Florian Müller-Plathe

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Florian Müller-Plathe (* 1960 in Hamburg ) is a German theoretical chemist and professor for theoretical physical chemistry at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

Career

Müller-Plathe studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received his doctorate in 1988 from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching under the supervision of Geerd Diercksen . As a research assistant, he spent several years at the Daresbury Laboratory in Warrington, UK, and at the ETH Zurich , where he completed his habilitation in 1994 under Wilfred F. van Gunsteren as a private lecturer in physical chemistry. From 1996 to 2002 he was a research group leader for computational chemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, before accepting a professorship at Jacobs University Bremen in 2002 . Since 2005 Müller-Plathe has been Professor of Theoretical Physical Chemistry at the TU Darmstadt; from 2007 to 2013 he was Vice Dean for Research in the Department of Chemistry. From 2008 to 2014 he was the spokesman for the priority program 1369 “Polymer-Solid-State Contacts - Boundaries & Interphases” of the German Research Foundation .

From 2015 to 2016 he was a visiting fellow in the Chemical and Biological Engineering department at Princeton University , USA. Between 1995 and 2000 he was visiting professor at the Universidade de São Paulo , Instituto de Física, Brazil.

Müller-Plathe has been the publisher of the specialist journal “Soft Materials” since 2001.

He is co-founder and co-owner of inter Culturas, a management consultancy that specializes in intercultural training and diversity management. Müller-Plathe's focus is on training for leading multinational teams and projects.

Research interests

Müller-Plathe's field of work includes the molecular simulation of systems of soft matter with a focus on polymers and polymer materials, e.g. B. Polymerinterphasen, and molecular processes occurring in them, e.g. B. Permeation. A considerable part is accounted for by the development of new simulation processes, algorithms, software and models. Processes going back to Müller-Plathe are z. B. the iterative Boltzmann inversion for the generation of systematically simplified polymer models, the "reverse non-equilibrium molecular dynamics" method for calculating thermal conductivity and shear viscosity and the "phantom wall" method for calculating interfacial tensions between liquids and solid substrates.

Prizes and awards

In 2014 he received the Athene Special Prize for Interdisciplinary Teaching from the Giersch Foundation.

From 1979 to 1985 he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation

Memberships

Since 2009 Müller-Plathe has been a full member of the mathematical and natural science class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry , Working Group Theoretical Chemistry.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TVM Ndoro, E. Voyiatzis, A. Ghanbari, DN Theodorou, MC Böhm and F. Müller-Plathe: Interface of grafted and ungrafted silica nanoparticles with a polystyrene matrix: Atomistic molecular dynamics simulations. In: Macromolecules. Volume 44, 2011, pp. 2316-2327, DOI: 10.1021 / ma102833u
  2. ^ F. Müller-Plathe: Permeation of Polymers - A Computational Approach. In: Acta Polymer. Volume 45, 1994, pp. 259-293, DOI: 10.1002 / actp.1994.010450401
  3. ↑ D. Reith, M. Pütz and F. Müller-Plathe: Deriving Effective Mesoscale Potentials from Atomistic Simulations. In: J. Comp. Chem. Volume 24, 2003, pp. 1624-1636, DOI: 10.1002 / jcc.10307
  4. ^ F. Müller-Plathe: A Simple Non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Method for Calculating the Thermal Conductivity. In: J. Chem. Phys. Volume 106, 1997, pp. 6082-6085, DOI: 10.1063 / 1.473271
  5. ^ F. Leroy and F. Müller-Plathe: Solid-liquid surface free energy of Lennard-Jones liquid on smooth and rough surfaces computed by molecular dynamics using the phantom wall method. In: J. Chem. Phys. Volume 133, 2010, p. 044110, DOI: 10.1063 / 1.3458796
  6. ↑ https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/media/illustrationen/referat_kommunikation/pressemommunikations/2014_3/76-2014-Athene-Preis.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Plathe, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theoretical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg