!!Mohsen (Muhsin) N. Harakeh
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__EDUCATION RECORD__
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High School\\
National College of Choueifat, Lebanon\\
September 1961 – June 1966\\
Baccalaureate I granted with Highest Honours (June 1965)\\
Baccalaureate II granted with Highest Honours (June 1966)\\

B.Sc.; Major in Physics and Minor in Education\\
American University of Beirut, Lebanon\\
September 1966 – June 1969\\
B.Sc. granted With High Distinction (June 1969)\\

Summer Student Assistant\\
Atomic Energy Commission of Denmark, Risø, Denmark\\
June 1968 – September 1968\\

Graduate Studies in Physics\\
S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.\\ 
September 1969 – December 1974\\
Qualification Examination (M.Sc.) for Ph.D. Studies in Physics (June 1970)\\
Ph.D. in Physics (December 1974)\\
Ph.D. Thesis: “Dipole excitations in light nuclei”; Thesis advisor: Prof. Peter Paul\\
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__EMPLOYMENT AND CAREER RECORD
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Teaching Assistant; scholarship granted by:\\
S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.\\
September 1969 – August 1970\\

Research Assistant; scholarship granted by:\\
S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.\\
September 1970 – December 1974\\

Research Associate\\
Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI), University of Groningen, The Netherlands\\
January 1975 - June 1977\\

Research Associate\\
Niels Bohr Institutet, Copenhagen, Denmark\\
June 1977 - June 1978\\

Assistant Professor\\
KVI, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands\\
June 1978 - December 1981\\

Associate Professor\\
KVI, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands\\
January 1982 - December 1985\\

Visiting Research Scholar\\
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.\\
January 1983 - December 1983\\

Full Professor (A) in Experimental Nuclear Physics\\ 
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands\\ 
January 1986 - December 1987\\

Deputy Head of the Nuclear Physics Group FOM KII\\
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands\\
May 1986 - March 1989\\

Chairman of the Experimental Nuclear Physics Group\\
Faculteit Natuurkunde en Sterrenkunde\\
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands\\
September 1987 - June 1989\\

Full Professor (B) in Experimental Nuclear Physics\\ 
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands\\
January 1988 - December 1992\\

Head of the Nuclear Physics Group FOM K-V\\
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands\\
April 1989 - January 1993\\

Full Professor (B) in Experimental Nuclear Physics\\
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands\\
January 1993 - present\\

Deputy Director KVI\\
KVI, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands\\
January 1993 - December 1995\\

Visiting Professor\\
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan\\
May - July 1993\\

Director of International Research School FANTOM\\
University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands\\
January 1994 - December 1995\\

Acting Director of International Research School FANTOM\\
University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands\\
January 1996 - October 1996\\

Director KVI\\
KVI, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands\\
January 1996 – December 2008\\

Visiting professor\\
University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan\\
May – August 2006\\

Visiting professor\\
GANIL & University of Caen\\
Caen, France\\
January 2009 – December 2009\\

Visiting professor\\
GSI\\ 
Darmstadt, Germany\\
January 2010 – June 2010\\
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__MEMBERSHIP OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC BODIES__
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Member of the Nuclear Physics National Working Group\\ 
May 1986 - February 1993\\  

Member of the Council of Governors of FOM\\ 
Foundation FOM, Utrecht, The Netherlands\\ 
January 1990 - December 1995\\ 

Chairman of Nuclear Physics Summer Schools\\ 
The Netherlands\\ 
January 1991 - December 1996\\ 

Member of the program advisory committee for the The Svedberg Laboratory\\ 
Uppsala, Sweden\\ 
January 1990 - April 1999\\ 

Member of the program advisory committee for the Laboratori Nazionali Di Legnaro Legnaro, Italy\\ 
January 1991 - December 1995\\ 

Associate Editor
Journal of Nuclear Physics\\ 
North-Holland (Elsevier), Amsterdam, The Netherlands\\ 
April 1994 - present\\ 

Member of the Program Advisory Committee for GANIL\\ 
GANIL, Caen, France\\ 
January 1995 – December 1999\\ 

Member of the committee RAS (Recycling of Actinides and Fission Fragments)\\  
Ministry of Economic Affairs, The Hague, The Netherlands\\ 
January 1996 - December 1998\\ 

