Charles J. Joachain#
| Membership Number: | 2375 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2006 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http:/homepages.ulb.ac.be/~cjoacha |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 - present Professeur ordinaire émérite, Université Libre de Bruxelles
- 2002 - present Professeur honoraire, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la Neuve
- 1999 - 2004 Invited Professor (Alexander von Humboldt Award) at the Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik (Garching, Germany)
- 1987 Invited Professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
- 1984 - 2002 Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la Neuve
- 1978 - 2002 Professeur ordinaire, Université Libre de Bruxelles
- 1974 - 2002 Director of the Service de Physique Atomique Théorique, Université Libre de Bruxelles
- 1971 - 1978 Professeur extraordinaire, Université Libre de Bruxelles
- 1969 - 1970 Invited Professor at the University of California (Berkeley) and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- 1968 - 1971 Chargé de cours, Université Libre de Bruxelles
- 1965 - 1966 Postdoctoral Research Physicist at the University of California (Berkeley) and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- 1965 - 1971 Chargé de cours associé, Université Libre de Bruxelles
- 1963 Ph.D. Physics Université Libre de Bruxelles
Fields of Scholarship
- Theoretical physics
- Quantum collision theory
- Interaction of intense laser fields with matter
Honours and Awards
- 1956 Prize of the European Research Associates
- 1963 Prix Scientifique Louis Empain, Sciences Physiques
- 1964 - 1965 Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation
- 1974 Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK)
- 1977 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 1980 - 1981 Chairman of the Department of Physics of the Université Libre de Bruxelles
- 1981 - 1984 Deputy Editor, Journal of Physics B.
- 1984 - 1990 Co-Editor, Europhysics Letters
- 1984 - 1993 Chairman of the Section of Electronic and Atomic Collisions of the European Physical Society
- 1987 - 1989 President of the Belgian Physical Society
- 1989 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Durham (UK)
- 1992 - 1996 Member of the Physics Panel of the European Community (Third and Fourth Framework Programmes)
- 1998 - 2000 Co-Editor, European Physical Journal D.
- 1998 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award
- 2003 Member of the Editorial Board of « Advances in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics »
- 2004 Member of the Académie Royale de Belgique (Classe des Sciences)
- 2006 President of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Belgique
- 2006 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2007 Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2012 Blaise Pascal Medal in Physics of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2015 Director of the "Classe des Sciences " of the Académie Royale de Belgique
- 2015 President of the Académie Royale de Belgique
