEMBERSHIP OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC BODIES

Member of the Nuclear Physics National Working Group
May 1986 - February 1993

Member of the Council of Governors of FOM
Foundation FOM, Utrecht, The Netherlands
January 1990 - December 1995

Chairman of Nuclear Physics Summer Schools
The Netherlands
January 1991 - December 1996

Member of the program advisory committee for the The Svedberg Laboratory
Uppsala, Sweden
January 1990 - April 1999

Member of the program advisory committee for the Laboratori Nazionali Di Legnaro Legnaro, Italy
January 1991 - December 1995

Associate Editor Journal of Nuclear Physics
North-Holland (Elsevier), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
April 1994 - present

Member of the Program Advisory Committee for GANIL
GANIL, Caen, France
January 1995 – December 1999

Member of the committee RAS (Recycling of Actinides and Fission Fragments)
Ministry of Economic Affairs, The Hague, The Netherlands
January 1996 - December 1998

Member of the OECD Megascience Forum Working Group on Nuclear Physics
OECD, Paris, France
September 1996 – January 1999

Chairman of Nuclear Physics Division of the Dutch Physical Society
February 1997 – September 2006

Member of Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC)
January 1997 – December 2002

Member of writing committees of NuPECC reports
January 1997 – December 2008

Member of the Editorial Board of Nuclear Physics News International
April 1997 - December 1998

Member of the Program Advisory Committee for CYCLONE
CRC, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
April 1998 – April 2006

Chairman of the Editorial Board of Nuclear Physics News International
January 1999 - February 2003

Member of the Program Advisory Committee for COSY
FZJ, Jülich, Germany
January 1999 - March 2001

Chairman Evaluation Committee of Research Center for Nuclear Physics
University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan
January 2000

Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Japanese Studies
University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
January 2000 – present

Member of Expert Panel for Evaluation Interuniversity Attraction Poles Networks Belgian Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs
Brussels, Belgium
February – April 2000

Chairman of the Program Advisory Committee for COSY
FZJ, Jülich, Germany
April 2001 – December 2005

Chairman of the NuPECC Subcommittee for Evaluation of the GSI Future Project GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
April 2001 – September 2001

Member of the External Scientific Advisory Committee for the GSI Future Project
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
July 2001

Member of the Beirat (Advisory Board) of the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)
FZJ, Jülich, Germany
November 2001 – April 2005

Member of Review Panel “Projected Transregional Collaborative Research Centre: Subnuclear Structure of Matter”
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, Germany
September 2002

Chairman of NuPECC
January 2003 – December 2005

Member of Review Panel “Projected Transregional Collaborative Research Centre: Kernstructur, nukleare Astrophysik und fundamentale Experimente bei kleinen Impulsüberträgen am supraleitenden Darmstädter Elektronenbeschleuniger
(S-DALINAC)”
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Darmstadt, Germany
February 2003

Member of the Board of ECT* (European Center for Theoretical Physics and related areas)
ECT*, Trento, Italy
1 January 2003 – December 2005

Member of the External Advisory Committee on GSI Structure
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
June 2003 - December 2003

Member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee on SPIRAL 2
GANIL, Caen, France
September 2003 – December 2005

Member of the Peer Review Panel of University Trento
University of Trento, Trento, Italy
October 2003

Member of the Ad-Hoc Committee of C12 (IUPAP Commission on Nuclear Physics):
“International Committee for Cooperation in Nuclear Physics”
January 2004 – December 2005

Member of the RIKEN RI Beam Factory International Advisory Committee
RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan
November 2004

Member of the Review Committee of iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences (iThemba LABS)
iThemba, Stellenbosch, South Africa
November 2004

Associate Editor Physical Review C
American Institute of Physics, New York, U.S.A.
1 January 2005 – 30 January 2008

Member of the Evaluation Committee of Institute de Physique Nucléaire
IPNO, Orsay, France
May 2005

