Ove Christiansen (born November 13, 1969, in Holstebro, Denmark) is professor of chemistry at the Department of Chemistry,

Aarhus University Aarhus University ( da, Aarhus Universitet, abbreviated AU) is a public research university with its main campus located in Aarhus, Denmark. It is the second largest and second oldest university in Denmark. The university is part of the Coimbra Gr ...

(AU), Denmark. He is contributor to the DALTON program package and initiated the MidasCpp (Molecular Interactions Dynamics and Simulations in C++) progra

for the accurate description of nuclear dynamics with means of Coupled Cluster Theory.

Research

Ove Christiansen made important contributions to electronic structure theory by introducing the CC2 and CC3 method and by establishing a hierarchy of

Coupled cluster Coupled cluster (CC) is a numerical technique used for describing many-body systems. Its most common use is as one of several post-Hartree–Fock ab initio quantum chemistry methods in the field of computational chemistry, but it is also used in ...

electronic structure models: CCS, CC2, CCSD, CC3, etc.. He introduced contributions to response theory for the purpose of describing electronic excited states. Later he changed the emphasis of his main research interest towards vibrational structure theory and defined a variant of vibrational Coupled cluster (VCC) and developed the theoretical machinery for automatic derivation and implementation of VCC. Moreover, he defined vibrational response theory for various wave function types. All these progress is assembled in the publicly available MidasCpp program suit

Academic career

Ove Christiansen received his PhD in Theoretical Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Poul Jørgensen (chemist), Poul Jørgensen at

Denmark in 1997. Afterwards he joined from 1997 to 1999 as Alexander von Humboldt fellow the group of Prof.

Jürgen Gauß Jürgen Gauß (Juergen Gauss) is a German theoretical chemist. Gauß was born on 13 August 1960 in Konstanz. He studied chemistry at the University of Cologne from 1979 till 1984. After finishing his PhD thesis on abinitio calculations at the Uni ...

in Mainz Germany and later went to the University of Lund in Sweden, where he became a

Docent The title of docent is conferred by some European universities to denote a specific academic appointment within a set structure of academic ranks at or below the full professor rank, similar to a British readership, a French " ''maître de conf ...

in 2000. In 2002 he returned to Aarhus University as Associate Professor, became Professor MSO (Professor with special obligations) in 2013 and was promoted to a full Professor in 2018.

Awards

* 2013: EliteForsk award * 2006: EURYI Award

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Christiansen, Ove 1969 births Living people Theoretical chemists Danish chemists Academic staff of Aarhus University Computational chemists People from Holstebro