Wolfram Koch (chemist)

Wolfram Koch (born July 18, 1959 in Darmstadt ) is a German theoretical chemist and science manager. Since 2002 he has been the managing director of the Society of German Chemists .

Life

Wolfram Koch studied chemistry in Darmstadt and at the TU Berlin . In 1986 he did his doctorate at the TU under Helmut Schwarz with a thesis on "Quantum chemical investigations of doubly charged cations". As a postdoc, he went to the IBM Almaden Research Center in San José (California) and to the Institute for Supercomputing and Applied Mathematics at the Scientific Center of IBM Deutschland GmbH in Heidelberg. In 1992 he was appointed professor for theoretical organic chemistry at the TU Berlin, where he was the youngest professor at the age of 32.

At the end of 1998 he moved to the GDCh office in Frankfurt / Main, initially as Head of Science and Research, and then in 2002 - as the successor to Heindirk tom Dieck - Managing Director of the Society of German Chemists. Koch has written around 190 publications in scientific journals and a textbook.

He is married and has two daughters.

Publications (selection)

• Wolfram Koch, Max C. Holthausen: A chemist's guide to density functional theory , 2nd edition, Weinheim; New York ; Chichester; Brisbane; Singapore; Toronto: Wiley-VCH 2001, ISBN 3-527-30422-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfram Koch in the catalog of the German National Library
• GDCh: Management (with curriculum vitae and list of publications)
• analytik-news.de: Wolfram Koch new managing director of GDCh , press release, November 6, 2002 (with curriculum vitae)