Adriaan A. Louis
Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University,
Lensfield Rd, Cambridge CB2 1HW, UK
Phone: +44-(0)1223-763872; Fax: +44-(0)1223-336362
Electronic mail: aal20@cam.ac.uk;
www-louis.ch.cam.ac.uk/louis/
Citizenship: the Netherlands
Ph.D. Cornell University, Theoretical Physics (January 1998)
Thesis title: Quantum Dissipation from Phonons;
Metallic Hydrogen; Electron-Ion Mixtures
Thesis advisor: Professor Neil W. Ashcroft
M.S. Cornell University, Theoretical
Physics (September 1995)
Drs. Rijks Universiteit
Utrecht, Netherlands, Physics (August 1992, Cum Laude)
October 2003 to present: Ordinary Fellow at Hughes Hall
October 2002 to present: Royal Society University Research Fellow (Academic Staff post) in Theoretical Chemistry, Cambridge University.
January 2000 to September 2002: Isaac Newton Trust Fellow in Theoretical Chemistry, Cambridge University.
October 1998 to September 2003: Research Fellow at Hughes Hall
January 1998 to January 2000: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (EC: TMR) in Theoretical Chemistry, Cambridge University. Supervisor: Professor Jean-Pierre Hansen.
October 1997 to November 1997: Environmental Consultant for Gabon Vert, a small Gabonese owned company specialising in the preservation and restoration of tropical rainforest.
May 1994 to September 1997: Graduate Research Assistant at the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University. Supervisor: Professor Neil W. Ashcroft.
August 1992 to May 1994: Teaching Assistant, Cornell University Physics Department, (20 hr/week) appointment. Taught physics for biology students (Fall 1992), electricity and magnetism for engineering students (Spring 1993), waves and optics for physics honour students (Fall 1993) and advanced mechanics for physics honour students (Spring 1994).
Summer 1993: Summer Research Assistant at the
Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University.
Worked on theories of quantum tunnelling with dissipation
(http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/ardlouis/dissipative/QAtunneling.html).
Supervisor: Professor James P. Sethna.
October 1991 - July 1992: Undergraduate Research Assistant at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF). Worked on theories of entropic de-mixing. Supervisor: Professor Daan Frenkel.
Conferences Organised:
Protein-Protein Interactions in Vitro and in Vivo, an Isaac Newton Institute Workshop, 21-23 June 2004, Cambridge UK: co-organiser. (http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/SMC/smcw03.html).
Effective Many-Body Interactions and Correlations in Soft Matter, a CECAM/SIMU workshop, 7-9 July 2003, Lyon, France: co-organiser. (http://www.phys.uu.nl/ mdijkstr/cecam/cecam.html) co-edited the related special issue J. Phys. Condens. Matter 15, Number 48 (2003).
Thermodynamics 2003, 9-11 April, 2003, Cambridge, UK:
local organiser.
(http://www.the-conference.com/thermo2003/)
Interactions, Phases, and Flow of Colloids, an interdisciplinary workshop held 29-31 March 1999, Cambridge, UK: co-organiser. (http://www-theor.ch.cam.ac.uk/people/ardlouis/colloid/)
Professional Societies:
Royal Society of Chemistry: Member of the steering committee for the Statistical Mechanics & Thermodynamics Group (SMTG). (since October 2001)
Professional Teaching Experience:
Director of Studies in Natural
Sciences (Physical) at Hughes Hall (Since October 2000).
Courses Lectured: Computer Simulation Methods in
Chemistry and Physics, lectures for Cambridge Chemistry part III
course (Lent 2003, Lent 2004).
Practicals Demonstrator for part IB and
part II theory practicals for Cambridge Chemistry (Junior demonstrator
January 1998 - January 2000; Senior demonstrator January 2000 - present)
Other Professional Activities:
Hughes Hall committees: Member of various committees at Hughes Hall including: a working group to review the research contribution of Hughes Hall (December 1998 - February 1999); chairman of a committee to review the visiting fellow scheme (March 1999 - October 2000); current committee memberships include Domus Committee, Discipline Committee, and the Fellowships Committee (Oct 2001 - present)
Cambridge Chemistry Department Seminars:
Informal Theoretical Chemistry Seminar Series (http://www-theor.ch.cam.ac.uk/people/ardlouis/FriSeminar/) (Organiser since October 1998)
Wednesday Theoretical Chemistry Colloquia (http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/CUCL/theo/) (Organiser since October 1998)
Referee for: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Physical Review B, Journal of Chemical Physics, Molecular Physics, Chemical Physics Letters, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Europhysics Letters, Journal of Computational Chemistry, European Journal of Physics E, Physica A
December 2003: EPSRC Departmental quota PhD studentship award, Modelling Protein Crystallisation, candidate Koon-yiu Tse
November 2003: £5202 EPSRC award GR/S77936/01 for ``Protein Interactions in Vivo and in Vitro'' conference, jointly with R. Sear, J.P.K. Doye, and M. Vendruscolo
October 2003: EU Framework 6 Programme ``Structuring the European Research Area: Human Resources and Mobility'' FP6-509249,title: Theory and computer simulations of interfacial phenomena, exact funding amount still under negotiation. Project for joint (salaried) visits between Cambridge, the University of Lublin, Poland, and a number of other universities and institutes in Germany, Spain, Austria and the Czech Republic,
October 2003: £11,000 Royal Society research expenses award
June 2003: £137,006 EPSRC Impact Faraday award GR/S45409/01: Computational modelling and design of responsive industrial fluids
June 2003: EPSRC CASE PhD studentship award,Computational modelling and design of responsive industrial fluids, sponsor Schlumberger Cambridge Research, candidate: t.b.d.
