Name: Gunnar Nyman
Date of birth: April 4, 1957
Business address Department of Chemistry, Göteborg University,
SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
Phone: +46 31 7722270
Fax: + 46 31 167194
E-mail: nyman@
Civil status: Married, three children (born 1989, 1991 and 1995)
Degrees
- 1981 Bachelor of Science, Göteborg University
- 1982 Master of Science, University of California at San Diego, California
- 1987 Ph.D. (Fil. dr.), Göteborg University
- 1992 Docent, Göteborg University
Post-doc positions
- 1987 Australian Defense Force Academy, Canberra, Australien
- 1987-88 University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- 1992-94 Cambridge University, England
Academic positions
- 1989-92 Research associate (Forskarassistent), Göteborg University.
- 1994-95 Acting Senior lecturer, Göteborg University.
- 1995-2001 Senior lecturer, Göteborg University.
- 1999-2003 Head of Physical Chemistry, Göteborg University.
- 2001-2003 Director of Studies in Physical Chemistry.
- 2001- Professor of Physical Chemistry, Göteborg University.
- 2004-2006 Part-time appointment at Bielefeld University, Germany.
Commisions of trust
At GöteborgUniversity I have for instance been a member of the board of the Faculty of Science, the board of Chemistry, the board of studies in Chemistry, the board of the Department for Gender Studies.
Supervision of doctoral students
Jointly with Professor. L. Holmlid I have supervised:
Name |
Ph.D. |
Title of thesis |
Jan Davidsson |
1988 |
Molecular Beam Spectroscopy and Reaction Dynamics |
Jan Pettersson |
1990 |
Excitation of atoms and molecules at surfaces |
Ulla Wilhelmsson |
1991 |
Ion-Molecule Reactions in Astrochemistry |
Jan Davidsson is professor in Physical Chemistry at Uppsala University. Jan Pettersson is professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Göteborg University. Ulla Wilhelmsson´s details after a post-doc at Yorktown Heights, USA are unknown to me.
I have been assistant supervisor for part of three doctoral students' work, main supervisor being Professor S. Nordholm, viz:
Name |
Ph.D |
Title of thesis |
Liu Ming |
1995 |
Dynamical and Statistical Studies of Collisional Energy Transfer |
Kim Bolton |
1996 |
Molecular Dynamics Studies of Vibrational Energy Transfer and Unimolecular Reaction Rates |
Roman Krems |
2002 |
Mechanisms of vibrational and electronic transitions in atom-molecule and atom-atom collisions |
Zhigang Sun |
2005 |
Femtochemistry of small molecules using quantum wavepacket calculations |
Kim Bolton is associate professor at Göteborg University/Senior Lecturer at Borås University College. Roman Krems is professor at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Liu Ming´s details after a post-doc in the US are unknown to me.
I have been principal supervisor for the following Ph.D. student:
Name |
Ph.D. |
Title of thesis |
Huagen Yu |
2000 |
Quantum reactive scattering for polyatomic systems |
Girts Barinovs |
2002 |
Time dependent wavepackets- applications to spectroscopy, eigenstates and ultrafast dynamics |
Stefan Andersson |
2002 |
Atom-Diatom Reactive Scattering- Potential Energy Surfaces and Dynamics |
Carina Bäcktorp |
2007 |
A computational study of ultrafast energy relaxation in ice and compounds related to skin allergy |
Huagen Yu is researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Girts Barinovs I lecturer at University of Latvia and Stefan Andersson has a post-doc position.
I am principal supervisor for:
Name |
Lic |
Title of thesis |
Erik Abrahamsson |
2006 |
Classical and Quantum Dynamics of the O + CN reaction |
I am assistant supervisor for two doctoral students.
Network Grants
- I am part of the Marie Curie Research Training network “The Molecular Universe” (5% acceptance). Contact: Xander Tielens (a.g.g.m.tielens@astro.rug.nl).
- I am involved in an EU/INTAS network “Quantum Chaos and Tunneling in Chemical Reactions”. Contact: Gabriel Balint-Kurti (Gabriel.Balint-Kurti@bristol.ac.uk)
- I am part of a larger collaboration Göteborg-Beijing supported by STINT and China.
Miscellaneous
- I frequently act as a referee for several international journals.
- I evaluate research proposals, applications for promotion etc.
- I have been opponent for two doctoral dissertation and am frequently on the evaluating committee at doctoral dissertations.
- I give invited talks at international conferences.
- I consistently get good evaluations on my teaching performance.
- Year 2000 I organized the Fourth National Meeting on Femtochemistry
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