Gerard Meijer#
Membership Number: | 3479 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2013 |
Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Homepage(s): | http://www.ru.nl/english/general/central-governing/vm/meijer |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012, 09 President of the executive Board, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 2012, 09 External Scientific Member of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck society, Berlin, Germany
- 2002, 08 Director, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany
- 2000, 01 Director, FOM Institute for Plasmaphysics "Rijnhuizen", Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
- 1995, 01 Full Professor in Experimental Physics, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 1992, 02 Lecturer in Experimental Physics, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 1991, 01 Post-doctoral Fellow, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 1989, 01 Post-doctoral Fellow, IBM Almaden Research Center, San José, CA, USA
- 1985, 04 Ph.D. student researcher at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Gas-phase molecular physics
- Manipulating molecules with electro-magnetic fields
- Cold molecules
- Spectroscopic studies on clusters and biomolecules
- Development of laser-based spectroscopic detection techniques
- Infrared free electron lasers
- Fullerenes
- Combustion diagnostics
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Van 't Hoff Prize of the German Bunsen Society
- 2011 Jacob Bigeleisen Lecturer, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
- 2010 Harry Emmett Gunning Lecturer, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
- 2009 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2009 Bourke Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
- 2008 Norman Hascoe Lecturer, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
- 2004 Honorary Professor in Experimental Physics, Free University, Berlin, Germany
- 2004 Corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands
- 2004 Honorary Professor in Experimental Physics, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands