Jochen Küpper FRSC (born 1971) is a

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, group leader at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, and

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at the

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. Küpper is best known for his pioneering work on the control of complex neutral molecules, including the spatial separation of structural isomers and their laser-alignment and mixed-field orientation. He develops novel techniques to control the external and internal degrees of freedom of neutral molecules and exploits these well-defined samples in experiments to image their nuclear and electronic structure and dynamics.

Education and career

Jochen Küpper went to Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium in Leverkusen,

. From 1991 to 1996 he studied

at Heinrich Heine University,

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, Pittsburgh, PA. In 2000 he received his doctorate in Physical Chemistry from Heinrich Heine University,

. In 2009 he received the

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for his work on the control of large, neutral molecules at Free University Berlin. He was Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Society at the

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at Chapel Hill, NC, USA from 2001 to 2002 and at the FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics "Rijnhuizen" in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. He then became project leader in the Department of Molecular Physics at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin-Dahlem,

. Since 2010 he is a Professor of Physics at

and a research group leader at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science and

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and since 2015 he is a

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at the

Honors and awards

Jochen Küpper received several awards, including the prestigious Nernst Haber Bodenstein Prize of the German Bunsen-Society for Physical Chemistry< in 2009 and an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2013. He was elected as

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of the

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in 2014. He was awarded the following prizes throughout the years, * Kandarpa Narahari Rao Prize (2000) * Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2001) * Nernst Haber Bodenstein Prize of the German Bunsen-Society for Physical Chemistry (2009)

Works

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References

External links

Controlled Molecule Imaging group

Center for Free-Electron Laser Science

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kupper, Jochen Academic staff of the University of Hamburg 21st-century German physicists Living people Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry 1971 births People from Leverkusen Free University of Berlin alumni German physical chemists University of Pittsburgh alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni