Education

1996 - 2000 PhD degree in theoretical physics  Utrecht University, the Netherlands
1990 - 1996 Physics undergraduate+MSc           Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Work experience

2010-present HPC Programming Analyst SciNet HPC Consortium, U. Toronto, Canada
2005-2010 Research Associate Dept. Chemistry, U. Toronto, Canada
Oct. 2007 Invited Professor Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France
2002 - 2005 Post-doctoral Associate Rockefeller University, New York, USA
2000 - 2002 Post-doctoral Fellow Dept. Chemistry, U. Toronto, Canada

Teaching experience

2011/2012 Scientific Computing Course Co-Lecturer SciNet HPC Consortium, U. Toronto
2011 Feb: Job Monitoring; Beyond Basic Visualization
Mar: Intro to C++
May: Parallel Programming
Oct: Intro to Parallel I/O 		Lecturer SciNet HPC Consortium, U. Toronto
Fall 2010 Sep: Intro to SciNet, Parallel filesystem &I/O
Oct: Intro to Parallel IO
Nov: Debuggers 		Lecturer SciNet HPC Consortium, U. Toronto
Spring 2009 Introduction to Physical Chemistry Lecturer Dept. Chemistry, U. Toronto
Fall 2008 Foundations of Molecular Dynamics Co-Instructor Dept. Chemistry, U. Toronto
Spring 2007 Introduction to Physical Chemistry (2x) Guest Lecturer (same)
Spring 2007 Modern Physical Chemistry (2x) Guest Lecturer (same)
Fall 2005 Molecular Dynamics and Chemical
Dynamics in Liquids 		Co-Instructor(same)
1993 - 2000 Statistical Physics
Classical Mechanics
Physics for Chemists
Electromagnetism
Dynamical Systems 		Teaching Assistant

 Dept. Physics and
Astronomy, Utrecht U.,
the Netherlands

Memberships of professional organisations

  • Canadian Association of Physicists
  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • Nederlandse Natuurkunde Vereniging (Dutch Physics Society)

Refereeing

  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physical Review E
  • Europhysics Letters
  • Physica A
  • Physica D
  • Physics Letters A
  • Nonlinearity
  • Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
  • Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

References

Invited talks

20 Jul. 2008 Structural and dynamical properties of nanofluids using effective potentials, Sixth Congress of the International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics, Vancouver, Canada
11 Oct. 2007 Quantum free energy differences from non-equilibrium path integral methods, Statistical Physics Out of Equilibrium, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France
18 Jan. 2007 General Properties of Fluctuations of Work and Heat in Non-Equilibrium Systems, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
24 Mar. 2006 Short-Time Fluctuations of Displacements and Work, International Conference on Work, Dissipation, and Fluctuations in Non-equilibrium Physics, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
26 Aug. 2004 Extension of the Fluctuation Theorem: Heat Fluctuations in Langevin Systems, Workshop on Stochastic and deterministic dynamics in equilibrium and nonequilibrium systems, Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, Austria
21 Jul. 2004 Fluctuations of the Heat Exchange with the Environment in Nonequilibrium Systems, CECAM Workshop on Stability, fluctuations and transient behaviour in nonequilibrium systems, Lyons, France
20 May 2003 Work and Heat Fluctuations for a Brownian Particle in a Moving Harmonic Potential, 89th Statistical mechanics conference, Rutgers U., New Jersey, USA
2 Dec. 2003 Extensions of the Fluctuation Theorem - Differences between Work and Heat, Statistical mechanics seminar, Institute of Physical Sciences and Technology, U. of Maryland at College Park, USA
8 Nov. 2002 Measurable Entropy Production for a Dragged Brownian Particle, Chemical Physics Theory Group, Chemistry Department, U. of Toronto, Canada
11 Oct. 2000 Multi-time Correlation Functions in Fluids, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Utrecht U., The Netherlands
28 May 1999 Chaos Theory and Statistical Mechanics --- How to Calculate Lyapunov Exponents for a Hard Sphere System, National Seminar Statistical Mechanics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
29 Apr. 1999 The Dynamics of Gaussian Thermostats in the Thermodynamic Limit, Scientific meeting of the Association for Mathematical Physics of the FOM (Dutch physics research foundation).  Amersfoort, the Netherlands
21 Nov. 1997 The Largest Lyapunov Exponent for Dilute Gases, Statistical Mechanics Seminar, Institute of Physical Sciences and Technology, University of Maryland at College Park, USA
23 May 1997 Dynamical Characteristics of Hard Sphere Systems, Scientific meeting of the Association for Mathematical Physics of the Dutch research organization the FOM. Amersfoort, the Netherlands

Other talks

08 Jun. 2008 Fluctuations of work, heat and entropy production in non-equilibrium statistical physics, Canadian Association of Physicist Congress, Québec, Canada
13 Oct. 2006 Molecular dynamics of rotating rigid bodies, Dept. of Chemistry, U. of Toronto, Canada
3 Mar. 2006 The Jarzynski Equality: An Overview, Statistical Mechanics Seminar, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada
8 Jul. 2004 Heat and Work Fluctuations in Small Driven Systems with a Heat Bath, 22nd International Conference on Statistical Physics, Bangalore, India
17 May 2004 Power and Heat Fluctuations in Electric Circuits, short talk at the 91st Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
26 Oct. 2001 Kinetic Theory and Chaos, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada
28 Sept. 2001 Many body problems: Chaos, transport and heterogeneities, Chemical Physics Theory Group Symposium, University of Toronto, Canada
21 Jan. 2000 Transport Coefficients and Lyapunov Exponents, Scientific meeting of the Research Community for Statistical Physics of the FOM, Lunteren, the Netherlands
2 Mar. 1998 Connection between Dynamical Systems Theory and Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Workshop on Disordered Dynamical Systems, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik Komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany
6 Nov. 1997 Largest Lyapunov Exponent for Dilute Many Particle Systems, Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyons, France
3 Dec. 1996 Lyapunov Exponents of Hard Disk Systems, ESI-semester dynamical systems with singularities, Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, Austria

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