Curriculum vitae

REMACLE
Françoise Fernande Andrée.
Citizenship: Belgian.
Birth date : 18/11/1964.
Address : Département de Chimie, B6c, Université de Liège, B4000 Liège, Belgium.
Tel. : 32-4-3662347, Fax : 32-4-3663413, Email : fremacle@ulg.ac.be

Positions

• Student-assistant, academic years 1984-85 and 1985-86, University of Liège.
• Aspirant of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique Belge at the University of Liège, academic years 1986-90.
• Post-doctoral fellow of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1/07/1990-30/09/1991.
• Chargé de Recherches of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique at the University of Liège, academic years 1991-93.
• Chercheur Qualifié of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique at the University of Liège, 1993-2001.
• Maître de Recherches of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique at University of Liège, 2001-2005.
• Directeur de Recherches of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique at University of Liège, 2005-present.
• Invited Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Chemistry Institute, 2006-present.

Education

• Under-graduate: Licencié en Sciences Chimiques, with the Highest Honors and the congratulations of the Jury, University of Liège, July 1986.
• Graduate : University of Liège, Départment of Chemistry, Molecular Dynamics , Prof. J.-C. Lorquet, 1986-1990.
• Ph.D. : Docteur en Sciences Chimiques, with the Highest Honors and the congratulations of the Jury, Liège University, March 1990.
• Agrégé de l’Enseignement Supérieur (Habilitation thesis) with Unanimity of the Faculty of Sciences, University of Liège, May 2001.

Other academic activities

• Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (2009)
• Foreign member of the evaluation committee of the National Science and Engineering research council (NSERC) of Canada, Chemistry, 2010-2013.
•  Member of the board of the ‘Commité des Sociétés chimiques belges’, 2006-
• Member of the Research Council of the University of Liège, 1999-2006.
• Member of the Physical Chemistry Committee of the Flanders Research Foundation of Belgium (FWO), 2002-2008.
• Vice-President of the Royal Society of Sciences of Liège , 2004-2005.
• President of the Royal Society of Sciences of Liège, 2005-2006.

• Member of the Committee for International Relations, University of Liège, 2003-2006.
• Reviewer for research national foundations (Germany, Holland, Israel, Austria and for NSF (US)).

• Panel expert EC, FP6 and FP7
• Referee for general, chemistry and physics journals.

Awards

• Prize of the best ‘mémoire’ of the Royal Chemical Society of Belgium, July 1986.
• ‘Lauréat du concours des bourses de voyages’, Communauté française de Belgique, 1990.
• Prize of the Foundation for Encouraging Research in Exact Sciences, Liège University, October 1991.
• Prize of the ‘Concours Annuel’ 1991 of the Royal Academy of Belgium, Class of Sciences, Group III/A, October 1991.
• Lauréate du Prix Louis d’Or de la Société Royales des Sciences de Liège 1996.
• Prize of the Friends of the University of Liège, Nov 2002.

Research interests:
Theoretical Physical Chemistry – Computational Chemistry

• Molecular logic using intra- and inter- molecular dynamics.
• Attochemistry : control of chemical reactivity by ultrafast optical excitation
• Electronic and transport properties of molecular and nanosystems
• Dynamics of excited states in dense level systems : polyatomic molecules, high molecular Rydberg states, small ionized peptides, arrays of metallic quantum dots.
• Mechanisms of control for unimolecular reactions.

Participation to research projects
European

• Coordinator of the EC FET-Open STREP FP6 project : MOLDYNLOGIC, 2005-2008. Partners : Prof. R. D. Levine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Prof. I. Willner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Prof. K. L. Kompa, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Prof. R. Weinkauf, Dusseldorf University, Prof. J.-P. Sauvage, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg.
• Coordinator of the EC FET Proactive STREP FP7 project : MOLOC : Molecular Logic Circuits, 2008-2011. Partners : Prof. R. D. Levine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Prof. I. Willner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Prof. K. L. Kompa, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Prof. R. Weinkauf, Dusseldorf University, Prof. Th. Halfmann, Darmstadt University, Prof. R. Waser, Jülich Research Centrum, Prof. S. Rogge, TU-Delft.
• FP6 NoE FAME (2005-2008) : Co- leader of the WP Theory and modeling of hybrid nanostructures.
• Partner in the ULg team of the EC master program : FAME Erasmus Mundus

National

• PAI ‘Quantum Effects in Clusters and nanowires’, 2007-2011.

Leader of WP1 : Metallic and oxyde clusters
French Community of Belgium

• Action de Recherches concertées NANOFORCES 2009-2014.

 Leader of the theory WP.

• FRFC 2.4.565.06 .F : Energetics and molecular dynamics of the interaction between metallic clusters and molecules, Partenaire
• FRFC 2.4594.10: Nanoforces (partenaire)

Collaborations

• Prof. R. D. Levine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Prof. I. Willner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Professor J. R. Heath, California Institute of Technology (Pasadena), Chemistry Division, and The California NanoScience Institute, UCLA (Los Angeles) USA.
• Prof. S. Rogge, Kavli Institute, TU-Delft, Nertherland.
•  Prof. M. J. J. Vrakking, Max Born Institute, Berlin, Germany.
• Professor P. Ghosez, Department of Physics, University of Liège, Belgium.
• Professor E. De Pauw, Department  of Chemistry, University of Liège, Belgium.
• Professor B. Leyh, Department of Chemistry, University of Liège, Belgium.
• Professor Anne –Sophie Duwez