Education

• 1957-1962 HBS-B, Openbaar Lyceum "Schoonoord", Zeist, NL.

• 1962-1968 Master Degree Chemistry, Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL.
  

  Specialization:

  • Molecule Spectroscopy, Prof.drs. M.P. Groenewegen
  • X-ray Crystallography, Prof.dr. A.F. Peerdeman
  • Theoretical Physics, Prof.dr. N. Nijboer

• 1968-1975 PhD with Prof.dr. A.F. Peerdeman (Utrecht University) on a thesis entitled:

  Some Aspects and Results of the Application of Direct Methods in X-Ray Crystallography

• 1970&1972 Intensive and explorative International (summer) workshops on Direct Methods (Orsay, France) around and using a European (at that time) Supercomputer.

Employment

• 1968-1971: Utrecht University: PhD-student

• 1971-2009: National Research Council/Utrecht University

Current Qualification

• 2000-2009: Professor in Chemical and Computational Crystallography (Utrecht University)

• 2009-?: Emeritus, Utrecht University.

Oratie

• Oratie text (in Dutch)(pdf)

• Oratie PowerPoint

Past and Current Functions

• Research leader of the National Single Crystal Service Facility, based at Utrecht University.

• Since 1995 Co-Editor of the IUCr-journal Acta Cryst. C

• Development of crystallographic validation software (IUCr)

• Since 1996 Member (Chairman 2002-2008) of the IUCr-computing Commission

• Since 1990 Member (Chairman 2000-2009) of the Computing Commission of the Eur.Cryst.Ass.

Research Interests

• Single crystal structure determinations of organic, inorganic, organometallic and coordination compounds.

• Development of Crystallographic Software (for Chemical Crystallography)

• Automation

• Automated Validation of Single Crystal Studies.

• Twinning, Missed & Pseudosymmetry (Z' > 1)

• Intermolecular interactions/packing

• Molecular Graphics

International Memberships

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)

• European Crystallographic Association

• American Crystallographic Association

• American Chemical Society

• British Crystallographic Association

Award

Award Lecture Article (pdf)

Teaching

Research Output

• The program PLATON - "A Multipurpose Crystallographic Tool"

• (Co)author of 1297 published papers since 1971. (87453 Citations, H-index = 95, D-Index = 112)

• (Co)author of over 2843 crystal structures in the Cambridge Crystallographic Database.

(Digital Photograph by the late Lachlan Cranswick, Edinburgh, BCA-Meeting, April 2000)

Last update: 15-Oct-2024