Jean Willy André Cleymans#

Obituary, Krzysztof Redlich, Helmut Satz and the ALICE collaboration, CERN

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Curriculum vitae#

Education

• 1970 : Dr.Sc., University of Louvain, Belgium
• 1977 : Habilitation, University of Bielefeld, Germany

Awards

• 1969 Alexander von Humboldt fellowship, Aachen, Germany
• 1970 NATO Fellow Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, California
• 1974 CERN Fellow, Geneva, Switzerland
• 1985- A-rated by NRF
• 1993 Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa
• 1994 Fellow of the University of Cape Town (elected on research excellence)
• 1999 Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize
• 2000 Prize of the Polish Ministry of National Education for Research Excellence
• 2003 Prize of the Polish Ministry of National Education and Sports for Outstanding Team Research
• 2005 Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Grant
• 2007 Chairman South Africa - CERN consortium
• 2008 Principal Investigator Flagship Proposal at the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC)

Publications

142 in refereed journals
38 in international conference proceedings
10 in national conference proceedings
1 chapter in a book

Books

Editor of three books.

Recipients of Higher Degrees

Under Jean Willy André Cleymans' supervision 10 students obtained their Ph.D. and 17 their M.Sc. degrees.

Organisation of Conferences

Member of the international organizing committees of the following conferences:

• International Symposium on Strangeness and Quark Matter, held at the Orthodox Academy of Crete, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, September 1-5, 1994.
• 3rd International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of Quark-Gluon Plasma, held in Jaipur, India, March 17-21, 1997.
• International Symposium on Strangeness in Quark Matter, held on the island of Santorini, Greece, April 14-18, 1997.
• International Symposium on Strangeness in Quark Matter, Padova, Italy, July 21-24, 1998.
• International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, Berkeley, California, July 20-25, 1998.
• 6th International Conference on Strange Quarks in Matter, Frankfurt, Germany, September 23-28, 2001.
• 4th International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of Quark-Gluon Plasma, held in Jaipur, India, November 26-30, 2001.
• 7th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, North Carolina, USA, March 12-17, 2003.
• 8th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, Cape Town, South Africa, September 15-20, 2004 (main organiser).
• International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, Los Angeles, USA, March, 2006.
• 5th International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of Quark-Gluon Plasma, held in Kolkata, India, February 8 - 12, 2005. International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, Levoca, Slovakia, June, 2007.
• Distributed Computing and Grid-Technologies in Science and Education, GRID’2008 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russian Federation, June 30 - July 4, 2008.
• International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, Levoca, Slovakia, June, 2007.
• International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, Beijing, China, October6 - 10, 2008.
• 21st International Conference on Ultra-relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, March 30 - April 4, 2009.
• International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, Buzios, Brazil, September 27 - October 4, 2009.
• Main organizser of the workshop: Introduction to GRID computing held at Introductio UCT September 11 - 15, 2005.

Refereeing

Referee of papers for:

• Physical Review Letters
• Physical Review C, Physics Letters B
• Zeitschrift für Physik C, International Journal of Physics G
• Computer Physics Communications

Positions held at the University of Bielefeld

• 1975 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
• 1976 Wissenschaftlicher Assistent
• 1983 Professor

Positions held at the University of Cape Town

• 1986 Senior Lecturer
• 1987 Associate Professor
• 1988 - 2009 Professor
• 07/2002 - 08/2004 Head of Physics Department
• 2010 Professor Emeritus
• Director of the “UCT-CERN Research Centre