Daan Frenkel ForMemRS MAE[3] (born 1948, Amsterdam) is a Dutch computational physicist in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.

[2] Between 1987 and 2007, Frenkel carried out his research at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam where he has been employed since 1987.

[2][9] Frenkel has co-authored together with Berend Smit Understanding Molecular Simulation, which has grown into a handbook used worldwide[citation needed] by aspiring computational physicists.

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