Jürgen Gauss

Jürgen Gauß (born August 13, 1960 in Konstanz ) is a German theoretical chemist .

Life

Jürgen Gauß studied chemistry at the University of Cologne from 1979 to 1984 . After receiving his diploma on the “development of an unconventional SCF method for calculating large molecules” , he received his doctorate in Cologne in 1988 with a thesis on the subject of “Ab initio calculation of molecular properties using analytical derivations”. He then worked as a postdoc at the University of Washington in Seattle and on the Quantum Theory Project at the University of Florida in Gainesville . He completed his habilitation in 1994 at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in theoretical chemistry with the topic "Ab initio calculation of chemical NMR shifts taking into account the electron correlation ". In autumn 1995 he took over a C3 professorship at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and has held a C4 professorship there since autumn 2001.

Jürgen Gauß deals with questions of quantum chemistry and their implementation in computational chemistry . In 2005 he was awarded the Leibniz Prize for his work .