Prof. Dr. Hans Jakob Wörner

Prof. Dr.  Hans Jakob Wörner

Prof. Dr. Hans Jakob Wörner

Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
Head of Laboratory of Physical Chemistry

ETH Zürich

Lab. für Physikalische Chemie

HCI E 237

Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/10

8093 Zürich

Switzerland

Additional information

Research area

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.

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

Year Distinction
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

Spring Semester 2024

Number Unit
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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