Fields of scientific research

• Polaron
  Polaron
  A polaron is a quasiparticle composed of a charge and its accompanying polarization field. A slow moving electron in a dielectric crystal, interacting with lattice ions through long-range forces will permanently be surrounded by a region of lattice polarization and deformation caused by the moving...
  
  s, in particular their optical and magnetooptical properties, quantum theory
  Quantum field theory
  Quantum field theory provides a theoretical framework for constructing quantum mechanical models of systems classically parametrized by an infinite number of dynamical degrees of freedom, that is, fields and many-body systems. It is the natural and quantitative language of particle physics and...
  
   of solid matter, superconductivity
  Superconductivity
  Superconductivity is a phenomenon of exactly zero electrical resistance occurring in certain materials below a characteristic temperature. It was discovered by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes on April 8, 1911 in Leiden. Like ferromagnetism and atomic spectral lines, superconductivity is a quantum...
  
   and superfluidity, Feynman path integrals and mathematical methods, structures with reduced dimension and dimensionality, nanophysics.

Publications

• 433 specialized publications in international scientific journals with referee system.
• 713 communications at international conferences, including 158 invited.
• 192 invited seminars at foreign universities, industrial laboratories and research centers in Europe, USA and Japan.
• 16 books, including volumes related to international conferences and symposia.
• about 4500 citations of his work by colleagues-researchers according to the International Science Citation Index (ISCI).

Books

1. J.T. Devreese, ed.: Polarons in Ionic Crystals and Polar Semiconductors (808 p.) Proceedings of the 1971 Antwerp Advanced Study Institute on Fröhlich Polarons and Electron-Phonon Interaction in Polar Semiconductors, North-Holland Publ. Co., Amsterdam (1972).
2. J.T. Devreese, A.B. Kunz, T.C. Collins, eds.: Elementary Excitations in Solids, Molecules and Atoms, part A (375 p.) and part B (385 p.). Proceedings of the 1973 Antwerp Advanced Study Institute, Plenum Publishing Corp., London (1974).
3. J.T. Devreese, R. Evrard, V.E. Van Doren, eds.: Highly Conducting One-Dimensional Solids (422 p.), Plenum Publishing Corp., New York (1978).
4. J.T. Devreese, F. Brosens, eds.: Electron Correlations in Solids, Molecules and Atoms (435 p.). Proceedings of the 1981 Antwerp Advanced Study Institute, Plenum Publishing Corp., New York (1983).
5. J.T. Devreese, F.M. Peeters, eds.: Polarons and Excitons in Polar Semiconductors and Ionic Crystals (471 p.). Proceedings of the 1982 Antwerp Advanced Study Institute, Plenum Publishing Corp., New York (1984).
6. J.T. Devreese, F.M. Peeters, eds.: The Physics of the Two-Dimensional Electron Gas (441 p.). Proceedings of the 1986 Antwerp Advanced Study Institute, Plenum Publishing Corp., New York (1987).
7. J.T. Devreese, G. Vanden Berghe, Wonder en is gheen wonder. De geniale wereld van Simon Stevin
   Simon Stevin
   Simon Stevin was a Flemish mathematician and military engineer. He was active in a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical...
   
    1548-1620 (342 pp.), Davidsfonds, Leuven (2003).
8. J.T. Devreese, G. Vanden Berghe, Magic is No Magic'. The Wonderful World of Simon Stevin
   Simon Stevin
   Simon Stevin was a Flemish mathematician and military engineer. He was active in a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical...
   
    (310 pp.), WIT Press, Ashurst, Southampton (2007).

Encyclopedic Reviews

1. J.T. Devreese, Polarons, in Encyclopedia of Physics, Eds. R. Lerner and G. Trigg, (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1981) pp. 772 - 774.
2. J.T. Devreese, Polarons, in Encyclopedia of Applied Physics, edited by G.L. Trigg (VCH Publishers, Weinheim, 1996), vol. 14, pp. 383 – 413.
3. J.T. Devreese, Polarons in semiconductors, Encyclopedia of Modern Optics, Five-Volume Set, edited by B. D. Guenther, D. G. Steel and L. Bayvel (Academic Press, 2004), Paper 629.
4. J. T. Devreese Electron-Phonon Interactions and the Response of Polarons, in Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics, 6 vols. set, edited by G. Bassani, G. Liedl, and P. Wyder, (Elsevier, 2005), pp. 99 – 109.
5. J. T. Devreese, Polaron
   Polaron
   A polaron is a quasiparticle composed of a charge and its accompanying polarization field. A slow moving electron in a dielectric crystal, interacting with lattice ions through long-range forces will permanently be surrounded by a region of lattice polarization and deformation caused by the moving...
   
