David Luckhaus

Private Lecturer

PD Dr. David Luckhaus
Institut für Physikalische Chemie
Universität Göttingen
Tammannstrasse 6, D-37077 Göttingen
Phone: 551-39 3126
Fax: 551-39 3117
e-mail:dluckha@gwdg.de

 

David Luckhaus, born 1961 in Remscheid (Germany), studied chemistry at the universities of Cologne and Göttingen. He received his diploma in chemistry in 1987 from the University of Göttingen with the thesis " The Optimization of Molecular Geometries in Electronically Excited States within the CNDO-Approximation ". Working on high resolution IR spectroscopy with Prof. Martin Quack at ETH Zürich he received his Dr. sc. nat. in 1991 with a thesis on" Spectroscopic and Theoretical Investigations of the Vibrational Dynamics of Dideuteromethylfluoride ".
David Luckhaus was postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zürich (1991/2) and at the University of Wisconsin (Madison, USA) (1992/3), where he worked with Prof. F. Fleming Crim on IR/UV double resonance spectroscopy, collisional energy transfer, and vibrationally mediated photodissociation of highly excited molecules. In 1994 and 1997 he spent short periods as visiting scientist at the University of Wisconsin. From 1993 to 1998 he was research assistant, senior research assistent (1997) and lecturer (1998) at the Department of Chemistry of ETH Zürich.
In 1999 he was named Privatdozent on the basis of his Habilitationsschrift "Molecular Quantum Dynamics and Spectroscopy". Since June 2001 he is guest professor at the SFB 357 at the Institut für Physikalische Chemie der Universität Göttingen. In 2000 David Luckhaus has been awarded the Latsis Prize of ETH Zürich and the Akademiepreis für Chemie der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen and in 2001 the Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society. Current research interests are centered around the investigation of the microscopic foundations of chemical reactivity combining experimental and theoretical methods of modern molecular spectroscopy.

Revised: February 1, 2005