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M. Xavier Gonze

SST/EPL - Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain
SST/IMCN - Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences (IMCN)
SST/IMCN/NAPS - Nanoscopic Physics (NAPS)

Address
	NAPS - Chemin des étoiles 8 bte L7.03.01 à 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
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NAPS
	Phone :	010 47 20 76
	Building :	Parc Meteo; Floor 00; Office A 036; Site Louvain-la-Neuve

Research activities : first-principles calculations of high-technology materials properties at the nanoscale, e.g. for photovoltaics or LED ; software development and numerical techniques : initiator of the ABINIT software project (more than one thousand users world wide).

Author of about 140 publications. More than 7500 citations in the litterature.

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Degrees

year	degree title	institution
1981	Candidat ingénieur civil	Université catholique de Louvain
1984	Ingénieur civil physicien	Université catholique de Louvain
1985	Licencié en sciences pour le groupe des sciences physiques	Université catholique de Louvain
1990	Docteur en sciences appliquées	Université catholique de Louvain

Carreer in brief ...

1990-1992 Visiting scientist Cornell University

1992-2004 Research Associate of the FNRS

2004-... Professor at the UCL (prof. ordinaire from 2008)

Recent Awards

Fellow of the American Physical Society (2007, Division of Computational Physics)

Wernaers prize 2008

Quinquennal prize of the FRS-FNRS in Applied exact science for the period 2006-2010, delivered by his majesty the king of Belgium Albert II on Nov. 23, 2010.

Elected member of the Royal Academy of Belgium (Sciences division), in 2011.

Courses

Academic Year 2011 - 2012
LFSAB	1503	Project 3
LMAPR	1491	Supplements in physics
LMAPR	1492	Materials physics
LMAPR	2014	Physics of Functional Materials
LMAPR	2015	Physics of Nanostructures
LMAPR	2451	Study of materials at the atomic scale
LNANO	2109	Simulations atomistiques et nanoscopies (P,-,-,-,M) (MAPR 2451)

Research activities

- Study of dynamical, thermodynamical, dielectric and electronic properties of the crystalline state and nanostructures within density-functional theory and many-body perturbation theory.

- Applications to high-technology materials (for photovoltaic applications, LED, radiative environments, nano-scale electronics ...)

- Software development and numerical techniques : initiator/coordinator of the ABINIT software project (more than one thousand users worlwide), iterative techniques for electronic structure calculations.

Bibliometry

As of 2011, about 140 publications, with more than 7500 citations in the international litterature.

Biography