Frank Neese
Günther Frank Neese ( born December 13, 1967 in Wiesbaden ) is a German theoretical chemist. The focus of his scientific work is the calculation of the electronic structure of large molecules. Since 2011 he is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Mülheim an der Ruhr.
Biography
After graduating from high school in 1987 at the Martin- Niemöller - School in Wiesbaden Neese studied from 1987 to 1993 Biology at the University of Konstanz, where he also received his doctorate in 1997. After two years of research at Stanford University in the United States, he habilitated in 2001 in Konstanz. By 2006 he was at the Mülheim Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry, whereupon he was appointed professor at the University of Bonn. More calls to the University of Heidelberg, the University of Manchester and the Pennsylvania State University, he refused.
Research area
With his work on the calculation of the electronic structure of large molecules allows Frank Neese experimentally working scientists in many fields of work, interpret their results accurately and efficiently and to identify new meaningful experiments. His theoretical works are based on knowledge of quantum mechanics, whose laws determine the behavior of all matter at the atomic scale. Frank Neese approximate solutions for the complicated quantum mechanical equations recorded and made available to the world in a simple way with his program package ORCA for experimental researchers, physicists, chemists and biochemists.
Awards
2005 Neese was the Karl-Arnold - Prize of the Academy of Sciences of North Rhine -Westphalia and the Hans GA Hellmann Award of the Association for Theoretical Chemistry awarded. In 2008 he was appointed Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry. Also in 2008 he received the equipped with 100,000 euros Klungkung Wilhelmy Weberbank Prize for Chemistry, the largest prize for young scientists in Germany. In 2010 he received for his research achievements in the field of theoretical chemistry awarded by the DFG 's Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, which is worth 2.5 million euros. In 2013 he was elected to the Leopoldina.
Writings
- Physicochemical analysis of polynuclear metal centers in nitrous oxide reductase, cytochrome c oxidase and manganese - superoxide dismutase. In 1993. S. N.
- Electronic structure and spectroscopy of novel copper chromophores in biology. UFO, Studio for Design and Publishing, Allen Bach 1997.