Hans Jakob Wörner

Prof. Dr. Hans Jakob Wörner

Position

Head of Laboratory of Physical Chemistry

Relation

Full Professor

Contact Data

Tel.: +41 44 633 44 12
Tel. (Sec.): +41 44 633 49 70

http://www.atto.ethz.ch
ORCID: 0000-0002-8877-0872

Address

ETH Zürich
Hans Jakob Wörner
Lab. für Physikalische Chemie
HCI  E 237
Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/10
8093 Zürich
Switzerland

Organisations Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
http://www.chab.ethz.ch/
Research Field

Hans Jakob Woerner’s main research focus is the ultra-fast spectroscopy of molecules with an attosecond time resolution (1as = 10-18 s) and the development of new experimental methods to characterize the structure and dynamics of the valence shell of molecules.

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Hans Jakob Wörner is a Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, where he has been appointed as Assistant Professor in 2010 and as Associate Professor in 2013.

He was born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1981.

Hans Jakob Woerner studied chemistry at ETH Zurich, graduating in 2003 and obtaining a doctorate in physical chemistry in 2007. From 2007, he worked as a postdoc at the Laboratoire Aimé Cotton of the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) in Orsay, France, and the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada.

Honours
2020
New Horizon Lectureship, International Solvay Institutes
2018
Coblentz Award, The Coblentz Society
2017
ERC Consolidator Grant, European Research Council
2015
Carus Medal, Leopoldina, Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften
2014
Klung-Wilhelmy Science Prize, Otto-Klung-Stiftung an der Freien Universität Berlin und Dr. Wilhelmy-Stiftung
2013
Broida Prize, 32nd International Symposium on Free Radicals, Potsdam
2013
Elected Member of the Young Academy, Die Junge Akademie an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina
2013
Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein Prize, German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry
2012
Academy Prize for Chemistry, Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
2012
ERC Starting Grant, European Research Council
2012
Grammaticakis-Neumann International Prize in Photochemistry, Swiss Chemical Society
2010
Professorship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
2007
ETH Zurich medal for best dissertation
2007
ETH Zurich’s Willi-Studer Prize for best degree in chemistry
2007
SNSF post-doctoral fellowship
1999
German National Academic Foundation scholarship, Bonn, Germany
1999
Gold medal at the International Chemistry Olympiad
Course Catalogue
402-0551-00L Laser Seminar
529-0434-00L Physical Chemistry V: Spectroscopy
529-0479-00L Theoretical Chemistry, Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics
529-0499-00L Physical Chemistry
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