Member of the External Peer Review Panel of the CSIC “Theoretical and Experimental Physics” Activities
CSIC, Granada, Spain
September 2005

Member of the FWO (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen) Board, Committee Subatomic Physics
FWO, Brussels, Belgium
October 2005 - present

Member of NuPECC
January 2006 – December 2008

Vice Chairman of the Science Programme Advisory Council for Hadron Physics at Forschungszentrum Jülich
FZJ, Jülich, Germany
January 2006 - present

Member of the Working Group (WG9) of C12 (IUPAP) on “International Cooperation in Nuclear Physics”
January 2006 - December 2008

Member of Evaluation Committee of Research Center for Nuclear Physics
University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan
February 2006

Advisor on Education and Research Capacity Planning for Two-year Master Programmes in Flanders
Brussels, Belgium
February – March 2006

Chairman of Scientific Advisory Committee of SPIRAL 2
GANIL, Caen, France February 2006 - present

Member of the Programme Advisory Committee of the “Stichting Integrated Development Lab (IDL)”
Foundation IDL, Assen, The Netherlands
October 2006 - present

Research Fellow of the “Energy Delta Research Centre (EDReC)”
EDReC, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
November 2006 – present

Chairman of the Steering Group Groningen-Osaka
University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
November 2006 – present

Member of the Panel PE2 – Fundamental Constituents of Matter of the European Research Council (ERC)
European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
January 2007 – present

Coordinator of ENSAR (European Nuclear Science and Applications Research)
Integrated Infrastructure Initiative “Integrating Activity”, Capacities European Commission Seventh Framework Programme, Brussels, Belgium
September 2007 – present

Member of the Core Group “GANIL Prospectives 2015”
GANIL, Caen, France
January 2008 – April 2009

Member of the Committee for the Midterm evaluation of “Technische Natuurkunde” of the Dutch Technical Universities
Delft, Eindhoven and Twente, The Netherlands
October 2008

Chair of the Governing Council of NuPNET (European network of Nuclear Physics funding agencies)
October 2008- present

Chairman of the LIBRA Programme Advisory Committee
Tandem Accelerator Laboratory, Institute of Nuclear Physics
NCSR “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece
January 2009 – present

Member of Scientific Advisory Board, The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics
Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
January 2009 – present

Member of the Evaluation Panel of the Physics Department
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
March-June 2009

Member of the Spanish Evaluation Panel for the Particle Physics Projects in 2009
CSIC, Madrid, Spain
May 2009

Principal Expert of the CEA-Eurotalents Program
CEA, Saclay, France
July 2009 - present

Member of the FWO (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen) Committee W&T2 ‘Physics’
FWO, Brussels, Belgium
January 2010 - present

Member of the Advisory/Review Committee of ATOMKI/Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Debrecen, Hungary
January 2010 – present

Member of the “Prix Dr. A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart – Basic exact Sciences”
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS (F.R.S. - FNRS)
Brussels, Belgium
May 2010

Member of many International Advisory Committees of international conferences, symposia, workshops, etc.

Chairman and member of several organizing committees of international conferences, summer schools (see under seminars and invited talks)

MEMBERSHIP OF SOCIETIES AND AWARDS

American International Development (AID) Scholarship for B.Sc. studies at American University of Beirut, Lebanon
1966 - 1969

Fulbright scholarship (+ Travel Grant)
U.S. State Department, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
1969 - 1974

Member of the American Physical Society
1972 -present

Member of the Dutch Physical Society
1978 – present

Member of the Rotary Club
1995 - present

Member of the European Physical Society
2008 -present

Award of Research Fellow of the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science
1993

Fellow of the American Physical Society
1994 – present

Member of the Board of the Jabalya - Groningen Foundation
2002 – present

Medal of the Hellenic Nuclear Physics Society
May 2005

Award of Research Fellow of the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science
2006

Member of the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea)
January 2008 – present

Decoration as officer in the order of Oranje-Nassau
April 2008