The Journal of Chemical Physics from the American Institute of Physics appreciates the efforts of the peer-review community and identified me as one of the top reviewer 2016. It is important to have scientists, who voluntarily, and without remuneration, provide
The Sanibel Symposium is organized yearly by the University of Florida’s Quantum Theory Project and is well known as the “Theory Meeting for Theoreticians”. I’m very happy that they recognized my contributions to the field and honored me with the
A good reason to celebrate: The university society Bonn awards me the PhD prize 2016. The prize is given once a year for the best PhD thesis over all disciplines. Eligible theses have to be outstanding with scientific relevance far beyond
The stability of so-called two-dimensional (2D) ice is re-evaluated. Recent experiments on ice formed by water under nanoconfinement provide evidence for a two-dimensional (2D) “square ice” phase. However, the interpretation of the experiments has been questioned and the stability of
My work with John Perdew and co-workers from Philadelphia showed how their newest meta-GGA functional SCAN can be combined with an efficient London dispersion correction. The combined SCAN-D3 methodology is shown to outperform all other density functional of the same
I presented my recent work at the 30th meeting of the European Crystallography Meeting in Basel. The successful symposium on “Crystal energy landscapes: computation and uses” brought together the experts from both theoretical crystal structure predictions and realistic applications mostly
A new composite electronic structure method has been proposed in my recent PCCP communication: The HSE-3c density functional based method combines the excellent results of PBEh-3c with the numerical robust screened exchange treatment based on the Henderson-Janesko-Scuseria exchange hole model.
A collaborative study with my colleagues from Turin University just appeared online at the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. In the article “Assessment of Different Quantum Mechanical Methods for the Prediction of Structure and Cohesive Energy of Molecular Crystals”
Our article “Consistent structures and interactions by density functional theory with small atomic orbital basis sets” by Stefan Grimme, Gerit Brandenburg, Christoph Bannwarth, and Andreas Hansen has been identified by Computational Chemistry Highlights as important recent paper in computational and theoretical
The Chemical Review by Stefan Grimme, Andreas Hansen, Gerit Brandenburg, and Christoph Bannwarth on “Dispersion-Corrected Mean-Field Electronic Structure Methods” just appeared online. We describe how effective mean field theories can be combined with corrections for London dispersion interactions. The article
