Daniel Frenkel#
| Membership Number: | 3551 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www-frenkel.ch.cam.ac.uk |
- 2018- Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2011 – 2015, Head of Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2007 – 2015, 1968 Professor of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1998 – 2013, Professor of Chemistry, University of Amsterdam, NL
- 1987 – 2013, Group/Division Leader, FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, NL
- 1987 - 2007, Professor of Chemistry, Utrecht University, NL
- 1981 – 1986. Lecturer/Reader in Physics, Utrecht University, NL
- 1980 – 1981, Research Scientists, Shell Research, Amsterdam, NL
- 1977 – 1980, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Chemistry, UCLA, CA, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Computational chemistry
- Nucleation phenomena
- Monte Carlo methods
- Statistical mechanics
- Soft matter science
Honours and Awards
- 2021: Liquid Matter Prize, European Physical Society
- 2020: Sheikh Saud lecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA.
- 2020: G.N. Ramachandran Memorial Lecture, S.N. Bose Center, Kolkata
- 2019: Staudinger-Durrer Prize, ETH Zürich
- 2019: Ben May Lecture, Weizmann Institute, Israel.
- 2019: NTNU Lars Onsager Medal and Visiting Professorship
- 2019: Bragg Lecture, University College London
- 2018: President's International Fellowship Initiative Award (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- 2018: C.V. Raman Memorial Lecture 2018, IISc, Bangalore, India.
- 2018: ICTS-Infosys Chandrasekhar Lectures, Bangalore, India
- 2017: Cohen Lectures, Northwestern University, Evanston , IL, USA
- 2016: Elected Honorary Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge
- 2016: Sir Eric Rideal Lecture of the SCI/RSC.
- 2016: Boltzmann Medal (IUPAP)
- 2016: Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)
- 2015: Bakhuis-Roozeboom medal - Netherlands Academy of Sciences
- 2013: Hinshelwood Lectures, Oxford University
- 2012: Associate Fellow of TWAS
- 2012: Spiers Memorial Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2011: Joseph E Hirschfelder Prize, U. Wisconsin at Madison (USA)
- 2011: Concurrent Professor, Nanjing University (China)
- 2010: Soft Matter & Biophysical Chemistry Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2010: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK).
- 2008: Elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- 2008: Awarded ERC Advanced grant.
- 2007: Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics of the American Physical Society
- 2007: Honorary Doctorate, University of Edinburgh (UK)
- 2007: Berni Alder-CECAM prize of the European Physical Society.
- 2006: Elected Foreign Member Royal Society (London).
- 2005: Honorary Professor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology (CN)
- 2000: NWO Spinoza Award (NL)
- 1999: Bourke lecturer & medallist, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK).
- 1998: Elected member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (NL)
