Daan Frenkel

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1948 –

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Who is Daan Frenkel?

Daan Frenkel is a Dutch computational physicist.

By training, Frenkel is an experimental physical chemist. After his PhD at the University of Amsterdam, he worked as postdoctoral fellow at UCLA. 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 professor at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam. Since 2007 he is 1968 Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Since 2011, he is Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. In 2008 he was made a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and TWAS. Since 2006, he is a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. He is a recipient of the Aneesur Rahman Prize from the American Physical Society and the Berni J Alder CECAM prize. Frenkel has co-authored ´Understanding Molecular Simulation´, which has grown into a handbook used worldwide by aspiring computational physicists.

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Born
1948
Nationality
  • Netherlands
Education
  • Universiteit van Amsterdam
Lived in
  • Amsterdam

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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