   , in Encyclopedia of Physics, 2 vols. set, edited by R.G. Lerner and G. L. Trigg (Wiley-VCH, 2005), vol. 2, pp. 2004 – 2027.
6. J. T. Devreese, Polarons and Bipolarons in Nanostructures. Part I. Fröhlich Polarons. Concepts and Recent Developments, in: Handbook of Semiconductor Nanostructures and Nanodevices, edited by A. A. Balandin and K. L. Wang (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, 2006), Vol. 4, pp. 311-337.
7. J. T. Devreese, V. M. Fomin, E. P. Pokatilov, Polarons and Bipolarons in Nanostructures. Part II. Polaron Effects in Nanostructures, in: Handbook of Semiconductor Nanostructures and Nanodevices, edited by A. A. Balandin and K. L. Wang (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, 2006), Vol. 4, pp. 339-407.
8. J. T. Devreese, Fröhlich Polarons from 3D to 0D: Concepts and Recent Developments, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 19, 255201 (1-23) (2007).
9. J. T. Devreese, Optical Properties of Few and Many Fröhlich Polarons from 3D to 0D, in Polarons in Advanced Materials, Springer Series in Materials Science , Vol. 103, edited by A. S. Alexandrov (Canopus and Springer, Bath, UK, 2007), pp. 3-62.

Selected papers

1. E. Kartheuser, R. Evrard, J. Devreese, Mechanism of absorption of light by free continuum polarons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 22, 94-97 (1969).
2. L.F. Lemmens, J.T. Devreese, F. Brosens, On the ground state energy of a gas of interacting polarons, Phys. Stat. Sol. (b) 82, 439-447 (1977).
3. P.E. Van Camp, V.E. Van Doren, J.T. Devreese, Microscopic screening and phonon dispersion of Silicon: moment expansion for the polarizability, Phys. Rev. Lett. 42, 1224-1227 (1979).
4. J.T. Devreese, F. Brosens, L.F. Lemmens, Dielectric function of the electron gas with dynamical-exchange decoupling. I. Analytical treatment, Phys. Rev. B 21, 1349-1362 (1980).
5. F. Brosens, J.T. Devreese, L.F. Lemmens, Dielectric function of the electron gas with dynamical-exchange decoupling. II. Discussion and results, Phys. Rev. B 21, 1363-1379 (1980).
6. J. W. Hodby, G. P. Russell, F. M. Peeters, J. T. Devreese, D. M. Larsen, Cyclotron resonance of polarons in the silver halide AgBr and AgCl, Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 1471-1474 (1987).
7. F. Brosens, J.T. Devreese and L. Lemmens, Thermodynamics of coupled identical oscillators within the path-integral formalism, Phys. Rev. E 55, 227-236 (1997).
8. E. Seynaeve, K. Temst, F. G. Aliev, C. Van Haesendonck, V. N. Gladilin, V. M. Fomin, and J. T. Devreese, Impurity spin magnetization of thin Fe doped Au films, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2593-2596 (2000).
9. J. Tempere, I. F. Silvera, and J. T. Devreese, Effect of pressure on statics, dynamics, and stability of multielectron bubbles, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 275301, 1-4 (2001).
10. V.R. Misko, V.M. Fomin, J.T. Devreese, V.V. Moshchalkov, Stable vortex
    Vortex
    A vortex is a spinning, often turbulent,flow of fluid. Any spiral motion with closed streamlines is vortex flow. The motion of the fluid swirling rapidly around a center is called a vortex...
    
    -antivortex molecules in mesoscopic superconducting triangles, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 147003 (1-4) (2003).
11. V. A. Fonoberov, E. P. Pokatilov, V. M. Fomin, and J. T. Devreese, Photoluminescence of tetrahedral quantum dot
    Quantum dot
    A quantum dot is a portion of matter whose excitons are confined in all three spatial dimensions. Consequently, such materials have electronic properties intermediate between those of bulk semiconductors and those of discrete molecules. They were discovered at the beginning of the 1980s by Alexei...
    
