!! François Peeters 
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__Scientific output__
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*Author or co-author of over 770 papers in international journals with a referee system. More than 12.000 citations in the international literature (listed in the ISI’s 1120 most cited physicists for the period: 1981-June 1997). H-index = 53.
*Invited speaker at more than 100 international conferences.
*Supervisor of 26 (finished) PhD.
*Head of the research group: ‘Condensed Matter Theory’ which consists of 3 ZAP, 16 PhD students and 8 postdocs (and typically 3-4 regular visitors on the level of postdoc or visiting professor).
*Member of the Editorial board of: Physica B, Solid State Communications and Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
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__Membership of international committees__
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*Member of the 'Semiconductor Physics' Council of the EPS (1995 - present).
*Member of the International Advisory Board of the SCCS conference series
*SSCS = Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems (2001 - present)
*Scientific representative of FWO-VI to the Scientific Council of CECAM
*Regular member of several international advisory and program committees of international conferences and workshops
*Member of professional societies: APS, AAS, MRS, EPS, NNV and BNV
*Organizer of several international conferences/workshops, e.g. DYPROSO, SPINTECH, CECAM-workshops, etc.
*Coordinator of the EU—R'1`N on ‘Electrons on helium’ and of a EU Marie Curie Training site
*Participant in several EU-projects, COST and ESF-networks
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__Scientific interest__
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*Theoretical modeling of the electronic, optical and magnetic properties of nanostructured semiconductors, superconductors, graphene and hybrid systems.
*Strong correlations in classical (e.g. colloids, dusty plasma) and quantum (e.g. quantum dots) systems.
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__Research periods abroad (at least one month)__
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High magnetic field laboratory (Grenoble), University of California (Berkeley), Bell Laboratory (Murray Ifill, NJ, USA), Bell Communications Research (Red Bank, NJ, USA), Universidade de Sao Paulo (Sao Carlos, Brazil), Universidade Federal do Ceara (Fortaleza, Brazil), Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos (Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil), The Australian National University (Canberra, Australia), The Oxford University (Oxford , UK), Max-Planck-Institut für Physik Komplexer Systeme (Dresden, Germany), Univ. of Notre Dame (IN, USA).