Group Leader
Post-Docs
Doctoral Students
Guests
Students
Former members
Prizes and Awards
Our group is very well recognized. Several members received prizes and awards, among them the Hellmann-Preis der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Theoretische Chemie (AGTC), a Lise Meitner OYGA Lecturer, the Sigrid-Peyerimhoff-Promotionspreis für Theoretische Chemie, the CIC-Förderpreises für Computational Chemistry, the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Preis der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft für herausragende interdisziplinäre Promotionsarbeiten, the Bürkert-Universitätspreis, Rolf-Sammet-Preis, Artur-Fischer-Preis, IC SimTech Awards for outstanding theses, a best-presentation award, many best-paper and best-poster awards and several fellowships and stipends.
Post-Docs
| Dario Campisi | 2022-2024 | Humboldt fellow, now Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark |
| Viktor Zaverkin | 2022-2023 | now NEC Laboratories Europe |
| Germán Molpeceres | 2019-2022 | Humboldt fellow, now Ramón y Cajal Researcher at CSIC Madrid, Spain |
| April Miksch | 2020-2021 | now Zeiss SMT |
| Tahamida Banu | 2019-2021 | now researcher, R&D division, Tata Steel Ltd., Jamshedpur, India |
| Manoj K. Kesharwani | 2018-2020 | |
| Prof. Christopher N. Shingledecker | 2018-2020 | Humboldt fellow, now assistant professor at Virginia Military Institute |
| Sonia Álvarez Barcia | 2015-2020 | now HQS Quantum Simulations |
| Prof. Jan Meisner | 2018 | then Stanford University, USA, now tenure-track professor at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Mark Pfeiffle | 2018 | now BASF |
| Sean R. McConnel | 2015-2018 | now Robert Bosch AG |
| Prof. Thanja Lamberts | 2015-2017 | Humboldt fellow, now assistant professor at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry and Leiden Observatory |
| Lei Song | 2015-2017 | then Eindhoven University of Technology, now DLL |
| Prof. Subhendu Roy | 2014-2016 | now associate professor at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics Kolkata, India |
| Enrique Abad González | 2012-2014 | Humboldt fellow, now Henkel |
| M. Ali Celik | 2011-2014 | |
| Prof. Nahren Manuel Mascarenhas | 2010-2012 | now assistant professor at Sacred Heart College, Tirupattur, India |
Doctoral Students
|
Katrin Gugler |
2020-2024 | now SC SimTech |
|
Sina Klostermann |
2020-2024 | now VARTA AG |
| Juliane Heitkämper | 2019-2023 | now German Aerospace Center (DLR), Ulm |
| Viktor Zaverkin | 2019-2022 | now NEC Laboratories Europe |
| Robin Schuldt | 2018-2022 | now Zeiss SMT |
| April Miksch | 2016-2020 | now Zeiss SMT |
| Alexander Denzel | 2017-2020 | now FARO Technologies |
| Andreas Löhle | 2015-2019 | now financial services |
| Jan Meisner | 2013-2017 | then Stanford University, USA, now tenure-track professor at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Laura Nunes dos Santos Comprido | 2013-2017 | graduated at Heidelberg University, now University of Groningen |
| Matthias Bohner | 2011-2015 | then Insilico Biotechnology, now EnBW |
| Judith Rommel | 2009-2012 | now University of Cambridge |
Guests
|
Daniel González Pinardo |
visiting doctoral student from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain | 2025 |
|
Luuk Kempen |
visiting doctoral student from Aarhus University, Denmark | 2024 |
|
Nadjib Rais |
visiting doctoral student from Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy | 2024 |
|
Mora Filgueira Parravicini |
Erasmus+ Trainee from the University of the Balearic Islands | 2024 |
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Thanja Lamberts |
SimTech guest professor from Leiden University | 2024 |
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Giulia Bovolenta |
exchange doctoral student from Universidad de Concepción,Chile | 2022 |
| Jan Postulka | exchange doctoral student from University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic | 2022 |
| Emanuele Falbo | exchange doctoral student from Newcastle University, UK | 2019 |
| Sebastián Miranda Rojas | regular guest from Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile | April–July 2014, January 2017, July 2017, June 2018, July 2024 |
| Lisa Golka | guest | 2015-2018 |
| Germán Molpeceres | exchange doctoral student from the Institute for the Structure of Matter, Madrid, Spain | 2018 |
| Yuki Mitsuta | exchange doctoral student from Osaka University, Japan | 2017 |
| Kirill Zinovjev | exchange doctoral student from University of Valencia, Spain | 2016 |
| Sonia Álvarez Barcia | exchange doctoral student from University of Vigo, Spain | 2013 |
| Eric Alt | visiting RISE student from the US | 2013 |
| Fedor Goumans | guest researcher from Leiden University in the HPC-Europa2 programme | 2009 |