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)
Useful links
- The NIST reference on Constants, Units and Uncertainty: CODATA recommended values of the Fundamental Physical Constants
- The WebElements periodic table of elements
- The Brussels Airport official website
- The Currency website
Some pictures...
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One of my very first international meetings: Emile Biémont, myself and Jorgen E. Hansen, Tucson, Arizona, 1979. |
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Jorgen E. Hansen and myself at the 18th EGAS (Marburg), 1986. |
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