Hendrik Jan Monkhorst

Born: 13 October 1938, Kampen, The Netherlands

Education

1.
Ph.D (Theoretical Chemistry), University of Groningen, 1968, The Netherlands
Professional Record
1.
1983-present, Professor of Physics and Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
2.
1982-1983, Associate Director of the Quantum Theory Project.
3.
1982-1983, Associate Professor of Physics and Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
4.
1978-1982, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
5.
1975-1978, Associate Research Professor, Physics Department, University of Utah.
6.
Summer 1974, Visiting Professor, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
7.
1973-1975, Assistant Research Professor, Physics Department, University of Utah.
8.
1972-1973, Senior Research Associate, Physics Department, University of Utah.
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1971-1972, Research Fellow, Institute "Rudjer Boskovic," Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia.
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1968-1971, Research Associate and Associate Instructor, Physics Department, University of Utah.
11.
1965-1968, Research Assistant, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Awards and Honors
1.
Hercules Powder Company Award for Outstanding Research in Physics, 1970
2.
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1991
Research Interests
1.
Quantum Chemistry: The Electron Correlation Problem.
2.
Molecular Physics: Beyond the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation.
3.
Condensed Matter Physics: (Super)conducting Polymers.
4.
Nuclear Fusion Physics: Muon Catalyzed Fusion, Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor.
Publications
1.
2 books: one co-authored, one co-edited.
2.
150 papers: refereed and Conference proceedings, mostly co-authored with collaborators.
3.
4 book reviews.
4.
1 patent: filed September 11, 1995 (with N. Rostoker): "Fusion Reactor that Produces Net Power from the p11B Reaction".