Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki#
| Membership Number: | 4488 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.rug.nl/staff/n.kalantar-nayestanaki |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present Full professor of Physics, University of Groningen
- 2004 - 2008 Adjunct professor of Physics, University of Groningen
- 2000 - 2004 Associate professor of Physics, University of Groningen
- 2001 Visiting professor at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
- 1993 - 2000 Assistant professor of physics, University of Groningen
- 1989 - 1992 Research Scientist, Free University of Amsterdam
- 1986 - 1989 Research associate (post-doc), NIKHEF, Amsterdam
- 1983 - 1986 Research assistant (PhD student), MIT, Cambridge, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Developing analysis techniques for various experiments
- Detector developments at Ultra High Vacuum (UHV)
- Few-body physics
- Hadron Physics
- Monte-Carlo simulations for large detection systems
- Multi-particle detection within a large solid angle
- Nuclear energy
- Nuclear reactions at low-momentum transfers
- Nuclear structure and reactions using electron scattering
- Nuclear reactions at low-momentum transfers
- Using storage rings for nuclear structure studies
- Utilising radioactive ions for nuclear structure studies
Honours and Awards
- 1981 Salisbury undergraduate award
- Since 2013 Fellow, American Physical Society
- Since 2014 Member of Merit, Netherlands Physical Society
- 2016 GENCO (GSI Exotic Nuclei Community) membership award for outstanding contributions to reaction experiments with relativistic stored radioactive beams for the study of collective modes
- 2018 “Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion”