Member of the OECD Megascience Forum Working Group on Nuclear Physics\\ 
OECD, Paris, France\\ 
September 1996 – January 1999\\ 

Chairman of Nuclear Physics Division of the Dutch Physical Society\\ 
February 1997 – September 2006\\ 

Member of Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC)\\ 
January 1997 – December 2002\\ 

Member of writing committees of NuPECC reports\\ 
January 1997 – December 2008\\ 

Member of the Editorial Board of Nuclear Physics News International\\ 
April 1997 - December 1998\\ 

Member of the Program Advisory Committee for CYCLONE\\ 
CRC, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium\\ 
April 1998 – April 2006\\ 

Chairman of the Editorial Board of Nuclear Physics News International\\ 
January 1999 - February 2003\\ 

Member of the Program Advisory Committee for COSY\\ 
FZJ, Jülich, Germany\\ 
January 1999 - March 2001\\ 

Chairman Evaluation Committee of Research Center for Nuclear Physics\\ 
University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan\\ 
January 2000\\ 

Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Japanese Studies\\ 
University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands\\ 
January 2000 – present\\ 

Member of Expert Panel for Evaluation Interuniversity Attraction Poles Networks Belgian Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs\\ 
Brussels, Belgium\\ 
February – April 2000\\ 

Chairman of the Program Advisory Committee for COSY\\ 
FZJ, Jülich, Germany\\ 
April 2001 – December 2005\\ 

Chairman of the NuPECC Subcommittee for Evaluation of the GSI Future Project GSI, Darmstadt, Germany\\ 
April 2001 – September 2001\\ 

Member of the External Scientific Advisory Committee for the GSI Future Project\\ 
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany\\ 
July 2001 \\ 

Member of the Beirat (Advisory Board) of the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)\\ 
FZJ, Jülich, Germany\\ 
November 2001 – April 2005\\ 

Member of Review Panel “Projected Transregional Collaborative Research Centre: Subnuclear Structure of Matter”\\ 
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, Germany\\ 
September 2002\\ 

Chairman of NuPECC\\ 
January 2003 – December 2005\\ 

Member of Review Panel “Projected Transregional Collaborative Research Centre: Kernstructur, nukleare Astrophysik und fundamentale Experimente bei kleinen Impulsüberträgen am supraleitenden Darmstädter Elektronenbeschleuniger\\ 
(S-DALINAC)”\\ 
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Darmstadt, Germany\\ 
February 2003\\ 

Member of the Board of ECT* (European Center for Theoretical Physics and related areas)\\ 
ECT*, Trento, Italy\\ 
1 January 2003 – December 2005\\ 

Member of the External Advisory Committee on GSI Structure\\ 
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany\\ 
June 2003 - December 2003\\ 

Member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee on SPIRAL 2\\ 
GANIL, Caen, France\\ 
September 2003 – December 2005\\ 

Member of the Peer Review Panel of University Trento\\ 
University of Trento, Trento, Italy\\ 
October 2003\\ 

Member of the Ad-Hoc Committee of C12 (IUPAP Commission on Nuclear Physics):\\ 
“International Committee for Cooperation in Nuclear Physics”\\ 
January 2004 – December 2005\\ 

Member of the RIKEN RI Beam Factory International Advisory Committee\\ 
RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan\\ 
November 2004\\ 

Member of the Review Committee of iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences (iThemba LABS)\\ 
iThemba, Stellenbosch, South Africa\\ 
November 2004

Associate Editor Physical Review C\\ 
American Institute of Physics, New York, U.S.A.\\ 
1 January 2005 – 30 January 2008\\ 

Member of the Evaluation Committee of Institute de Physique Nucléaire\\ 
IPNO, Orsay, France\\ 
May 2005\\ 

Member of the External Peer Review Panel of the CSIC “Theoretical and Experimental Physics” Activities\\ 
CSIC, Granada, Spain\\ 
September 2005\\ 

Member of the FWO (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen) Board, Committee Subatomic Physics\\ 
FWO, Brussels, Belgium\\ 
October 2005 - present \\ 

Member of NuPECC\\ 
January 2006 – December 2008\\ 

Vice Chairman of the Science Programme Advisory Council for Hadron Physics at Forschungszentrum Jülich\\ 
FZJ, Jülich, Germany\\ 
January 2006 - present\\ 

Member of the Working Group (WG9) of C12 (IUPAP) on “International Cooperation in Nuclear Physics”\\ 
January 2006 - December 2008\\ 

