Curriculum vitae of Gunnar Nyman
 

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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