!!!Simon Frederik Portegies Zwart
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__Present and Previous Positions__
*2013 - 2022 Visiting Scientist at RIKEN, Kobe, Japan
*August - December 2018, Visiting Professor, Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), Toronto, Canada
*2009 - present Professor of Computational Astrophysics, Leiden University, Netherlands
*2007 - 2009 Assistant Professor Computational Science and Astrophysics, University of Amsterdam
*2002 - 2007 Royal Netherlands Academy Fellow (Assistant Professor, Computational Science and Astrophysics), University of Amsterdam
*1-1998 - 2002 NASA Hubble Fellow (postdoctoral fellow), Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston University
*1-1997 - 1998 JSPS Fellow (Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science), Computational Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
*1996 - 1997 Spinoza postdoctoral fellow, Anton Pannekoek Institute of Astronomy, University of Amsterdam
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__Fields of Scholarship__
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__Honours and Awards__
*2025 -Minor Planet 12946 named "Portegies Zwart", by the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
*2022 IEEE HPC Innovation Excellence Award
*2017 Member of Royal Hollands Society of Sciences (Koninklijke Hollandse Maatschappij van Wetenschappen, oldest Science Academy of the Netherlands)
*2016 Innovation Award of NWO (Netherlands Science Foundation) and SURF (Netherlands Universities High Performance Computing collaboration)
*2014 IEEE Gordon Bell Prize nomination (Nr. 2 out of 500 nominees; together with his PhD student J.Bedorf), for their world-record performance of 24.8 Petaflops with > 90%  efficiency on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory supercomputer Titan, for simulating the Milky Way galaxy on a star by star basis 
*2014 Wim Nieuwpoort Prize for Outstanding High Performance Computing, of Netherlands Science Foundation NWO
*2008 VICI Grant (1.5Million Euros prize research grant ) of Netherlands Science Foundation NWO
*2007 Pastor Schmeits Prize 2007 (Prize for most outstanding Netherlands astronomer younger than 45)
*2002 Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) Fellowship (5 yr Assistant Professor salary).
*1998 NASA Hubble Fellowship (4 yr post-doctoral fellowship, for working at MIT and Boston University) 
*1997 JSPS postdoctoral fellowship (one year postdoctoral fellowship, of Japanese Society for the promotion of Science), for working in Computational Science at Tokyo University
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