Stefan Grimme (born 4 September 1963), is a German physical chemist. He completed a Ph.D. thesis on
photochemistry
Photochemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of light. Generally, this term is used to describe a chemical reaction caused by absorption of ultraviolet (wavelength from 100 to 400 Nanometre, nm), visible ligh ...
at
Technical University of Braunschweig
TU Braunschweig (, unofficially ''University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology'') is the oldest ' (comparable to an institute of technology in the American system) in Germany. It was founded in 1745 as Collegium Carolinum and is a membe ...
in 1991, and has been a professor at the
Universität Bonn
The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Will ...
since 2011. Grimme is active in the field of
computational chemistry
Computational chemistry is a branch of chemistry that uses computer simulations to assist in solving chemical problems. It uses methods of theoretical chemistry incorporated into computer programs to calculate the structures and properties of mol ...
and was elected a member of the
Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (), in short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founded on 1 January 1652, based on academic models in Italy, it was originally named the ''Academi ...
in 2018.
Works
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Literature
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Steven M. Bachrach: Stefan Grimme // Computational Organic Chemistry, 2014.
Awards
*2025 Chemistry Europe Award
*2024 Van-der-Waals-Prize for Senior Scientists for 2025 awarded by the International Advisory Board of the International Conferences on Noncovalent Interactions
*2019 Appointed as Max-Planck-Fellow at the
Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim
*2015 Karl-Ziegler Lectureship Award from
Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim
*2015
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
The German Research Foundation ( ; DFG ) is a German research funding organization, which functions as a self-governing institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2019, the DFG had a funding bu ...
* 2014 Thomson Reuters listed Prof. Dr. Stefan Grimme as a "highly cited chemist" for 2002–2012 in a list of only 300 chemists worldwide
*2013
Schrödinger Medal The Schrödinger Medal is an annual award presented by the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists for "one outstanding theoretical and computational chemist". Prior to 1991, winners were voted on by a committee to multiple chemi ...
of the
World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists
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(WATOC)
See also
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Jörg Behler
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Martin A. Suhm
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Frank Neese
References
External links
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1963 births
Living people
21st-century German chemists
Academic staff of the University of Bonn
Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners
Schrödinger Medal recipients
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