Kaestner group 2024

The Kästner Group

Team

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, many best-paper and best-poster awards and several fellowships and stipends.

Post-Docs

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   
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

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

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

Thanja Lamberts

SimTech guest professor from Leiden University 2024

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
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