May 2003: £1000 Royal Society research expenses award
October 2002: EPSRC CNA PhD studentship award, Modelling complex fluids, industrial sponsor Schlumberger Cambridge Research, candidate: Stelios Karanikas
October 2002: £13,000 Royal Society research expenses award
October 2002: Royal Society University Research Fellowship "New coarse-graining approaches to colloids, polymers, and proteins in solution."
January 1998: 2 year TMR Marie Curie (Personal) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship award, GB/hr/977/340/026452, Density Functional Theory of Electron-Ion Mixtures: Phase Transitions in Liquid Metals,
[1] Daan Frenkel and A. A. Louis, ``Phase separation in a binary hard-core mixture: an exact result.'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 3363 (1992).
[2] A.A. Louis and James P. Sethna,``Atomic tunnelling from a STM/AFM tip: dissipative quantum effects from phonons'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 1363 (1995).
[3] W.J. Nellis, A.A. Louis and N.W. Ashcroft, ``Metallization of fluid hydrogen'', Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. 356, 119-135 (1998).
[4] A.A. Louis and N.W. Ashcroft, ``Extending linear response: inferences from electron-ion structure factors.'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4456 (1998).
[5] A.A. Louis and N.W. Ashcroft, ``Electron-ion structure factors and the general accuracy of linear response'', J. Non-Crystalline Solids. 250-252, 9 (1999).
[6] A.A. Louis, R. Finken and J-P. Hansen, ``The structure of colloid-polymer mixtures'', Europhys. Lett. 46, 741 (1999).
[7] A.A. Louis, R. Finken and J-P. Hansen, ``Crystallisation and phase-separation in non-additive binary hard-sphere mixtures'', Phys. Rev. E 61, R1028 (2000).
[8] J.A. Anta and A.A. Louis, `` Probing ion-ion and electron-ion correlations in the quantum hypernetted chain approximation'', Phys. Rev. B 61, 11400 (2000).
[9] A.A. Louis, ``Fluid-solid phase-separation in hard-sphere mixtures is unrelated to bond-percolation'', comment Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1840 (2000).
[10] A.A. Louis, P.G. Bolhuis, J.P. Hansen, and E.J. Meijer ``Can Polymer Coils be modeled as `Soft Colloids'?'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2522 (2000).
[11] A.A. Louis, P.G. Bolhuis, and J.P. Hansen ``Mean Field Fluid Behavior of the Gaussian Core Model'', Phys. Rev. E. 62, 7961 (2000).
[12] P.G. Bolhuis, A.A. Louis, J.P. Hansen, and E.J. Meijer, ``Accurate effective pair potentials for polymer solutions'', J. Chem. Phys. 114, 4296 (2001).
[13] A.A. Louis, ``Effective potentials for polymers and colloids: Beyond the van der Waals picture of fluids?'', Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. 359, 939 (2001).
[14] P.G. Bolhuis, A.A. Louis, and J.P. Hansen "Many -body interactions and correlations in coarse-grained descriptions of polymer solutions" Phys. Rev. E. 64, 021801 (2001).
[15] A.A. Louis and R. Roth ``Generalized depletion interactions'', J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 33, L777 (2001)
[16] R. Roth, R. Evans, and A.A. Louis ``Theory of asymmetric non-additive binary hard-sphere mixtures'', Phys. Rev. E 64, 051202 (2001).
