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Prof. Dr. Gernot Frenking

Adresses

office
Prof. Dr. G. Frenking
Fachbereich Chemie
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Hans-Meerweinstr. 4
Room: 02/4440
D-35032 Marburg
Germany
Phone: +49-6421-2825563
Fax: +49-6421-2821833
eMail: frenking@chemie.uni-marburg.de

private
Michelbacherstr. 12
D-35041 Marburg
Germany
Phone: +49-6420-3050297

Professional Offices

• Elected Member of the review panel for Inorganic Molecular Chemistry of the DFG 2004–2008
• Member of the Senate of the Philipps-Universität 1998–2008
• Secretary/Treasurer of WATOC (World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists)
• Member of the Directorate of the AGTC (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Theoretische Chemie)
• Editor of the Journal of Computational Chemistry
• Member of the Editorial Board of:
  Theoretical Chemistry Accounts
  Organometallics (2002–2004)
  Zeitschrift für Allgemeine und Anorganische Chemie
  Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry (1998–2006)
  Heteroatom Chemistry
  International Journal of Quantum Chemistry

Honours and Awards

• 1998: QCPE Lecture, University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
• 2004: 17. Charles A. Coulson Lecture, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
• 2007: Clemens Winkler Lecture, Technical University Freiberg/Sachsen
• 2007: Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry of Spain
• 2008: Appointed to Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FSRC)
• 2009: Schrödinger Medal of the WATOC (World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists)
• 2010: The Hofman Distinguished Lecture, Imperial College, London
• 2011: The Lise-Meitner Lecturer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• 2012: Hans-Hellman Research Professurship Award of the Philipps Universität Marburg
• 2013: Richard W. Bader Memorial Lecture, MIRCE Academy, Exeter
• 2016: Honorary Professorship of Nanjing Tech University
• 2019: International Solvay Chair in Chemistry 2019, International Solvay Institutes, Brussels
• 2020: Erich-Hückel Preis der Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker

Academic Career

• 1969–1973:
  Studying chemistry at the Rhenish-Westphalian Technical University Aachen.
  Diploma at Aachen in 1973.
  
  
• 1974–1976:
  Research student in the group of Prof. Kenichi Fukui in Kyoto (Japan).
  
  
• 1976–1979:
  Doctoral work at the Technical University Berlin.
  Ph.D. thesis: Semiempirical calculations of phosphorous(III)compounds
  
  
• 1979–1984:
  Habilitation at the Technical University Berlin.
  MO-SCF-Studies of the structures and reactivities of molecules in the gas phase, TU Berlin, 1984.
  
  
• 1984–1985:
  Visiting scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, in the group of Prof. H.F. Schaefer III.
  
  
• 1985–1989:
  Staff scientist at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI International) in Menlo Park, California. Research in structure-activity relationship and molecular modeling of nonpeptide opiates.
  
  
• 1990–1998:
  C3-Professor for Computational Chemistry at the Philipps-Universität Marburg.
  
  
• 1998–2014:
  C4-Professor for Theoretical Chemistry at the Philipps-Universität Marburg.
  
  
• 2014–
  Professor emeritus at the Philipps-Universität Marburg.
  
  
• 2015–
  Ikerbasque Visiting Research Professor at the University Donostia (San Sebastian), Spain.