Citizenship German | Nationality German | |
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Institutions Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (2010–)DESY (2010–)University of Hamburg (2010–)Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG (2003–2010)FOM Institute for Plasma Physics "Rijnhuizen" (2002–2003)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2001–2002)Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany (1996–2000) Doctoral advisor Michael Schmitt & Karl Kleinermanns Notable awards Kandarpa Narahari Rao Prize (2000)Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2001)Nernst Haber Bodenstein Prize of the German Bunsen-Society for Physical Chemistry (2009)ERC Consolidator Grant (2013)Invited Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2014) Field Physics (Molecular physics) Alma maters University of Düsseldorf, Free University of Berlin | ||
Jochen Küpper FRSC is a German chemist and physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
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He is best known for his pioneering work on the control of complex neutral molecules, including the spatial separation of structural isomers and their laser-alignment and mixed-field orientation. He develops novel techniques to control the external and internal degrees of freedom of neutral molecules and exploits these well-defined samples in experiments to image their nuclear and electronic structure and dynamics.
Awards
Jochen Küpper received several awards, including the prestigious Nernst Haber Bodenstein Prize of the German Bunsen-Society for Physical Chemistry in 2009 and an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2013. He was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2014.
Life
Jochen Küpper went to Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium in Leverkusen, Germany. From 1991 to 1996 he studied Chemistry at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany and at University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. In 2000 he received his doctorate in Physical Chemistry from Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany. In 2009 he received the Habilitation in Experimental Physics for his work on the control of large, neutral molecules at Free University Berlin.
He was Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Society at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA from 2001 to 2002 and at the FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics "Rijnhuizen" in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. He then became project leader in the Department of Molecular Physics at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin-Dahlem, Germany.
Since 2010 he is a Professor of Physics at University of Hamburg and a research group leader at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science and DESY, Hamburg, Germany.
Works
He has authored more than 80 scientific articles; see also full publication list.