[17] E. Allahyarov, H. Löwen, A.A. Louis, and J.P. Hansen ``Discrete charge patterns, Coulomb correlations and interactions in protein solutions'', Europhys. Lett 57, 731 (2002)
[18] P.G. Bolhuis, and A.A. Louis, ``How to derive and parameterize effective potentials in colloid-polymer mixtures'', Macromolecules 35, 1860 (2002)
[19] A.A. Louis, P.G. Bolhuis, R. Finken, V. Krakoviack, E.J. Meijer and J.P. Hansen, ``Coarse-graining polymers as soft colloids'', Physica A. 306, 251 (2002)
[20]A.A. Louis, H. Xu, and J.A. Anta, ``Combining quantum and classical density functional theory for ion-electron mixtures'', J. Non-Cryst. Solids, 312-314C, 60 (2002)
[21] R. Finken, J.-P. Hansen, A. A. Louis, ``Phase separation of penetrable core mixtures'', J. Stat. Phys. 110, 1015 (2003)
[22] A.A. Louis, E. Allahyarov, H. Löwen and R.Roth, ``Effective forces in colloidal mixtures: Depletion attraction to accumulation repulsion'' Phys. Rev. E, 65 061407 (2002)
[23] V. Krakoviack, J. P. Hansen, A. A. Louis, ``Relating monomer to centre-of-mass distribution functions in polymer solutions'', Europhys. Lett. 58, 53 (2002)
[24] A.A. Louis, P.G. Bolhuis, E.J. Meijer and J.P. Hansen, ``Density profiles and surface tensions of polymers near colloidal surfaces'', J. Chem. Phys. 116 , 10547 (2002)
[25] A.A. Louis, P.G. Bolhuis, E.J. Meijer and J.P. Hansen, ``Polymer induced depletion potentials between two colloidal particles'' J. Chem. Phys. 117, 1893 (2002)
[26] A.A. Louis ``Depletion potentials in colloidal suspensions'', invited review article, in preparation for J. Phys. Condens. Matt (2002)
[27] C. N. Likos, N. Hoffmann, H. Löwen and A. A. Louis ``Exotic fluids and crystals of soft polymeric colloids'', J. Phys. Condens. Matt 14, 7681 (2002).
[28] A.A. Louis, ``Beware of density dependent pair potentials'', J. Phys. Condens. Matt 14, 9187 (2002).
[29] E. Allahyarov, H. Löwen, A.A. Louis, and J.P. Hansen, ``Second virial coefficient of globular protein solutions: nonmonotonicity with added salt concentration'' Phys. Rev. E 67, 051494 (2003).
[30] P.G. Bolhuis, A.A. Louis, and J.P. Hansen, ``Role of polymer excluded volume in phase behavior of colloid polymer mixtures'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 128302 (2002)
[31] P.G. Bolhuis, E.J. Meijer and A.A. Louis, ``Colloid-polymer mixtures in the protein limit'' Phys. Rev. Lett 90, 068304 (2003)
[32] A.A. Louis, ``Using isosbestic points to extract interactions from structure factors'', cond-mat/0211537 (2002)
[33] V. Krakoviack, J.-P. Hansen, and A.A. Louis ``Influence of solvent quality on effective pair potentials between polymers in solution'', Phys. Rev. E 67, 041801 (2003)
[34] B. Rotenberg, J. Dzubiella, J.-P. Hansen, and A. A. Louis ``Thermodynamic perturbation theory of the phase behaviour of colloid/interacting polymer mixtures'', to appear in Mol. Phys. (2004)
[35] A. Moncho-Jorda, B. Rotenberg, A. A. Louis, ''Effect of polymer-polymer interactions on the surface tension of colloid-polymer mixtures'', J. Chem. Phys. 119 , 12667 (2003)
[36] A. Moncho-Jorda, A. A. Louis, P. G. Bolhuis, and R. Roth, ``The Asakura-Oosawa model in the protein limit: the role of many-body interactions'', J. Phys.: Condensed Matter, 15, S3429 (2003)
[37] R. Finken, J.-P. Hansen, and A.A. Louis, ``Phase separation of a multiple occupancy lattice gas'', J. Phys. A: Math. Gen 37, 577 (2004)
[38] J.P.K. Doye, A. A. Louis and M. Vendruscolo, ``Inhibition of protein crystallization by evolutionary negative design'' To appear in Jan 2004 edition of Physical Biology
(1) Attraction through Repulsion: Phase Separation in Hard Core Mixtures, invited talk given at the 1992 National Seminar Statistical Mechanics in Utrecht, the Netherlands, June 5, 1992.
(2) Atomic Tunnelling from an AFM/STM tip: Dissipative Effects from Phonons invited talk given at the Department of Theoretical Physics, Rijks Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands, August 19, 1994.
(3) Liquid Metallic Hydrogen, invited talk given at the Department of Materials, Oxford University, July 11, 1996.
(4) Liquid Metallic Hydrogen, invited talk given at the Department of Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, July 29, 1996.
(5) Liquid Metallic Hydrogen, invited talk given at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, CA, September 15, 1997.
(6) Metallization of Fluid Hydrogen, invited talk given at the Department of Physics, Bristol University, March 11, 1998.
(7) Giving Entropy a Hand, the Critical Role of Non-Additivity in Binary Colloidal Mixtures, invited talk given at the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University, January 25, 1999.
