Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae of Jan M.L. Martin

Personalia

Name: Jan M.L. (Gershom) Martin. Israeli ID# (mispar zehut): 3-1396890-1.
Born: Hasselt (Belgium), July 29, 1964 (20 Av 5724). Aliya: July 3, 1996 (16 Tamuz 5756).
Citizenship: Belgium (by birth), Israel (under the Law of Return).
Marital status: married to Wendy (Shoshana) Gardner. One daughter, Aviva, born April 14, 1995 (14 Nisan 5755)

Home address:

Rehov Carmel 8 apt. 2, IL-76305 Rehovot, Israel. Telephone/FAX: +972(8) 946-4822.

Office address:

Department of Organic Chemistry, Kimmelman Building, Room 252, Weizmann Institute of Science, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel. Telephone: +972(8)934-2533. FAX: +972(8)934-4142. Skype: g e r s h o m 2 1 1 2
Email: g e r s h o m [at sign] w e i z m a n n [dot] a c [dot] i l
WWW home page: http://theochem.weizmann.ac.il/
ISI ResearcherID Profile: A-7457-2008

Research center affiliations:

Member ad personam, Lise Meitner-Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry
Member, Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for Molecular Design

Scientific qualifications

Education

Habilitation (University level teaching qualification), November 1994, University of Antwerp, Belgium (pass-or-fail degree). [UMI ProQuest Dissertations 9532332]
Doctorate in Chemistry (Ph.D.) February 1991, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium, summa cum laude with congratulations of the examination jury ("met de grootste onderscheiding en de gelukwensen van de examencommissie", highest possible distinction in Belgium). [UMI ProQuest Dissertations 9129654]
Licentiate in Chemistry (M.Sc.) July 1987, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium, summa cum laude ("met de grootste onderscheiding")
Candidate in Chemistry (B.Sc.) July 1985, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Diepenbeek, Belgium, summa cum laude ("met de grootste onderscheiding")

Past and present positions

Full Professor ("profesor min ha-minyan"), Department of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, since October 2005.
Incumbent of the Lady Thatcher Professorial Chair of Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, since September 2004.
Associate Professor ("profesor haver") with tenure, Department of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, October 2001--September 2005.
Assistant Professor ("hoqer bakhir"), Department of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, October 1996-September 2001. Incumbent of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Career Development Chair.
Senior Research Associate ("Onderzoeksleider", a tenured research-only faculty position) of the NFWO/FNRS (National Science Foundation of Belgium), 1995-September 1999. On unpaid leave of absence October 1996-September 1999.
Postdoctoral fellow ("Postdoctoraal onderzoeker") of the NFWO/FNRS, 1991-1995
Doctoral fellow ("Aspirant") of the NFWO/FNRS, 1987-1991

Fellowships other than positions

Yigal Allon Fellowship for New Immigrant Faculty (Council for Higher Education, Israel), 1996-1999
Golda Meir Fellowship (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), 1996
National Research Council (NRC) Fellowship, 1992 (declined by recipient because no simultaneous tenure with NFWO position permitted)
Fulbright-Hays scholarship for Research or Lecturing, 1992
NATO travel grant, 1992

Scientific prizes and awards

2008 Wolgin Prize for Scientific Excellence, Weizmann Institute of Science.
Dirac Medal of WATOC (World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists), 2004.
Prize of the Scientific Council in Chemical Sciences (pras ha-mo`atza ha-mada`it le-mad`ei ha-khimia), Weizmann Institute of Science, 2001.
Outstanding Young Scientist Award (pras la-mad`an ha-tzair ha-mitztayen) of the Israel Chemical Society, 1999-2000 (Hebrew Year 5759).
Alumni Award (one prize in Chemistry every 5 years) of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation (Fondation Universitaire/Universitaire Stichting), 1997.
University of Antwerp Bi-Annual Research Prize, 1994
Prize for Scientific Monographs of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Literature, and Fine Arts (Belgium), 1992
Jean-Servais Stas prize of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Literature, and Fine Arts (Belgium), 1991.
2nd prize in "DSM-contest for Chemistry and Technology", Geleen, The Netherlands, 1990.
Essochem-prize for chemistry students, 1987

Other scientific honors

2008 Robert S. Mulliken Lectureship, Center for Computational Chemistry, University of Georgia (Athens, GA, USA).

Scientific community service

Chairman of the Organizing Committee, the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society
Member of the editorial board of Spectrochimica Acta A: Molecular Spectroscopy(since 2002)
Member of the editorial board of Theoretical Chemistry Accounts (effective 2007)
Frequent reviewer for Journal of Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics Letters, and Journal of Physical Chemistry A, and Journal of the American Chemical Society; reviewer for Molecular Physics, SCIENCE, Journal of Computational Chemistry, Journal of Molecular Structure, and several other journals.
External reviewer of proposals for several domestic and foreign science funding agencies.
Invited member of Chemistry Evaluation Panel for Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese National Science and Technology Foundation), Lisbõa, 1998.
Member of IUPAC Task Group Selected Free Radicals and Critical Intermediates: Thermodynamic Properties from Theory and Experiment (2000-2003, renewed 2004-2006).

Administrative duties

Senior Advisor to the President for Information Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science (since July 2008)
Member of the Teaching Board, Faculty of Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, starting Academic Year 2004-2005.
Chairman of Weizmann Institute Library Committee, 2004-present; member, 2001-present.
Member of the Steering Committee of the Weizmann Institute Computing Center, 2000-present.
Member of Feinberg Graduate School Approval Board for Ph.D. Dissertations (va`adat ha-tezot), Academic Years 2001-2004.
Co-Organizer (with Michael Elbaum) of Faculty of Chemistry Colloquium, 2004-2005.
Webmaster for Faculty of Chemistry and for Department of Organic Chemistry
Weizmann Institute representative in Steering Committee of High-Performance Computing Unit of the Israel Interuniversity Computing Center

Teaching

In various academic years I have taught courses such as

Mathematics for Chemists I
Applied Quantum Chemistry
Scientific Writing

Publications

Over 220 published papers. Mostly research articles in international scientific journals, a few invited review articles in books. Click here for a comprehensive list of scientific publications. Cumulative citation index on September 27, 2009: 8,763 (of which 8,237 to ISI-abstracted items only, 526 to other items listing "MARTIN JML" as author).
Hirsch h-index: 50 (51 including non-ISI items). g-index: 78.

Professional memberships

Other professional skills

Languages

According to US Foreign Service Institute scale: S-1=survival; S-2=basic working knowledge; S-3=professional working knowledge; S-4=full professional proficiency; S-5=Native speaker or equivalent proficiency.

	Listening	Speaking	Reading	Writing
Dutch (Nederlands)	L-5	S-5	R-5	W-5
English	L-5	S-5	R-5	W-5
Hebrew (Ivrit)	L-4	S-4	R-3	W-2
French (Français)	L-4	S-3	R-4	W-2
German (Deutsch)	L-4	S-2	R-4	W-2

Some passive knowledge of Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Yiddish.

Computing

experienced Fortran programmer; notions of Pascal, C, and Perl.
System administration: Unix and derived systems (Linux, Mac OS X)
Linux cluster computing
experience as acting systems and network administrator for an entire university campus (Unix, Macintosh)
HTML (World Wide Web) authoring
scientific typesetting (LaTeX)

Extracurricular public activities

I occasionally lecture about historical or popular science subjects, most recently about the "Science of Music".
In the years 1993-1996, I used to write for "Shofar", the magazine of Beth Hillel (the Reform/Conservative Jewish community in Belgium) and occasionally for other Jewish periodicals.

References

References available upon request