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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and Professor by courtesy of

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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

Küpper went to Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium in

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. From 1991 to 1996, he studied

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, and

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, Pennsylvania. 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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, from 2001 to 2002, and at the FOM-Institute for

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"Rijnhuizen" in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. He then became project leader in the Department of

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at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin-Dahlem, Germany. 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 also a professor by courtesy of chemistry at the University of Hamburg.

Honors and awards

Küpper has 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 also 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