Group Leader
Prof. Dr. Hans Jakob Wörner
Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Applied BiosciencesDeputy head of Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
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Lab. für Physikalische Chemie
Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/10
8093
Zürich
Switzerland
Publications
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Curriculum Vitae
Short CV
Appointments
- 03/2023 - present: Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Full Professor - 10/2013 - 03/2023: Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Associate Professor
- 09/2010 - 09/2013: Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Assistant Professor
- 08/2007 - 07/2010: Joint Laboratory for Attosecond Science, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Research Associate in the group of Prof. P. B. Corkum - 04/2007 - 06/2007: Laboratoire Aimé-Cotton du CNRS, Orsay, France
Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Prof. Ch. Jungen
Education
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- PhD in Physical Chemistry 2007
Dissertation Topic: “High-resolution spectroscopic studies of non-Born-Oppenheimer effects” - Diploma in Chemistry
- Studies of Chemistry (2nd preliminary diploma and diploma)
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Studies of Chemistry (1st preliminary diploma)
Honors and Awards
- New Horizon Lectureship (2020)
International Solvay Institutes, Belgium
- Coblentz Award (2018)
The Coblentz Society, USA
- ERC Consolidator Grant (2017)
European Research Council - Carus Medal (2015)
Leopoldina, German National Academy of Sciences, Halle (Saale), Germany
- Klung Wilhelmy Science Award (2014)
Otto Klung Foundation at the Free University of Berlin and Dr. Wilhelmy Foundation, Germany - Broida Prize (2013)
32nd International Symposium on Free Radicals, Potsdam, Germany - Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein Prize (2013)
German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry, Frankfurt, Germany - Elected Member of the Junge Akademie (2013)
The Junge Akademie at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Berlin, Germany - Ruzicka Prize (2012)
ETH Zürich, Switzerland - Academy Prize for Chemistry (2012)
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany - ERC Starting Grant (2012)
European Research Council - Grammaticakis-Neumann International Prize in Photochemistry (2012)
Swiss Chemical Society, Berne, Switzerland - SNSF Professorship (2010)
Swiss National Science Foundation, Berne, Switzerland - Postdoctoral Fellowship (2007)
Swiss National Science Foundation, Berne Switzerland - Medal for outstanding PhD thesis (2007)
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Academic Activities
Organization of conferences and conference sessions:
- Ultrafast Optical Technologies" Chair of Sub-Committee for the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) / and European Quantum Electronics Conference (EQEC), Munich, Germany, June 23-27, 2019
- Member of the International Steering Committee for the International Conference on Extreme Light (ICEL) 2017, Szeged, Hungary, November 6-9, 2017
- "Ultrafast Optical Technologies" chair of Sub-Committee for the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) / Europe 2017 Munich, Germany, June 25-29, 2017
- Session Chair at Faraday Discussion, "Ultrafast Imaging of Photochemical Dynamics", Edinburgh, UK, August 31 - September 2, 2016
- "Ultrafast Optics and Applications" Sub-Committee for the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) / Europe - the European Quantum Electronics Conference (EQEC) 2015, Munich, Germany, June 21-25, 2015
- "Ultrafast Dynamic Imaging of Matter", Grindelwald, Switzerland, March 8-12, 2015
- "Physical Chemistry" at the Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society, Zurich, Switzerland, September 11, 2014
- ”Chemical Dynamics", 113th Bunsentagung (Annual German Conference on Physical Chemistry), Hamburg, Germany, May 29-31, 2014
- ”Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics” at the Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science Conference of the Optical Society of America, Orlando (Florida), USA, October 6-10, 2013
- ”High-Harmonic Spectroscopy”, Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Seminar, Bad Honnef, Germany, January 28 - February 1, 2013
- ”Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics” at the Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science Conference of the Optical Society of America, Rochester (New York), USA, October 14-18, 2012
- Physical Chemistry at the Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society,
September 13, 2012
Review panel member:
- Swiss Light Source Proposal Review Committee
Reviewer for the following funding agencies:
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- US Department of Energy (DOE)
- Austrian Science Foundation (FWF)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)