Christian Ochsenfeld

Christian Ochsenfeld (* 1968 in Karlsruhe ) is a German theoretical chemist and professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU).

Ochsenfeld studied chemistry in Karlsruhe , where he received his doctorate in 1994 under Reinhart Ahlrichs with the dissertation Theoretical investigations on alkali halide clusters . He was a post-doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley until 1998 . He then received a Liebig and Emmy Noether scholarship at the University of Mainz , became a professor at the University of Tübingen in 2002 and a professor of theoretical chemistry at the LMU in 2010.

He deals with linearly scaling ab initio methods for large systems of molecules, calculation of molecular properties (e.g. NMR spectra) and intermolecular forces. He applied quantum mechanical calculations and simulation in molecular biology , for example in DNA repair .

In 2017 he organized the WATOC Congress in Munich .

Fonts

• Quantum chemistry for molecules with 1000 and more atoms, Nachrichten aus der Chemie , Volume 58, 2010, p. 331
• with J. Kussmann, F. Koziol: Ab-Initio NMR Spectra for Molecular Systems with a Thousand and More Atoms: A Linear-Scaling Method, Angew. Chemistry Int. Ed., Vol. 43, 2004, pp. 4485-4489

Web links

• Website at the University of Munich
• Christian Ochsenfeld at Theoretical Chemistry Genealogy Project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dates of birth according to Kürschner, Scholars Calendar 2009.