Dr. W.G. (Wim) Bouwman

Foto: Jacqueline de Haas

Radiation, Radionuclides & Reactors

Neutron and Positron Methods in Materials

Biography

• 1997 – present
  Associate Professor, section Neutron and Positron Methods in Materials, department Radiation, Radionuclides & Reactors, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology. Development and application of novel neutron scattering techniques.
• 1995-1996
  Postdoc, Space Research Organisation Netherlands, Earth Oriented Science division. Retrieval of the OH radical in the stratosphere from satellite measurements in the far infrared region.
• 1993-1995
  Postdoc, Risø National Laboratory, Condensed Matter Physics and Chemistry Department. X-ray and neutron reflectivity and grazing incidence X-ray diffraction in thin organic films.
• 1988-1993
  PhD FOM-institute AMOLF. High resolution X-ray scattering study on the critical behaviour of a phase transition in liquid crystals.
• 1986-1988
  Ramsay Memorial Fellow at the The Royal Institution of Great Britain. Laser spectroscopy of organic molecules cooled down in a supersonic jet.
• 1982-1986
  MSc Physical Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam

Member of the Science Advisory Group of the European Spallation Source – Scandinavia

Member of the International Advisory Committee for the International Conference on Neutron Scattering

Research interests

• Development and use of SESANS
• Development new instrumental methods with polarised neutrons
• Soft condensed matter: colloids, food materials, granular matter

Teaching activities

• Beweging, Krachten en Velden (ET1105), Duurzaam Ondernemen (WM0915TN), Mechanica 2 (TN4120TA)
• Various research oriented projects for students Applied Physics and Molecular Science and Technology
• Supervised 4 PhD’s until now

Key publications

• Analysis of spin-echo small-angle neutron scattering
  R. Andersson, L.F. van Heijkamp, I.M. de Schepper, W.G. Bouwman
  J. Appl. Cryst.. 41, 868-885 (2008)
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S0021889808026770
• Real-space neutron scattering methods
  W.G. Bouwman, J. Plomp, V.O. de Haan, W.H. Kraan, A.A. van Well, K. Habicht, T. Keller, M.T. Rekveldt
  Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 586 9–14 (2008)
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2007.11.045
• Structural transitions of hard-sphere colloids studied by spin-echo small-angle neutron scattering
  T.Krouglov, W.G. Bouwman, J. Plomp, M.Th. Rekveldt, G.J. Vroege, A.V. Petukhov and D.M.E. Thies-Weesie
  J. Appl. Cryst. 36, 1417-1423 (2003)
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S0021889803021216
• Formation of Chiral interdigitated multilayers at the air/liquid interface through acid-base interactions
  I. Kuzmenko, R. Buller, W. G. Bouwman, K. Kjaer, J. Als-Nielsen, M. Lahav, and L. Leiserowitz
  Science 274, 2046-2049 (1996).
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.274.5295.2046
• 3D-XY behavior of a Nematic-Smectic-A phase transition: Confirmation of the de Gennes Model
  W.G. Bouwman and W.H. de Jeu.
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 800-803, (1992).
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.800

http://www.iri.tudelft.nl/~bouwman/

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