Science Career
2018 - 2023	Professor (W3) Theoretical Chemistry, Paderborn University
2014 - 2018	Professor (W2) Theoretical Interface Chemistry, Paderborn University
2010 - 2014	Junior Professor (W1) Theoretical Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
2009	Postdoctoral Fellow Institute of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Harvard University, USA
Training
Since 09.01.2009	Doctorate Physics (Dr. Sc. ETH), ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Supervisor: Prof. Michele Parrinello
2002 - 2005	Degree programme Computational Science and Engineering (Dipl. Rech. Wiss. ETH), ETH Zürich, Switzerland
1999 - 2003	Degree programme Computer Science (B. Sc. ETH), ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Supporting Activities
Since 2014	Supervision of Researchers in Early Career Phases Doctorates Completed doctorates: 14, ongoing doctorates: 7 Selected Examples: Kristof Karhan, 2014 – 2018, now Technology Consultant, TNG technology Consulting GmbH, Germany Patrick Müller, 2015 – 2019, now Product Specialist, PerkinElmer, Germany Hendrik Wiebeler, 2016 – 2020, now Software Developer, Fellowmind, Germany Julian Heske, 2019 – 2022, now Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark Naveen Kumar Kaliannan, 2017 – 2023, now Data Scientist, Bertrandt AG, Germany Postdocs Total: 22 (out of which 5 professorships have been established), currently 2 postdocs. Selected examples: Francesco Calcavecchia, 2017 – 2018 now Research Scientist, DB Schenker, Germany Manjusha Chugh, 2017 – 2020, Senior Scientist, Micron Technologies, USA Andres Henao Aristizabal, 2017 – 2021, now Senior Research Scientist, Nextmol, Spain Sudhir Kumar Sahoo, 2017 – 2021, now Assistant Professor, IIT Dharwad, India Svetlana Pylaeva, 2019 – 2021, now DFG Walter Benjamin Fellow, Utrecht University, Netherlands Mohammad Salem, 2019 – 2021, now Faculty Member, German University in Cairo, Egypt Mohsen Sajadi, 2020 – 2021, now Research Scientist at ASML, Netherlands Ramya Kormath Raghupathy, 2017 – 2022, now Research Scientist, Dyson, UK Sam Azadi, 2017 – 2022, now Postdoctoral Researcher, Oxford University, UK Alireza Ghasemi, 2019 – 2023, now Computational Science Specialist, Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU), Germany
Recognitions
Since 2016	ERC Starting Grant, European Commission
2018	Paderborn University Excellent Research Award, Germany
1997 - 2005	Scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Germany
Scientific Engagement
Board Activities
Since 2022	Chairman of the NHR User Committee
Since 2021	Founding member and chairman of the NHR Center for Computational Physics
Since 2020	Founding member and chairman of the NHR Atomistic Simulation Center
Since 2020	Deputy director of the CECAM Node "Mathematics and Computation in Molecular Simulation"
Since 2019	Founding Director of the Center for Sustainable Systems Design, Paderborn University
Since 2019	Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science, Paderborn University
Since 2016	Deputy Chairman of the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2)
Since 2014	Executive Board Member of the Institute of Lightweight Design with Hybrid Systems (ILH)
2010 - 2014	Principal Investigator of the DFG Graduate School of Excellence MAterials science IN mainZ (MAINZ), Germany
Memberships
Since 2022	Member of the Scientific Committee of the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)
Expert Activities
Since 2021	Member of the Peer Review Board of the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Since 2020	Review board member of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Since 2018	Chairman of the Peer Review Board of the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Kühne

Science Career

Training

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Scientific Engagement

Board Activities

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Expert Activities