Hannes Jónsson

Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Iceland, w. research activity at the the Science Institute

Education and training:

B.S. in Chemistry, University of Iceland, 1980
Ph.D., University of California San Diego, 1985 (advisor John H. Weare).
Post-doc, Stanford University, 1986-1988 (advisor Hans C. Andersen).

Employment:

University of Washington, Assistant / Associate Professor of Chemistry 1988-1998.
University of Washington, Professor 1999-2005.
University of Iceland, Professor 2000-.

Other professional appointments:

University of Washington, Adjunct Professor, Physics Department 1994.
University of Washington, Adjunct Professor, Materials Sci. and Engineering Dpt. 1994.
Pacific Northwest Natl. Labs, Affiliate Staff Scientist, Richland, WA 1994.
Technical Univ. of Denmark, Physics Department, Visiting Professor 1995.
Technical Univ. of Denmark, Physics Department, Visiting Professor 2004.
Adjunct Professor, Chemistry Department, Brown University, Providence RI, 2005-2022.
SLAC/Stanford, SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, Visiting Professor 2010.
Aalto University, Finland Distinguished Professor in Applied Physics Dpt. 2013-2016.
Adjunct Professor, Applied Physics Department, Aalto University, Finland 2018-2023.
Ulam scholar, at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos 2017-2018.
Otto Moensted scholar, at the Department of Energy Conversion and Storage of the Technical University of Denmark 2018.

Articles in scientific journals

Google Scholar lists > 70 000 citations to these articles and H-index = 70. Citations listed by Scopus.

Recent research presentations

Organization of Scientific Symposia, Workshops and Summer Schools

Miscellaneous:

  • Computational science teaching award (See article in IEEE Computational Science & Engineeering), 1995.
  • On editorial board of the ACS surface science journal 'Langmuir' Jan 1997-2000
  • Director of Chemistry Division, Science Institute of the Univ. of Iceland 2005-2011
  • On editorial board of the Elsevier journal 'Surface Science' Jan 2004-2009
  • On editorial board of the journal 'Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics' 2012-.
  • Member of the advisory board of the 'Exascale Catalytic Chemistry (ECC)' project organized by Sandia Labs. in Livermore.

  • Longer CV in pdf file

    The research group