The scientists employed by SCM all have Ph.D.s in theoretical chemistry, have many years experience in program development, and communicate fluently in the English language. We provide expert support to the ADF, BAND and COSMO-RS users, offer assistance to external ADF developers, and implement the improvements in our programs that are desired by the users of our software.
| Dr. Stan van Gisbergen CEO and Managing Partner of SCM Ph.D. 1998 Born 1971 |
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Dr. Stan van Gisbergen's Ph.D. on implementing Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory in ADF, under supervision of Prof. Baerends and the late Prof. Snijders, won the DSM award for best Ph.D. Chemistry and Chemical Technology thesis in The Netherlands. Before joining SCM, Stan worked for two more years as a postdoc with Prof. Baerends on ADF speed-ups (parallelization and linear scaling techniques). Stan is in charge of all business-related matters for SCM. One of his primary tasks is to initiate, stimulate, and facilitate academic and business collaborations related to SCM's software. |
| Dr. Olivier Visser Software Developer Ph.D. 1992 Born 1964 |
Dr. Olivier Visser obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1992 in relativistic quantum chemistry with Prof. Nieuwpoort in Groningen; he then joined the theoretical chemistry group in Amsterdam. Soon his interests moved from traditional research work to software development, beginning with the ADF parallelization project. In recent years, the further development and support of the various Graphical User Interfaces have become his primary responsibilities. | |
| Dr. Erik van Lenthe Software Developer Ph.D. 1996 Born 1964 |
Dr. Erik van Lenthe obtained his Ph.D. degree for the development of the ZORA method (relativistic approach used in ADF and BAND). He next held postdoc positions with Prof. van der Avoird in Nijmegen and with Prof. Baerends in Amsterdam working on the inclusion of relativistic effects (such as spin orbit coupling) in methods for spectroscopy (ESR, NMR, electronic excitation energies). Since joining SCM Erik has become involved in the detailed algorithms inside ADF, basis and fit sets, the implementation of hybrid functionals, and COSMO-RS. | |
| Dr. Alexei Yakovlev Software Developer Ph.D. 1999 Born 1968 |
Dr. Alexei Yakovlev received his Ph.D. degree with Prof. G. M. Zhidomirov, modeling catalytically active sites in metal-containing zeolites. He then worked five years as a postdoc in the catalysis group of Prof. van Santen at the Technical University of Eindhoven, applying ADF to zeolites. At SCM, he is our primary expert on all technical aspects of the code: optimization, debugging, installation scripts, preparing Windows binaries, code tweaking, merging new code from academic partners. He also works to implement in ADF well known algorithms and features that are of interest to our customers. | |
| Dr. Pier Philipsen Software Developer Ph.D. 2001 Born 1964 |
Dr. Pier Philipsen's Ph.D. thesis with Prof. Baerends had the simple title "Solids and Surfaces", true to Pier's nature. The thesis contained a number of developments for our periodic structure DFT code BAND. After some years in other software companies, Pier returned to SCM to take charge of further developments in BAND. This includes speed, functionality, and usability (BAND-GUI) improvements. Pier is also famous for his music, including the official song for the DFT2007 conference. | M.Sc. Mirko Franchini Method Developer Ph.D. Student
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Mirko Franchini received his M.Sc. in theoretical physics in 2011 working on Green's functions for electronic transport in mesoscopic systems. Now he is pursuing his Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry with Prof. Visscher as an advisor, working with SCM as method and software developer in ADF and BAND. |
| M.Sc. Hans van Schoot Software Developer Born 1985 |
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Hans van Schoot received his M.Sc. in theoretical chemistry at the Vrije Universiteit in 2012. He has studied metadynamics during his Bachelor and his Masters project involved GPU acceleration in ADF. Hans joined SCM just after his M.Sc. as a software developer. He will work on various projects such as GPU acceleration of ADF and our other codes as well as implementing fast MD and QM/MM methods. |
| Dr. You Lu Software Developer Ph.D. 2011 Born 1982 |
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Dr. You Lu studied physical organic chemistry with Prof. Yun-Dong Wu at Peking University and did his Ph.D. and postdoc research with Prof. Walter Thiel at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung. He is experienced in semiempirical methods, parameterization, excited state calculation, nonadiabatic dynamics, and QM/MM. He will be developing approximate DFT methods and QM/QM hybrids (DFTB, DFTxTB, FDE). |
| Dr. Paul de Boeij Scientific Advisor Ph.D. 1997 Born 1968 |
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Dr. Ir. Paul L. de Boeij received his PhD degree in 1997 in physics at the University of Twente on the ab-initio treatment of optical reflection at crystalline surfaces. He joined the theoretical chemistry group of Prof. J.G. Snijders in Groningen as post-doc, and developed the time-dependent current-density functional theory for periodic systems and molecules in ADF-BAND. As NWO VIDI fellow he supervised five PhD and several post-doc projects in current-based and multi-component density functional theory. He is currently scientific advisor of SCM. |
| Dr. Fedor Goumans Business Developer Ph.D. 2005 Born 1978 |
Dr. Fedor Goumans received his Ph.D. in computational chemistry, working in the experimental inorganic chemistry group of Prof. Lammertsma. He always held close connections with experiments, working as a post-doc in UCL's experimental surface science group of Dr. Brown, before moving to Leiden to study astrochemical reactions in collaboration with the Leiden Observatory. With a broad background in modeling across various disciplines, Fedor has joined SCM in 2012 to further develop software documentation, tutorials, marketing and scientific customer support. | |
| Mrs. Frieda Vansina Office Manager Born 1958 |
Mrs. Frieda Vansina took over the role of office manager at SCM in early 2009. She is in touch with our users regarding many practical matters, including those involving contracts, invoices and license files. |
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