Prof. Dr. Sandra Luber

Nominated by

• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
• AcademiaNet member since 27.02.2018
• AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria

Employed by

• University of Zurich

Academic Discipline/Fields

• Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics

Field

Physical sciences

Area of specialisation

Theoretical/computational chemistry and materials science

Research interests

• Method development and applications in the interdisciplinary field of chemistry, biology, physics, and materials science; spectroscopy, catalysis, static and dynamic ab initio methods, solar light-driven processes, chirality, liquids, interfaces, in silico design

Distinctions and Awards

• OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award of the Computer Division of the American Chemical Society, 2019

• Carl Duisberg Gedächtnispreis of the German Chemical Society, 2019

• Jochen Block Prize of the German Catalysis Society

  (first theoretician awarded), 2019

• Werner Prize of the Swiss chemical society, 2018

• Robin Hochstrasser Young Investigator Award for outstanding research in chemical physics (first woman awarded), 2017

• Hans G. A. Hellmann Award of Arbeitsgemeinschaft Theoretische Chemie for outstanding research in theoretical chemistry (established in 1999; first female scientist awarded), 2017

• Clara Immerwahr Award for the development of computational methods for spectroscopy and catalysis (first theoretician awarded), 2017

• Medal of ETH Zurich for outstanding PhD thesis, 2010

• IBM Research Prize for Computer Modelling and Simulations in Chemistry, Biology, and Materials Science for outstanding Master thesis, 2007

Interested in

• Lectures, Membership in scientific bodies, Professorship, Refereeing

Languages

English, German, Latin

Doctorate

• 2009: Methodological advances in theoretical spectroscopy for bio and inorganic molecules

PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation

• 2016: Theoretical approaches for spectroscopy and catalysis in the condensed phase