(8) Liquid Metallic Hydrogen: When/What is a Metal?, invited talk given in the Mineral Physics seminar series, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University, February 1, 1999.
(9) A Quantum Mystery in Plain Language: The Einstein-Podolsky Rosen Paradox, invited talk given in the Hughes Hall seminar series, Cambridge, February 23, 1999.
(10) Is There a Semi-Universal Picture of Depletion in Binary Mixtures?, invited talk given at the Department of Physics, Edinburgh University, May 5, 1999.
(11) Electron-Ion Correlations in Liquid Metals, invited talk given at the ``Liquid State of Matter: Opportunities From Advanced Radiation Sources'' conference in Trieste, Italy, June 28 - July 2, 1999.
(12) Liquid Metals as Electron-Ion Mixtures: Correlations and Interactions, invited talk given at the 1999 Gordon Conference on ``Molten Salts and Liquid Metals'', in Henniker, New Hampshire, July 25-30, 1999.
(13) Effective Potentials in Complex Fluids, invited talk given to the Polymers and Colloids Group, Dept. of Chemistry, Bristol University, January 14, 2000.
(14) Mixing Polymers and Colloids: The Dark Hand of Entropy, invited talk given at Dept. of Chemistry, Birmingham University, May 22, 2000.
(15) Effective Potentials for Polymers and Colloids, invited talk given at the Royal Society Discussion Meeting, ``Interactions, structure and phase behaviour of colloidal dispersions'', London, Oct 26, 2000.
(16) Can complex fluids be modelled with the theory of simple fluids?, invited talk given at the BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, Cambridge, May 17, 2001.
(17) Les potentiels effectifs dans les colloïdes: mélanges binaires et polymèrs comme colloides mous , invited talk at the Laboratoire du Physique, E.N.S. Lyon, Lyon, France June 25, 2001.
(18) Les potentiels effectifs dans les colloïdes: mélanges binaires et polymèrs comme colloides mous , invited talk at the Département de Physique des Matériaux, Université Lyon I., Lyon, France June 27, 2001.
(19) Polymers as soft colloids: effective interactions, phase behavior and depletion forces , invited talk given at the 21st IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics STATPHYS21, Cancun, Mexico, July 19, 2001.
(20) Ion-ion and electron-ion correlations in liquid metals, invited talk given at the Liquid and Amorphous Metals 11 conference, Yokohama, Japan, 10 Sept, 2001.
(21) Polymers as soft colloids, or how to model long string as balls of yarn, invited talk given at the dept. of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 14 Sept, 2001.
(22) Modelling complex fluids with the theory of simple fluids: analogies and their breakdown, invited talk given at the WE-Heraeus Seminar 261, Recent developments in the physics of liquids, Bad Honeff, Germany, 16 October 2001.
(23) Polymers as soft colloids: How to model long strings as balls of yarn, invited talk given at the Polymer IRC in Leeds, November 21 2001.
(24) Modelling complex fluids with the theory of simple fluids: Analogies and their breakdown, invited talk given at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 21, 2001.
(25) Polymers as soft colloids, invited talk given at the Newton Institute on Soft Condensed Matter activities in Cambridge termly meeting, January 14, 2002.
(26) Modelling complex fluids with the theory of simple fluids, invited talk given at ``Liquid State theory: from white dwarfs to colloids'' in les Houches, France, April 1, 2002.
(27) Modelling complex fluids with the theory of simple fluids, invited talk given at the Physics department, University of Surrey, May 1, 2002.
(28) Polymers as soft colloids: coarse-graining across length scales, invited talk given at ``Computing Across Different Scales'' workshop at the Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, May 13, 2002.
(29) Polymers as soft colloids: coarse-graining across length scales, invited talk given at the Max Planck Institute für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany, June 4, 2002
(30) Polymers as soft colloids: coarse-graining across length scales invited talk given at the CECAM conference ``Computational models for liquid crystals and complex systems'', Erice, Italy, 16 July 2002.
(31) Mixing polymers and colloids: the dark hand of entropy invited talk for the Dobson bio-physics group, Cambridge, 11 March 2003.
(32)Mixing polymers and colloids: the dark hand of entropy invited talk at Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain, 24 April, 2003.
(33)Some subtleties regarding the use of effective pair potentials in soft matter systems, invited talk at CECAM workshop ``Effective many-body interactions and correlations in soft matter`` Lyon, France, 7 July, 2003.
(34) Effective Potentials in Complex Fluids, invited talk at Department fo Physics, University of Messina, 30 October, 2003
(35) Coarse-graining polymers as soft colloids, invited talk at Department of Physics, University of Messina, 30 October, 2003.
(36) Polymers as soft colloids: bridging length-scales without tripping up?, invited talk at Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Utrecht, 5 February, 2004.