Jürgen Gauß

Jürgen Gauss ( born August 13 1960 in Konstanz ) is a German theoretical chemist.

Life

Jürgen Gauss studied from 1979 to 1984 chemistry at the University of Cologne. After receiving his diploma on the "Development of an unconventional SCF method for calculating large molecules ", he earned his doctorate in 1988 in Cologne, Germany with a thesis on " Ab initio calculation of molecular properties using analytical derivations ". He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle and at the Quantum Theory Project at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He habilitated in 1994 at the University of Karlsruhe ( TH) in theoretical chemistry with the theme " Ab initio calculation of chemical NMR shifts taking into account the electron correlation ." He took over in the fall of 1995, a C3 professorship at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and has held there since the fall of 2001 a C4 professorship.

Work

Jürgen Gauss concerned with questions of quantum chemistry and its application in computational chemistry. In 2005 he was honored for his work with the Leibniz Prize.

Awards

• University Price, University of Cologne, 1988
• Faculty scholarship fund of the Chemical Industry, 1995
• Carl Duisberg Memorial Award, Society of German Chemists, 1996
• Medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, 1997
• Academy Award of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, 2003
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, German Research Foundation, 2005