     quantum wells, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 127402, 1-4 (2004).
12. S. N. Klimin, J. T. Devreese, Comment on "Fröhlich mass in GaAs-based structures", Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 239701 (2005).
13. P. Offermans, P.M. Koenraad, J.H. Wolter, D. Granados, J.M. García, V.M. Fomin, V.N. Gladilin, J.T. Devreese, Atomic-scale structure of self-assembled In(Ga)As quantum rings in GaAs, Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 131902, 1-3 (2005).
14. G. De Filippis, V. Cataudella, A. S. Mishchenko, C. A. Perroni, and J. T. Devreese, Validity of the Franck-Condon Principle
    Franck-Condon principle
    The Franck–Condon principle is a rule in spectroscopy and quantum chemistry that explains the intensity of vibronic transitions. Vibronic transitions are the simultaneous changes in electronic and vibrational energy levels of a molecule due to the absorption or emission of a photon of the...
    
     in the Optical Spectroscopy: Optical Conductivity of the Fröhlich Polaron, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136405, 1-4 (2006).
15. J. T. Devreese and J. Tempere, Bose-Einstein Condensation, in McGraw-Hill 2006 Yearbook of Science and Technology (McGraw-Hill, New York, 2006), pp. 38-40.
16. J. T. Devreese, Importance of Nanosensors: Feynman's Vision and the Birth of Nanotechnology, MRS Bulletin 32, 718 (2007).
17. N. A. J. M. Kleemans, I. M. A. Bominaar-Silkens, V. M. Fomin, V. N. Gladilin, D. Granados, A. G. Taboada, J. M. García, P. Offermans, U. Zeitler, P. C. M. Christianen, J. C. Maan, J. T. Devreese, and P. M. Koenraad, Oscillatory Persistent Currents in Self-Assembled Quantum Rings, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146808, 1-4 (2007).

Functions and initiatives

• Founder and co-ordinator of the research group "Theoretische Fysica van de Vaste Stoffen" (TFVS-UA). In 2003: co-operation with 20 external laboratories.
• Chairman of 23 international conferences and symposia.
• Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) (1980-1986) and originator of the series of General Conferences of this division.
• Co-ordinator (1984-1989) of the IMS (Institute for Materials Sciences) at the Universiteit Antwerpen.
• Co-ordinator of research projects [GOA (Concerted Research Action), IAP (Interuniversity Attraction Poles), FWO-V (Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders), EU etc].
• Former member of the commissions of IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics), EPS, NFWO
  NFWO
  The National Fund for Scientific Research is a government institution in Belgium for supporting scientific research...
  
   (National Fund for Scientific Research), NRWB (National Council for Science Policy), EU committees.

Distinctions / awards

• Three-anuual prize for exact and natural sciences of the "Vlaamse Leergangen" of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is a Dutch-speaking university in Flanders, Belgium.It is located at the centre of the historic town of Leuven, and is a prominent part of the city, home to the university since 1425...
  
   (1972).
• Fellow of the American Physical Society
  American Physical Society
  The American Physical Society is the world's second largest organization of physicists, behind the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The Society publishes more than a dozen scientific journals, including the world renowned Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and organizes more than 20...
  
   (1990), Fellow of the European Physical Society (2006) and Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK (2000).
• Doctor Honoris Causa of the State University of Moldova (1995), Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova
  Moldova
  Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
  
   (2001).
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  The European Academy of Sciences and Arts was created in 1990 in Salzburg, Austria by heart surgeon Felix Unger of Salzburg; the cardinal archbishop of Vienna, Franz König; and the political scientist and philosopher Nikolaus Lobkowicz....
  
   (Salzburg, 2005).
• Fellow of the European Physical Society (2006).

Cultural interests

• As amateur of music, he was involved in the realization on the Metzler organ in the Our Lady Cathedral
  Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp
  The Cathedral of Our Lady is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Antwerp, Belgium. Today's see of the Diocese of Antwerp was started in 1352 and, although the first stage of construction was ended in 1521, has never been 'completed'. In Gothic style, its architects were Jan and Pieter Appelmans...
  
   in Antwerpen (1993) and he was chairman (2000-2002) of the Flemish Institute for Organ Art (VIVO).
• http://home.wxs.nl/~hopfam/Devreese.htmlStudy of the work of Simon Stevin
  Simon Stevin
  Simon Stevin was a Flemish mathematician and military engineer. He was active in a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical...
  
  ]. In 2003, Davidsfonds
  Davidsfonds
  The Davidsfonds is a Catholic organisation in Flanders, Belgium with the purpose of promoting the Flemish culture in the areas of literature, history and art....
  
   published the book: Wonder en is gheen Wonder - De geniale wereld van Simon Stevin, written by Jozef T. Devreese and Guido Vanden Berghe.
• Promotion of the Dutch Language
  Dutch language
  Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
  
  and Culture in the internationalized society.

External links

• Web page of J. T. Devreese