Member of Evaluation Committee of Research Center for Nuclear Physics\\ 
University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan\\ 
February 2006\\ 

Advisor on Education and Research Capacity Planning for Two-year Master Programmes in Flanders\\ 
Brussels, Belgium\\ 
February – March 2006\\ 

Chairman of Scientific Advisory Committee of SPIRAL 2\\ 
GANIL, Caen, France
February 2006 - present\\ 

Member of the Programme Advisory Committee of the “Stichting Integrated Development Lab (IDL)”\\ 
Foundation IDL, Assen, The Netherlands\\ 
October 2006 - present\\ 

Research Fellow of the “Energy Delta Research Centre (EDReC)”\\ 
EDReC, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands\\ 
November 2006 – present\\ 

Chairman of the Steering Group Groningen-Osaka\\ 
University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands\\ 
November 2006 – present\\ 

Member of the Panel PE2 – Fundamental Constituents of Matter of the European Research Council (ERC)\\ 
European Commission, Brussels, Belgium\\ 
January 2007 – present\\ 

Coordinator of ENSAR (European Nuclear Science and Applications Research)\\  
Integrated Infrastructure Initiative “Integrating Activity”, Capacities European Commission Seventh Framework Programme, Brussels, Belgium\\ 
September 2007 – present\\ 

Member of the Core Group “GANIL Prospectives 2015”\\ 
GANIL, Caen, France\\ 
January 2008 – April 2009\\ 

Member of the Committee for the Midterm evaluation of “Technische Natuurkunde” of the Dutch Technical Universities\\ 
Delft, Eindhoven and Twente, The Netherlands\\ 
October 2008\\ 

Chair of the Governing Council of NuPNET (European network of Nuclear Physics funding agencies)\\  
October 2008- present\\ 

Chairman of the LIBRA Programme Advisory Committee\\ 
Tandem Accelerator Laboratory, Institute of Nuclear Physics\\ 
NCSR “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece\\ 
January 2009 – present\\ 

Member of Scientific Advisory Board, The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics\\ 
Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland\\ 
January 2009 – present\\ 

Member of the Evaluation Panel of the Physics Department\\ 
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium\\ 
March-June 2009\\ 

Member of the Spanish Evaluation Panel for the Particle Physics Projects in 2009\\ 
CSIC, Madrid, Spain\\ 
May 2009\\ 

Principal Expert of the CEA-Eurotalents Program\\ 
CEA, Saclay, France\\ 
July 2009 - present\\ 

Member of the FWO (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen) Committee W&T2 ‘Physics’\\ 
FWO, Brussels, Belgium\\ 
January 2010 - present\\ 

Member of the Advisory/Review Committee of ATOMKI/Hungarian Academy of Sciences\\ 
Debrecen, Hungary\\ 
January 2010 – present\\ 

Member of the “Prix Dr. A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart – Basic exact Sciences”\\ 
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS (F.R.S. - FNRS)\\ 
Brussels, Belgium\\ 
May 2010\\ 

Member of many International Advisory Committees of international conferences, symposia, workshops, etc.

Chairman and member of several organizing committees of international conferences, summer schools (see under seminars and invited talks)\\ 
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__MEMBERSHIP OF SOCIETIES AND AWARDS__
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American International Development (AID) Scholarship for
B.Sc. studies at American University of Beirut, Lebanon\\ 
1966 - 1969\\ 

Fulbright scholarship (+ Travel Grant)\\ 
U.S. State Department, Washington D.C., U.S.A.\\ 
1969 - 1974\\ 

Member of the American Physical Society\\ 
1972 -present\\ 

Member of the Dutch Physical Society\\ 
1978 – present\\ 

Member of the Rotary Club\\ 
1995 - present\\ 

Member of the European Physical Society\\ 
2008 -present\\ 

Award of Research Fellow of the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science\\ 
1993\\ 

Fellow of the American Physical Society\\ 
1994 – present\\ 

Member of the Board of the Jabalya - Groningen Foundation\\ 
2002 – present\\ 

Medal of the Hellenic Nuclear Physics Society\\ 
May 2005\\ 

Award of Research Fellow of the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science\\ 
2006\\ 

Member of the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea)\\  
January 2008 – present\\ 

Decoration as officer in the order of Oranje-Nassau\\ 
April 2008\\