Happy New Year

2017 has come and gone. 2018 eagerly awaits getting acquainted. But first we look back one last time, trying to turn this into a old tradition. What have I done during the last year of some academic merit.

Publications: +4

• Revisiting the Neutral C-Vacancy in Diamond: Localization of Electrons through DFT+U

  Danny E. P. Vanpoucke, and Ken Haenen

  Diam. Relat. Mater. 79, 60-69 (2017),
  doi: 10.1016/j.diamond.2017.08.009 {IF(2016)=2.561}
• A combined experimental and theoretical investigation of the Al-Melamine reactive milling system: a mechanistic study towards AlN-based ceramics

  Seyyed A. Rounaghi, Danny E. P. Vanpoucke, Hossein Eshghi, Sergio Scudino, Elaheh Esmaeili, Steffen Oswald, and Jürgen Eckert

  J. Alloys Compd. 729, 240-248 (2017),
  doi: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2017.09.168 {IF(2016)=3.133}
• Mechanochemical synthesis of nanostructured metal nitrides, carbonitrides and carbon nitride: A combined theoretical and experimental study

  Seyyed Amin Rounaghi, Danny E. P. Vanpoucke, Hossein Eshghi, Sergio Scudino, Elaheh Esmaeili, Steffen Oswald, and Jürgen Eckert,

  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 19, 12414-12424 (2017),
  doi: 10.1039/C7CP00998D {IF(2015)=4.449}
• Linker Functionalization in MIL-47(V)-R Metal–Organic Frameworks: Understanding the Electronic Structure

  Danny E. P. Vanpoucke,

  J. Phys. Chem. C 121(14), 8014-8022 (2017),
  doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b01491 {IF(2015)=4.509}

Completed refereeing tasks: +8

• The Journal of Physical Chemistry (2x)
• Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (3x)
• Diamond and Related Materials (3x)

Conferences & workshops: +5 (Attended) 

• Int. Conference on Diamond and Carbon Materials (DCM) 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 3^rd-7^th, 2017 [oral presentation]
• Summerschool: “Upscaling techniques for mathematical models involving multiple scales”, Hasselt, Belgium, June 26^th-29^th, 2017 [poster presentation]
• VSC-user day, Brussels, Belgium, June 2^nd, 2017 [poster presentation]
• E-MRS 2017 Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, France, May 22^nd-26^th, 2017 [1 oral + 2 poster presentations]
• SBDD XXII, Hasselt University, Belgium, March 8^th-10^th, 2017 [poster presentation]

PhD-students: +1

• Mohammadreza Hosseini (okt.-… ,Phd student physical chemistry, Tarbiat Modares University, Teheran, Iran)

Bachelor-students: +2

• Asja Vanwetswinkel (3^rd Bach. Phys., Project: Applied Phonons)
• Giel Oosterbos (3^rd Bach. Phys., Project: Ge-V complexes in Diamond)

Current size of HIVE:

• 48.5K lines of program (code: 70 %)
• ~70 files
• 45 (command line) options

Hive-STM program:

• 24 new users (making for a total of 300 users)

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