Research Group of Walter Thiel   

b. 1949 in Treysa; 1966-1971 chemistry studies at Universität Marburg; 1973 Ph.D. Universität Marburg (A. Schweig); 1973-1975 Post-Doc University of Texas at Austin (M.J.S. Dewar); 1981 Habilitation Universität Marburg; 1983-1992 Associate Professor of  Theoretical Chemistry Universität Wuppertal; 1987 Guest Professor University of California at Berkeley; 1992-1999 Full Professor of Chemistry Universität Zürich; since 1999 Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung; since 2001 Honorary Professor Universität Düsseldorf.

1975 Liebig Fellowship of the Verband der Chemischen Industrie; 1982 Heisenberg Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; 1988 Förderpreis of the Alfried-Krupp Stiftung; 2002 WATOC Schrödinger Medal; 2007 Member of  Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina; 2007 Member of International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences.

International Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

Festschrift: Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2009, 113 (43)

Research Interests:

Theoretical chemistry, computational chemistry, quantum chemistry; ab initio methods, density functional theory, semiempirical methods, combined QM/MM methods.

Research report 2005-2007
Research report 2002-2004
Research report 2000-2001
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Group members (July 2009)