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Prof. em. Dr. Lutz Zülicke

General Information

Address:
University of Potsdam
Institute of Chemistry
Theoretical Chemistry
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24 - 25
D-14476 Potsdam
Germany

Tel.:          +49 (0) 331 977 5229
E-Mail:     zuelicke1@uni-potsdam.de
                   l.zuelicke@t-online.de

Porträt Prof. Dr. Lutz Zülicke
Foto: privat
Porträt Prof. Dr. Lutz Zülicke
Foto: privat

Scientific Education and Career. Degrees

1954-1960 Studies in physics at the University of Leipzig. Graduation (diploma) 1960
1960-1962 Scientific assistant in the Research Group of Theoretical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences, Leipzig Institutes (with Prof. B. Kockel)
1962 Visiting scientist in the Research Group of Theoretical Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (with Prof. P. Gombás)
1962 ff. Research positions in the Institute (later Central Institute) of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Berlin
1965 Promotion: Dr. rer. nat. at the University of Leipzig
1974 Promotion: Dr. sc. nat. at the Humboldt University, Berlin
1976/77 Visiting scientist at the Institute of Chemical Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Moscow (with Prof. E. E. Nikitin)
1977 Facultas docendi in Molecular Physics, University of Leipzig
1978 Appointment as Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the Academy of Sciences o the GDR
1990-1991 Managing Director of the Central Institute of Physical Chemistry, Berlin
1992 Head of the Research Group 'Physico-Chemical Dynamics' in the Scientist Integration Program, Berlin
1993 ff. Full Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Potsdam
2001 Professor emeritus at the University of Potsdam

Scientific Honours

1975 Award of the Friedrich Wöhler Prize of the Chemical Society of the GDR
1980 Award of the Joint Prize (Category I) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (together with four other scientists from both Academies)
1987 Bestowal of the Van't Hoff Medal of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR
1990 Election as Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences at Berlin
1991 Election as Full Member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Humanities at Paris

Membership in International Boards

1983 ff. Editorial Boards of various international scientific journals
Organizing Committees of several international conferences
1999 Board of Directors of the International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics

Research Topics (last active period)

  • Inhomogeneous cationic van-der-Waals clusters: binding, structure and photo-induced processes
  •  Internal dynamics of molecules and molecular aggregates in ground and excited electronic states
  •  Theoretical spectroscopy and photodissociation of small radicals
  •  Elementary processes in chemical reactions