Jörg Behler,
Ph.D.
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(2004),
Dr. habil. (2014), is a German chemist, who is active in the field of
theoretical chemistry
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; he is a professor of the
Ruhr University Bochum
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since November 2022.
Education
Jörg Behler earned his bachelor's degree in Chemistry from 1995 to 2000 at
University of Dortmund
TU Dortmund University (german: Technische Universität Dortmund) is a technical university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 35,000 students, and over 6,000 staff including 300 professors, offering around 80 Bachelor's and ...
.
[ He then completed his PhD with Karsten Reuter and ]Matthias Scheffler
Matthias Scheffler (born June 25, 1951, in Berlin) is a German theoretical physicist whose research focuses on Condensed matter physics, condensed matter theory, materials science, and artificial intelligence. He is particularly known for his con ...
at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (FHI) is a science research institute located at the heart of the academic district of Dahlem, in Berlin, Germany.
The original Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochem ...
with a thesis entitled "Dissociation of Oxygen Molecules on the Al(111) Surface".Ruhr University Bochum
The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began in ...
as a research associate, then head of a junior research group.[ In 2017, Behler moved to the University of Göttingen as a Full Professor of Theoretical Chemistry.][ In November 2022 he returned to ]Ruhr University Bochum
The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began in ...
.
Awards
* Otto Hahn Medal
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– Max-Planck-Society (2005);[
* Hans G. A. Hellmann Award – Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Theoretische Chemie (2013).][
]
See also
* Stefan Grimme
Stefan Grimme (born 1963), is a German physical chemist; he completed a Ph.D. thesis on photochemistry at Technical University of Braunschweig in 1991; he is a professor at the Universität Bonn since 2011 who is active in the field of computatio ...
* Roman M. Balabin
* Martin A. Suhm
References
External links
* James Sudlow
Clever computers find solutions to NaOH structural puzzle
// Chemistry World, 24 November 2016.
Living people
21st-century German chemists
Academic staff of the University of Göttingen
Year of birth missing (living people)
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