Curriculum Vitae
Stefan Knippenberg
Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology
S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46.8.790.9654
email: sknippen_at_kth.se
Nationality: Belgian
Date of birth: July 11th, 1981
Employment history
- September 2014 -…: Biträdande Lektor / Assistant Professor, Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden).
Docent i teoretisk fotokemi och fotobiologi (March 2017)
- May 2013 – August 2014: Fellow of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientique (FNRS), Chargé de Recherches, group of Prof. Dr. F. Remacle, Theoretical Physical Chemistry, Université de Liège (Belgium).
Research fields: photoionization and –dissociation in strong and rapidly changing electric fields, spectroscopy, optical probes.
- 16 August 2013 – 15 September 2013: Group of Prof. Dr. E. J. Baerends, Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
Research fields: time dependent density matrix functional theory. - January 2014: Group of Prof. Dr. P. Trouillas, INSERM UMR850, Faculté de Pharmacie, Limoges (France)
Research fields: lipid bilayer membranes, molecular dynamics.
- February 2013 – April 2013: Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation, group of Prof. Dr. Andreas Dreuw, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Interdisciplinary center for scientific computing, Universität Heidelberg (Germany).
Research field: hyperpolarisabilities.
- February 2011 – January 2013: Fellow of Marie Curie COFUND and the Belgian Science Policy Office (Belspo), group of Prof. Dr. R. Lazzaroni, Prof. Dr. D. Beljonne and Prof. Dr. J. Cornil, Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, Université de Mons (Belgium).
Research fields: optical probes, biomembranes, lipid rafts, DNA.
- January 2013 and 26 February – 23 March 2012: Group of Prof. Dr. P. Trouillas, Laboratoire de chimie des substances naturelles, Faculté de Pharmacie, Limoges (France)
Research fields: lipid bilayer membranes, molecular dynamics. - September 2012 – December 2012: Group of Prof. Dr. J.-L. Brédas, School of chemistry and biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (United States of America).
Research fields: second and third hyperpolarizabilities, cyanines. - September 2011 – December 2011: Group of Prof. Dr. E. J. Baerends, Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang (South Korea).
Research fields: time dependent density matrix functional theory.
- December 2009 – January 2011: Post-doctoral researcher, group of Prof. Dr. Andreas Dreuw, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Germany).
Research fields: excitation, two-photon absorption, algebraic diagrammatic construction scheme, time dependent density functional theory.
- January 2008 – November 2009: Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation, group of Prof. Dr. Andreas Dreuw, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Germany).
- October 2007 – December 2007: Post-doctoral researcher, group of Prof. Dr. Andreas Dreuw, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Germany).
- October 2003 – September 2007: Ph. D. fellowship, research group Theoretical Chemistry, department SBG, Hasselt University (Belgium).
Studies
- 2017: Swedish degree of 'Docent' ('Docent i teoretisk fotokemi och fotobiologi', 15 March 2017)
- 2014-2015: Pedagogical training of 15 cpts in higher education focusing on Ph.D. supervision, supervision on degree project work in bachelor and master studies, assessment criteria and undergraduate teaching (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; certificate: 26 November 2015)
- 2003-2007: Ph.D. in Chemical Physics at Hasselt University (Belgium)
Date of defence: 1st October 2007.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. M. S. Deleuze and Prof. Dr. J.-P. François
Research fields: ionization, Green’s function theory, electron momentum spectroscopy, Penning ionization electron spectroscopy, Dyson orbitals, Kohn-Sham orbitals, cage compounds, conformationally versatile molecules. Specialization courses in chemical bonding, spectroscopic techniques and computational methods at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium).
- 2001-2003: Master student in Physics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Master’s thesis in Theoretical Physics (High Energy Physics): “p-branen in supergravitatie: veralgemeningen naar oplossingen met een kosmologische constante”. Supervisors: Dr. B. Janssen and Prof. Dr. W. Troost.
- 1999-2001: Bachelor student in Physics at Hasselt University (Belgium)
Prizes and awards
2 May 2008: “Honorable Mention Award” in the “2008 IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists”
Jury
- 13 September 2017, PhD defence: “Computational modelling of enzyme selectivity”, Paul Bauer, Uppsala (Sweden), member of the jury
- 15 September 2015, mid-term defence (Swedish “Licentiat”): “Computational control of enzyme selectivity”, Paul Bauer, Uppsala (Sweden)
- 10 June 2013, Ph.D. defence: “Theoretical study of the electronic structure and properties of model polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons”, Matija Huzak, UHasselt (Belgium), main opponent
- 13 December 2013, Ph.D. defence: “Electron momentum spectroscopy of pyrimidine, 1-butene, and tetrahydrofurane”, Seiyed Hamid Reza Shojaei Kohnehshahri, UHasselt (Belgium), main opponent
Main organizer
3rd European Joint Theory/Experiment Meeting on Membranes, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (30 Sept-2 Oct 2015)
Visits to foreign research groups
Visits to groups in Germany, France and China
Referee
Referee assignments for J. Am. Chem. Soc., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., Pharmacol. Res., J. Chem. Phys., J. Phys. Chem., Eur. Phys. J., J. Photochem. Photobiol., Bioorg. Med. Chem., C. R. Chimie, Chin. J. Chem., Mol. Phys., CompTC, J. Mol. Mod.,...
Teaching experience
KTH Royal Institute of Technology: teacher in courses "Programmering i Python", "Molecular Modeling" and “Fysikalisk Biokemi”, supervisor of bachelor theses prepared by three groups of 5 students (spring 2015, 2017 and 2018), supervisor of 2 postdoctoral researchers
J. W. Goethe Universität Frankfurt (2007-2010): Teaching assistant in 2 bachelor courses per year; supervising tutor of 13 internships and 2 bachelor theses
Languages
Dutch (mother tongue), English & French (talking/reading/writing), German (talking/reading),
Swedish (higher intermediate)
Memberships
Fakultetskollegium at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, European Joint Theory Experiment Meeting on Membranes (scientific committee), the theoretical section of the Swedish Chemical Society (chairman of the selection committee), the german agTC (social media team), the CoTXS network, the Belgian Physical Society, the ACS, COST actions CoDECS and Xlic.
Leisure time
Youth movement group interested in astronomy, hiking, brassband
