Chimie Quantique et Photophysique

Jean Vander Auwera

Senior Research Associate (Maître de Recherches) with the FNRS
Lecturer (Chargé de cours) with the ULB

Scientific Career

PhD in Sciences, ULB, 1987.
Research Associate with the National Research Council Canada (Ottawa), under the supervision of Dr John W. C. Johns, 1988.
Senior Research Assistant with the FNRS (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium), 1989-91.
Researcher with the "Services de Programmation de la Politique Scientifique" (Belgium), 1992-93.
Research Associate with the FNRS (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium), 1993-2005.
Maître de conférences ULB (part-time), 1996-2005.
Agrégé de l'Enseignement Supérieur (habilitation) in Sciences, 2004.
Senior Research Associate with the FNRS (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium) and Chargé de cours ULB (lecturer, part-time), 2005-.

Physical chemistry: High resolution infrared spectroscopy of gas phase polyatomic molecules observed in planetary atmospheres.
Quantitative spectroscopy: Measurements of absorption line parameters (absolute intensities and pressure-induced widths and shifts) using Fourier transform spectroscopy.
Environment: Contribution to the atmospheric databases "HIgh TRANsmission database" (HITRAN) and "Gestion et Etude des Informations Spectroscopiques Atmosphériques" (GEISA).

G. Blanquet, M. Lepère (Laboratoire Lasers et Spectroscopies, Facultés Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium).
V. Boudon (Institut Carnot de Bourgogne, Dijon, France).
A. Campargue (Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique, Université J. Fourier, Grenoble, France).
C. Di Lauro, F. Lattanzi (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy).
J.-M. Flaud, F. Kwabia Tchana, A. Perrin (LISA, Université de Paris 7 et 12, France).
M. Herman (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium).
T. Huet (PhLAM, Université de Lille I, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France).
M. Rotger, L. Daumont (Groupe de Spectrométrie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique, Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, Reims, France).
N. Moazzen-Ahmadi (Phas, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada).
V.I. Perevalov (Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Tomsk, Russia).

Associated Editor of the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (JQSRT, 2007-) and the Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy (2007-2010)
Guest editor, with L.S. Rothman and L.R. Brown, of the Special Issue of JQSRT devoted to the 2008 edition of HITRAN (Vol. 110, June/July 2009)

Member of the International Scientific Committee of the Winter Topical Meeting on Fourier transform spectroscopy (Optical Society of America, USA, 2003).
Member of the International Advisory Committee of HITRAN (2004-2011)
Member of the Steering Committee of the Molecular Spectroscopy Facility (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom, 2007-2011)
Member of the International Scientific Committee of the Journées de Spectroscopie Moléculaire
(France, 2008-)