René 's Curriculum Vitae

René de Gelder, Curriculum Vitae

Education and employment

1983-1988 Studies of Chemistry at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
1988 Doctoraal (MS) in Chemistry, with specialization into Coordination/Bioinorganic Chemistry and Structural Chemistry, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
1988-1992 PhD project "Karle-Hauptman Matrices and the Phase Problem in Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction", in the group of Dr. R.A.G. de Graaff and Prof.dr. H. Schenk, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
1992 PhD in Science, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
1993-1995 Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Nijmegen, in the group of Prof. dr. P.T. Beurskens. Project: The development of direct methods and other methods of phase determination for incommensurately modulated crystals.
since 1995 Assistent Professor in Chemical Crystallography, in the group of Prof. dr. A.W. Gal, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Research interests

Chemical crystallography, X-ray diffraction, development of methods for the analysis and interpretation of solid strate structures, crystal engineering, crystallography of supramolecular compounds.

Publications

About 100 publications in refereed journals, 3 book chapters, 2 patents. See also List of publications

Professional activities

President Dutch Association for Crystallography (NVK)
Secretary KNCV-section Inorganic and Physical Chemistry
Guest-member NWO-CW Study group Chemistry of the Solid State and Materials Science
Guest-member NWO-CW Study group Crystal and Structure Research

Memberships in professional and scientific associations

KNCV (Royal Netherlands Chemical Society)
KNCV-section Inorganic and Physical Chemistry
KNCV-section Computer Applications
Dutch Association of Crystallography
European Crystallographic Association

René de Gelder was born in Wissenkerke (Zeeland, The Netherlands) on the 21st of June 1965. In 1986 he graduated from his pre-university education (Atheneum-B) at the "Fioretti-College" in Lisse (Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands).

He studied chemistry at the University of Leyden, the Netherlands where he got his Masters in May 1988. After his studies he worked for four years as a PhD-student in the field of Crystallography at the Department of Structural Chemistry of the University of Leyden under supervision of Prof.dr. H. Schenk. His PhD-research involved the ab initio solution of the phase problem in single-crystal X-ray diffraction for difficult small and medium sized compounds. He received his PhD in december 1992.

After his PhD he worked for two years as a postdoc at the University of Nijmegen where he did research on the development of methods to solve the phase problem for incommensurately modulated structures. From 1995 on he is working as a lecturer in Chemical Crystallography at the University of Nijmegen.