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Review of 2024

Happy 2025

2023 and 2024 have been an intense ride, with both the materiomics program, the tenure track and the research group. Since the previous overview in 2022, the QuATOMs group has seen some growth with the arrival of three new members (Pauline Castenetto, Thijs van Wijk, and Aylin Melan). In addition, Emerick Guillaume defended his PhD on the study of diamond growth.

These are not the only things which happened the last two years, so let us look back at 2023 and 2024 one last time, keeping up with  tradition.

1. Publications: +4 (and currently a handful in progress)

2. Cover publication: +1

Cover Nature Reviews Physics: Accuracy of DFT

3. Project proposals accepted: +2

  • QuantumLignin: Elucidating the interactions of lignin building blocks with their environment for the creation of additive models by means of quantum mechanical modelling.
  • AI-accelerated quantum mechanical modelling of the optical properties of semiconductor materials: from colour centres in diamond to transition-metal oxides.

4. Completed refereeing tasks: +20

  • ACS Photon
  • Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (2x)
  • Philosophical Transactions (2x)
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2x)
  • Journal of Physical Chemistry (3x)
  • Diamond and Related Materials (11x)

5. Conferences & seminars: +7/+1 (Attended & Organised)

  • SBDD XXVII & SBDD XXVIII, Hasselt University, Belgium, March 15th-17th, 2023 & February 28th-March 1st, 2024 [poster presentations, PhD students & MSc student]
  • EAB-workshop on AI in Higher Education, UHasselt, Belgium, April 24th, 2024 [oral presentation]
  • DFT-2024: 20th International Conference on Density Functional Theory and its Applications, Paris, France, August 25th-30th, 2024 [oral presentation]
  • E-MRS Spring meeting 2023 & 2024, Strassbourg, France, May 29th-June 2nd, 2023 & May 27th-31st, 2024 [oral presentations]
  • Summer School: “Materiomics: Innovative Materials From Healthcare Across Quantum To Sustainable Technologies”, UHasselt, Belgium, September 4th-6th, 2024 [member of Organizating Committee; seminar]
  • NISM seminar: “Extreme Machine Learning – When the average model knows best (Prof. L. Henrard), UNamur, Belgium, September 12th, 2024 [invited seminar]

6. Supervised students:

  • BSc Projects Physics: 4
  • MSc Projects Materiomics: 3
  • Internships: 2

7. Hive-STM program:

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

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Review of 2017

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

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 3rd-7th, 2017 [oral presentation]
  • Summerschool: “Upscaling techniques for mathematical models involving multiple scales”, Hasselt, Belgium, June 26th-29th, 2017 [poster presentation]
  • VSC-user day, Brussels, Belgium, June 2nd, 2017 [poster presentation]
  • E-MRS 2017 Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, France, May 22nd-26th, 2017 [1 oral + 2 poster presentations]
  • SBDD XXII, Hasselt University, Belgium, March 8th-10th, 2017 [poster presentation]

PhD-students: +1

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

Bachelor-students: +2

Current size of HIVE:

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

Hive-STM program:

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

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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

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)

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:

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

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Review of 2015

With 2015 having past on moving quickly toward oblivion, and 2016 freshly knocking at our door, it is time to look back and contemplate what we have done over the course of the previous year.

Publications: +5

 

Journal covers:+1Cover image CrystEngComm 2015 Vol 17 Issue 45

 

Completed refereeing tasks: +11

  • ACS Catalysis
  • Frontiers in Physics (2x)
  • Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
  • Proceedings for 39th International Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics & Composites
  • Applied Physics Letters (2x)
  • Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing
  • Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism (2x)
  • Surface Science

 

Conferences: +3 (Attended) & + 1 (Organized)

 

Master-students: +1

  • Arthur De Vos : Combined theoretical-experimental study of chromium doped zinc gallate phosphor

 

Jury member of PhD-thesis committee: +1

  • Ir. Yuanyuan Guan
    Title: Development of a method to determine the solubility ranges of intermetallic compounds in metal-metal connections
    PhD candidate at KU Leuven with Prof. Dr. Ir. Nele Moelans
    Department of Materials Engineering

Current size of HIVE:

  • 44K lines of program (code: 71 %)
  • 64 files
  • 40 (command line) options

Hive-STM program:

 

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

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