Daan Frenkel | |
|---|---|
 Frenkel in 2000 | |
| Born | 1948 (age 76–77)[2] |
| Alma mater | University of Amsterdam (PhD) |
| Known for | Noro–Frenkel law of corresponding states |
| Awards | Spinoza Prize (2000) ForMemRS (2006) Aneesur Rahman Prize (2007) Fritz London Memorial Lecture (2011) Boltzmann Medal (2016)[1] Lorentz Medal (2022) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge Royal Dutch Shell University of Utrecht University of California, Los Angeles |
| Thesis | Rotational relaxation of linear molecules in dense noble gases (1977) |
| Doctoral students | Marjolein Dijkstra |
| Website | www |
Daan FrenkelForMemRS MAE[3] (born 1948,Amsterdam) is a Dutchcomputational physicist in theDepartment of Chemistry at theUniversity of Cambridge.[4][5][2][6]
Frenkel completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 1977 in experimental physical chemistry.[7][8][2]
Frenkel worked aspostdoctoral research fellow in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),[citation needed] subsequently atShell and at theUniversity of Utrecht.[2]
Between 1987 and 2007, Frenkel carried out his research at theFOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam where he has been employed since 1987. In the same period, he was appointed (part-time) professor at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam. From 2011 to 2015 he was Head of the Department of Chemistry at theUniversity of Cambridge. Since 2007 he is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.[2][9]
Frenkel has co-authored together with Berend SmitUnderstanding Molecular Simulation, which has grown into a handbook used worldwide[citation needed] by aspiring computational physicists.[10]
In 2000 he was one of three winners of the DutchSpinoza Prize.[11] In 2008 he was appointed aFellow ofTrinity College, Cambridge. He is a member of theRoyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998),[12] theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008), andThe World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in 2012.[citation needed] He was elected aForeign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2006.In 2016 he was elected as a foreign associate of theNational Academy of Sciences.[13] In 2007 he received theAneesur Rahman Prize from theAmerican Physical Society (APS)[14] and the Berni J Alder CECAM prize.[15] In 2010 he received the Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award from theRoyal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK.[16]
He received the 2016Boltzmann Medal[17] and the 2022Lorentz Medal.[18] Asteroid12651 Frenkel, discovered by astronomers during the thirdPalomar–Leiden trojan survey in 1977, was named in his honor in 2018.
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