Happy New Year

2019 has come and gone. 2020 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: +3 (and currently +5 submitted)

• Can Europium Atoms form Luminescent Centres in Diamond: A combined Theoretical-Experimental Study

  Danny E. P. Vanpoucke, Shannon S. Nicley, Jorne Raymakers, Wouter Maes, and Ken Haenen,

  Diam. Relat. Mater. 94, 233-241 (2019),
  doi: 10.1016/j.diamond.2019.02.024 {IF(2017)=2.232}
• Synthesis, characterization and thermodynamic stability of nanostructured ε-iron carbonitride powder prepared by a solid-state mechanochemical route

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

  J. Alloys Compd. 778, 327-336 (2019),
  doi: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2018.11.007 {IF(2017)=3.779 }
• Predicting Partial Atomic Charges in Siliceous Zeolites

  Jarod J. Wolffis, Danny E. P. Vanpoucke, Amit Sharma, Keith V. Lawler, and Paul M. Forster,

  Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 277, 184-196 (2019),
  doi: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2018.10.028 {IF(2017)=3.649}

Completed refereeing tasks: +9

• Applied Physics Letters
• Journal of Physics Communication
• Super Conducting Science and Technology
• Crystals
• Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (2x)
• Diamond and Related Materials (3x)

Conferences & workshops: +7 (Attended) 

• Consortium meeting D-NL-HIT, Hochschule Niederrhein, Krefeld, Germany, September 19^th 2019
• Workshop: Coatings Technology & Application of Machine Learning, Hochschule Niederrhein, Krefeld, Germany, September 2^nd-6^th , 2019
• Summer School: “Let’s Talk Science”, Antwerp, Belgium, July 2^nd, 2019 [invited plenary talk]
• Summer School on Data Science, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, June 26^th-28^th,  2019
• VSC-user day, Brussels, Belgium, June 4^th, 2019 [poster presentation]
• Belgian Physical Society annual meeting 2019, ULB, Brussels, May 22^nd, 2019 [poster presentation]
• SBDD XXIV, Hasselt University, Belgium, March 13^th-15^th, 2019

Science Communication Events: +3  

• Casting Keynotes TEDxUHasselt:”The Virtual Lab”, November 26th, 2019 [first prize, TEDx talk 2020]
• Summer School: “Let’s Talk Science”, Antwerp, Belgium, July 2^nd, 2019 [invited plenary talk]
• Universiteit van Vlaanderen: “Kan jij met je computer een snellere smartphone ontwikkelen”, February 19^th, 2019 [Live presentation at UvV, Online April 1^st]

Research Stay: +1           With Prof. Klauss-Uwe Koch, Westfälishe Hochschule, Recklinghausen, Germany, July 29^th – August 2^nd, 2019

PhD-students: +1             Guillaume Emerick (September 2019-August 2023,PhD student UHasselt-UNamur Project, Belgium, Awarded grant for this project)

Bachelor-students: +1   Siebe Frederix (3^rd Bach. Phys., Project: Atoms in Molecules based on force partitioning)

Positions: +1                         Started working on Machine Learning at AMIBM of Maastricht University

Current size of HIVE:

• Finally started a public version of HIVE at github: HIVE 4.x   (3.5K lines, 6 commands available)
• 60K lines of program (code: 70 %)
• ~90 files
• 49 (command line) options

Hive-STM program:

• 44 new users in  2019 (making for a total of 375 users)

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