Service de Chimie Quantique et Photophysique
(Atomes, Molécules et Atmosphères)
Laboratoire Européen Associé – European Associated Laboratory
[Me (??k)]
Michel Godefroid

Scientific Career

  • Ph.D. in Chemistry, ULB, 1980.
  • Agrégé de l'Enseignement Supérieur en Physique Atomique et Moléculaire (Habilitation), ULB, 1992.
  • Research Associate at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN, USA), 1981.
  • Research Associate of the Belgian FNRS (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique), 1982-92.
  • Senior Research Associate of the Belgian FNRS, 1992-96.
  • Research Director of the Belgian FNRS, 1996-2002.
  • Full Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 2002-.
  • Visiting Professor at Queen's University of Belfast, U.K., 1997-1999.
  • Visiting Professor at Université de Paris XI (Paris-Sud, Orsay, France), 2000.
  • Invited Professor in the General Physics Department of Vilnius Pedagogical University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2009.
  • Member of the board of the "European Group of Atomic Spectroscopy (EGAS) " (EGAS) 1998-2004

Research Activities

  • Computational Atomic Physics, Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy (see my list of publications)
  • Ab initio calculations of atomic transition probabilities, radiative lifetimes, isotope shifts, hyperfine structures, electron affinities.
  • Modelization of large amplitude dynamics in polyatomic molecular spectra: energy levels and line intensities.
  • Coauthor of the BELGian Internal Rotor Program .
  • Coauthor of the ATSP Atomic Structure Package and ATSP2 Large scale, non-relativistic multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock + Breit Pauli atomic structure package. (see Atomic Structure Codes at NIST.)
  • Interdisciplinary research program ARC (1993-97) "The Quantum Keys of Reactivity" , at the frontiers of nuclear, atomic and molecular physics.
  • Action de Recherche Concertée research program ARC (2003-2008) "Atoms and Molecules at High Resolution".
  • Action de Recherche Concertée research program ARC (2008-2013) "Atoms, Molecules and Astmospheres: from Quantum Hamiltonians to satellite missions ".
  • Contributor to the NIST Multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock and Multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock Database (MCHF/MCDHF Collection) ;

Teaching Activities

  • Deuxième licence en sciences chimiques "Rotation et non-rigidité des molécules polyatomiques" CHIM 148 (see Module V)
  • DEA en Sciences CHIM287 "Structures électroniques des atomes : calcul ab initio et spectroscopies"
  • DEA en Physique Théorique ATOM005 (see Module III) "Problèmes théoriques de spectroscopie atomique et moléculaire"
  • Membre du Collège des enseignants des Ecoles Doctorales "Interaction Photon-Matière: Des molécules aux supramolécules" (PHOTOMAT) et "Physique Microscopique et Astrophysique" (MICAS)

Scientific collaborations

  • J. Bieron (Univwersytet Jagiellonski, Krakow, Poland)
  • E. Biémont (Université de Liège, Belgium)
  • C. Blondel (Université Paris-sud, Orsay, France)
  • T. Brage (Lunds Universitet, Lund, Sweden)
  • C. Froese Fischer (Vanderbilt University, USA)
  • G. Gaigalas (ITPA, Vilnius, Lithuania)
  • J.E. Hansen (UVA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  • A. Hibbert (Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland)
  • J. Hougen (NIST, Gaithersburg, USA)
  • P. Indelicato (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
  • I. Kleiner (Université de Paris Sud, Orsay, France)
  • P. Jönsson (Malmö University, Sweden)
  • B.R. Judd (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA)
  • P.-A. Malmqvist (Lunds University, Lund, Sweden)
  • J. Olsen (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
  • D. Sundholm (University of Helsinki, Finland)
  • P.-H. Heenen , M. Herman, J. Liévin, N. Vaeck (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)