Frédéric Notices

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Frédéric Merkt (born July 12, 1966 in Neuchâtel ) is a Swiss chemist ( physical chemistry ) who is a professor at the ETH Zurich .

Notices received in 1988 his degree in Chemistry at the ETH Zurich and was at the 1992 Cambridge University doctorate . As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Paris-South in Orsay, at the University of Oxford (Junior Research Fellow at St. John's College, 1992 to 1995) and at Stanford University (1994). From 1995 he was assistant professor for physical chemistry at the ETH with a full professorship (full professor) from 1999.

In 1999 he received the Swiss Latsis Prize and the Alfred Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society and in 2004 the Academy Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . In 2010 he received the Carus Medal of the Leopoldina and the Carus Prize of the City of Schweinfurt, in 2012 the van´t Hoff Prize of the German Bunsen Society and in 2014 the Otto Bayer Prize . He also received the 2010 William F. Meggers Award from the Optical Society of America .

Merkt deals with the electronic structure and dynamics of molecules and atoms in the gas phase with high-resolution spectroscopy, particularly highly excited states (Rydberg states) and interaction with short-wave radiation (photoionization, photoelectron spectroscopy, extreme UV laser (XUV)), reactive States (such as free radicals), Jahn-Teller effect and rotation-vibration interactions, atomic and molecular optics and physical chemistry of atoms and molecules at low temperatures.

Merkt is a member of the Leopoldina , the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Optical Society of America and a member of the European Physical Society. From 2008 to 2011 he was President of the Chemical Research Department of the Swiss Chemical Society. In 2008 he received an ERC Advanced Grant.

Merkt is co-editor of the European Physical Journal D and was co-editor of Molecular Physics from 2003 to 2007 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Frédéric Merkt (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 29, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Notice, Frédéric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuchâtel