Solvay Workshop on "New Frontiers in Atomic, Nuclear, Plasma and Astrophysics", 25-27 November 2019

Conférence ALTAÏR : "L’Atome : un outil merveilleux pour sonder et comprendre notre Univers", 22 avril 2023

Michel Godefroid

Scientific Career

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 1980.
• Agrégé de l'Enseignement Supérieur en Physique Atomique et Moléculaire (Habilitation), ULB, 1992.
• Research Associate at Vanderbilt University (Prof. C. Froese Fischer, Nashville, TN, USA) 1981.
• Research Associate of the Belgian FNRS (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique), 1982-92.
• Senior Research Associate of the Belgian FNRS, 1992-96.
• Visiting Professor at Queen's University of Belfast, U.K., 1997-1999.
• Visiting Professor at Université de Paris XI (Paris-Sud, Orsay, France), 2000.
• Research Director of the Belgian FNRS, 1996-2002.
• Member of the board of the "European Group of Atomic Spectroscopy" (EGAS) 1998-2004
• Honorary Research Director of the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgian F.R.S.-FNRS), 2002-.
• Invited Professor in the General Physics Department of Vilnius Pedagogical University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2009.
• Full Professor at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 2002-2019.
• Co-director of the Laboratoire de Chimie Quantique et Photophysique, 2002-2019.

Research interests

• Computational Atomic Physics, Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy.
• Correlation and relativistic effects in atomic systems, from negative ions to highly charged ions.
• Relaxation effects in atomic processes.
• Ab initio calculations of atomic transition probabilities, radiative lifetimes, isotope shifts, hyperfine structures, electron affinities, polarizabilities.
• Forbidden transitions: hyperfine-induced and two-photon transitions.
• Methodological and code developments for computational atomic structures: biorthonormal transformations, Partitioned Correlation Function Interaction approach.
• Operator techniques and group theory in atomic and molecular physics.
• Applications to astrophysics,  plasma physics and nuclear physics.
• Modelization of large amplitude dynamics in polyatomic molecular spectra: energy levels and line intensities.

Research activities

• Coauthor of the ATSP Atomic Structure Package and ATSP2 Large scale, non-relativistic multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock + Breit Pauli atomic structure package. (see Atomic Structure Codes at NIST).
• Coauthor of the BELGian Internal Rotor Program .
• Interdisciplinary research program ARC (1993-97) "The Quantum Keys of Reactivity" , at the frontiers of nuclear, atomic and molecular physics.
• Action de Recherche Concertée research program ARC (2003-2008) "Atoms and Molecules at High Resolution".
• Action de Recherche Concertée research program ARC (2008-2013) "Atoms, Molecules and Astmospheres: from Quantum Hamiltonians to satellite missions ".
• IAP-VII Network (2012-2017) "The Belgian Research Initiative on eXotic nuclei for atomic, nuclear and astrophysics studies " (BriX) " - see the BELSPO Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme (PAI) .
• Contributor to the NIST Multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock and Multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock Database (MCHF/MCDHF Collection) .
• Member of the "International collaboration on Computational Atomic Structure " (CompAS).
• Excellence of Science FNRS & FWO Research Project (EOS) ``Heavy Element Research for Nuclear, Atomic and Astrophysics Studies'' (EVEREST), (EOS-O022818F, 2018-2021), coordinated by Pieter Van Duppen (KULeuven, Nuclear spectroscopy). Other Co-PIs: Riccardo Raabe (KULeuven, Nuclear reactions), Stephane Goriely and Sophie Van Eck (ULB, Nuclear Astrophysics) (Excellence of Science FNRS & FWO Research Project (EOS).

Publications

• see here.
• see my publications in Google Scholar, or my list of publications in pdf.

Passed and current scientific collaborations

• Thierry Bastin (Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium)
• Jacques Bauche (Université Paris-sud, Orsay, France)
• Jacek Bieroń (Univwersytet Jagiellonski, Krakow, Poland)
• Emile Biémont (Université de Liège, Belgium)
• Christophe Blondel et Christian Delsart (Université Paris-sud, Orsay, France)
• Tomas Brage (Lunds Universitet, Lund, Sweden)
• Jörgen Ekman (Malmö University, Sweden)
• Stephan Fritzsche (Helmholtz Institute Jena & Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut of the University of Jena, Germany)
• Charlotte Froese Fischer (UBC, Vancouver, Canada)
• Gediminas Gaigalas (ITPA, Vilnius, Lithuania)
• Jorgen E. Hansen (UVA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Alan Hibbert (Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland)
• Jon Hougen (NIST, Gaithersburg, USA)
• Thérèse Huet (PhLAM, Université de Lille 1, France)
• Paul Indelicato (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
• Isabelle Kleiner (Laboratoire Inter-universitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques - LISA, Paris 12, Créteil, France )
• Per Jönsson (Malmö University, Sweden)
• Brian R. Judd (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA)
• Per Ake Malmqvist (Lunds University, Lund, Sweden)
• José Marques (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
• Messaoud Nemouchi (USTHB, LEQ, Alger, Algérie)
• Gerda Neyens (KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium)
• Jeppe Olsen (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
• Patrick Palmeri (UMons, Mons, Belgium)
• Pascal Quinet (UMons, Mons, Belgium)
• José Paulo Santos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
• Dage Sundholm (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Piet Van Duppen (KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium)
• Daniel Baye, Réginald Colin, Marcel Demeur, Stéphane Goriely, Paul-Henri Heenen, Michel Herman, Jacky Liévin, Alain Jorissen, Nathalie Vaeck, S. Van Eck, Georges Verhaegen (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Former PhD students

• Isabelle Kleiner (1989, with M. Herman)
• Thérèse Huet (1990, with M. Herman)
• Nathalie Vaeck (1990)
• Fabienne Vanhorenbeke (1990, with M. Herman)
• Guy Van Meulebeke (1994)
• Abdelatif Aboussaïd (1996)
• Abdelilah Yousfi (2001)
• Alex Borgoo (VUB/ULB, 2009, with P. Geerlings)
• Thomas Carette (2010)
• Simon Verdebout (2012)
• Cédric Nazé (2012)
• Livio Filippin (2017)
• Sacha Schiffmann (2021)

Former Post-doctoral students

• Antonella Karlson
• Oliver Scharf
• Jiguang Li
• Kai Wang
• Ran Si

Former Teaching Activities

• Bachelier en sciences chimiques - troisième année [CHIM3] CHIM-F304 "Structures et symétries moléculaires"
• Bachelier en sciences physiques - troisième année [BA-PHYS] PHYS-F306 " Physique nucléaire, atomique et moléculaire"
• Master en sciences chimiques (cours du tronc commun) CHIM-F448 "Spectroscopies moléculaires"
• Master en sciences chimiques (à option) CHIM-F400 "Applications de la théorie des groupes en chimie"
• Master en sciences chimiques (à option) CHIM-F452 "Structures de vibration-rotation"
• Master en sciences physiques (à option) PHYS-F441 "Spectroscopie nucléaire, atomique et moléculaire théorique"
• Master en ingénieur civil physicien - première année [IRPH4T/H045] PHYS-H404 "Physique atomique et moléculaire"

Curriculum Vitae

• Short version
• Full version

Useful links

• The ECT* workshop on "The interplay between atomic and nuclear physics to study exotic nuclei", Trento, August 24-27, 2015.
  
• The Hartree-Fock method on Scholarpedia (the peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia)
• The NIST reference on Constants, Units and Uncertainty: CODATA recommended values of the Fundamental Physical Constants
• " Developments in the Quark Model of the f Shell ", a nice talk by Brian R. Judd
• The WebElements periodic table
• The NIST periodic table
• The Brussels Airport official website
• A currency website

Contact

Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry and Atmospheric Remote Sensing (SQUARES) (https://squares.ulb.be//),
Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP160/09
50 Av. F.D. Roosevelt, B-1050 Belgium
Phone: +32 (0)2 650 24 17
E-mail