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Frank de Groot

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Leverhulme Visiting Professor; X-ray Spectroscopy

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Research Interests

The focus of Frank’s work is the theoretical and the experimental aspects of X-ray spectroscopy. His current interest is in the use of X-ray spectroscopies for the study of the electronic and magnetic structure of condensed matter and batteries & catalysts under working conditions.

Biography

Frank de Groot studied Chemistry at the University of Nijmegen, where he continued with his Ph.D. degree (cum laude) under supervision of John Fuggle. The title of his 1991 thesis was ‘X-ray absorption spectroscopy of transition metal oxides’. From 1992, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the LURE Synchrotron in Orsay, France and at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Since 1998 he works at Utrecht University, from 2009 as professor X-ray spectroscopy.

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