Review of 2016

2016 has come and gone. 2017 eagerly awaits getting acquainted. But first we look back one last time, trying to turn this into a tradition. What have I done during the last year of some academic merit.

Publications: +4

• Mechanochemical route to the synthesis of nanostructured Aluminium nitride
  Seyyed Amin Rounaghi, Hossein Eshghi, Sergio Scudino, Anastasia Vyalikh, Danny E. P. Vanpoucke, Wolfgang Gruner, Steffen Oswald, Ali-Reza Kiani-Rashid, Mohsen Samadi-Khoshkhoo, Ulrich Scheler, and Jürgen Eckert, Scientific Reports 6, 33375 (2016),
  doi: 10.1038/srep33375
• First-Principles Study of Antisite Defect Configurations in ZnGa₂O₄:Cr Persistent Phosphors
  Arthur De Vos, Kurt Lejaeghere, Danny E.P. Vanpoucke, Jonas J. Joos, Philippe F. Smet, and Karen Hemelsoet, Inorg. Chem. 55(5), 2402–2412 (2016),
  doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b02805
• Computational Materials Science: Where Theory Meets Experiments
  Danny E. P. Vanpoucke, ICACC 2015 conference proceeding, Developments in Strategic Ceramic Materials: Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings 36(8), 323-334 (2016),
  ISBN: 978-1-119-21173-0
• Doping of CeO₂ as a Tunable Buffer Layer for Coated Superconductors: A DFT Study of Mechanical and Electronic Properties
  Danny E. P. Vanpoucke, ICACC 2015 conference proceeding, Developments in Strategic Ceramic Materials: Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings 36(8), 169-177 (2016),
  ISBN: 978-1-119-21173-0

Completed refereeing tasks: +5

• ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
• The Journal of Physical Chemistry
• Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (2x)
• Diamond and Related Materials

Conferences: +4 (Attended) & + 1 (Organized)

• tUL Life Science Research Day, Bilzen, Belgium, October 6^th, 2016 [poster presentation]
• Colloquium Condensed Matter Science in Porous Frameworks, Groningen, The Netherlands, September 4^th-9^th, 2016 [Organised 2-day colloquium as part of the CMD conference]
• Annual Meeting of the Belgian Physical society, Ghent University, Belgium, May 18^th, 2016 [oral presentation]
• SBDD XXI, Hasselt University, Belgium, March 9^th-11^th, 2016
• Virtual winter school on Computational Chemistry, winterschool.cc, February 3^rd-9^th, 2016 [invited oral presentation]

PhD-students: +2

• Arthur De Vos : (Jan.-Mar., Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium )
• Mohammadreza Hosseini (okt.-… ,Phd student physical chemistry, Tarbiat Modares University, Teheran, Iran)

Current size of HIVE:

• 47K lines of program (code: 70 %)
• 70 files
• 44 (command line) options

Hive-STM program:

• 48 new users (making for a total of 276 users)

And now, upward and onward, a new year, a fresh start.