Thorsten Klüner

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Thorsten Klüner (born November 13, 1969 in Bochum ) is a German chemist and professor of theoretical chemistry at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg .

Life

Klüner grew up in Bochum and Witten. From 1989 to 1994 he studied chemistry at the Ruhr University in Bochum . He completed his doctoral thesis in Bochum and was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. PhD. His mentors were Hans-Joachim Freund ( physical chemistry ) and Volker Staemmler (theoretical chemistry). Klüner then worked as a working group leader in the Chemical Physics department at the Fritz Haber Institute , Berlin with Hans-Joachim Freund until 2004 , interrupted by a one-year research stay with Emily A. Carter at the University of California Los Angeles ( UCLA ). In 2004 Klüner became a student at the Humboldt University in Berlin qualified as a professor and accepted the professorship for theoretical chemistry at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Since then he has been working at the Institute for Pure and Applied Chemistry (IRAC) - now Institute for Chemistry (IfC).

Thorsten Klüner is married and has one son.

Act

So far, his research activities have resulted in over 100 scientific publications. The main focus is the theoretical understanding of molecular processes on surfaces. In close cooperation with experimental working groups, catalytic and photochemical issues in particular are investigated. The description of complex phenomena on an ab initio basis requires the development of new theoretical methods, their efficient numerical implementation and their application to relevant physico-chemical issues.

The German National Academic Foundation sponsored Thorsten Kluner's student and doctoral studies for many years. In 1998 he was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society . His research work is funded by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie , the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg , the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , the Volkswagen Foundation , the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and EWE AG .

Publications (selection)

  • I. Brand, M. Nullmeier, T. Klüner, R. Jogireddy, J. Christoffers and G. Wittstock, Langmuir 26 (2010), 362: Structural analysis of the HS (CD2) 12 (O-CH2-CH2) 6OCH3 monolayers on gold by means of polarization modulation infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy. Progress of the reaction with bromine.
  • M. Röefzaad, T. Klüner, I. Brand, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 11 (2009), 10140: Orientation of GM1 ganglioside in Langmuir-Blodgett monolayers: a PM IRRAS and computational study.
  • T. Jung, R. Beckhaus, T. Klüner, S. Höfener, W. Klopper, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 5 (2009), 2044: The unexpected trimerization of pyrazine in the coordination sphere of low valent titanocene fragments.
  • H.-Y. Wang, W.-L. Yim, T. Klüner, JO Metzger, Chem. Eur. J., 15 (2009), 10948: ESI-MS Studies and Calculations on Alkali Metal Adduct Ions of Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts and Their Catalytic Activity in Metathesis Reactions.
  • I. Mehdaoui, T. Klüner, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 10 (2008), 4559: New mechanistic insight into electronically excited CO-NiO (100): A quantum dynamical analysis.
  • W.-L. Yim, T. Kluner., J. Chem. Theory Comput. 4 (2008), 1709: Role of Electrostatic Interactions on Engineering Reaction Barriers: The Case of CO Dissociation on Supported Cobalt Particles.
  • I. Mehdaoui, T. Klüner, J. Phys. Chem. A. 111 (2007), 13233: Bonding of CO and NO to NiO (100): A strategy for obtaining accurate adsorption energies.
  • I. Mehdaoui, T. Klüner *, Phys. Rev. Lett. , 98 (2007), 037601: Understanding Surface Photochemistry from First Principles: The Case of CO-NiO (100).
  • W.-L- Yim, T. Nowitzki, M. Necke, H. Schnars, P. Nickhut, J. Biener, M. Biener, V. Zielasek, K. Al-Shamery, T. Klüner, M. Bäumer, J Phys. Chem. C. 111 (2007), 445: Universal Phenomena of CO Adsorption on Gold Surfaces with Low-coordinated Sites.
  • S. Dittrich, T. Klüner *, Chem. Phys. Lett. 430 (2006), 443: The role of laser pulse duration in the photodesorption of NO / NiO (100).
  • I. Mehdaoui, D. Kröner, M. Pykavy, H.-J. Freund, T. Klüner *, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 8 (2006), 1584: Photo-induced desorption of NO from NiO (100): Calculation of the four-dimensional potential energy surfaces and systematic wave packet studies.
  • S. Dittrich, H.-J. Freund, CP Koch, R. Kosloff, T. Klüner *, J. Chem. Phys. 124 (2006), 024702: Twodimensional surrogate Hamiltonian investigation of laser induced desorption of NO / NiO (100).
  • R. Meyer, D. Lahav, T. Schalow, M. Laurin, B. Brandt, S. Schauermann, S. Guimond, T. Klüner, H. Kuhlenbeck, J. Libuda, Sh. Shaikhutdinov, H.-J. Friend, surf. Sci. 586 (2005), 174: CO adsorption and thermal stability of Pd deposited on a thin FeO (111) film.
  • S. Borowski, T. Klüner *, Chem. Phys. 304 (2004), 51: Massively parallel Hamiltonian action in pseudospectral algorithms applied to quantum dynamics of laser induced desorption.
  • G. Pacchioni, C. Di Valentin, D. Dominguez-Ariza, F. Illas, T. Bredow, T. Klüner, V. Staemmler, J. Phys: Condens. Matter 16 (2004), S2497: Bonding of NH3, CO and NO to NiO and Ni-doped MgO: a problem for density functional theory .

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personal data
SURNAME Kluner, Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum