CURRICULUM  VITAE

 

MANFRED M. KAPPES

Division of Physical Chemistry of Microscopic Systems
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Kaiserstr. 12
D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany

 

Telephone: (0049)721-608 - 42094
Fax: (0049)721-608 - 47232
Email: manfred.kappes∂kit.edu

 

Date of birth:               23. September 1957
Place of birth:             Bonn, Germany
Nationality:                 German
Marital status:             Married

 

 

University Education/ Academic Degrees:

1977               B.Sc. in chemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

1981               Ph.D. in physical chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
                       Cambridge, USA (Thesis subject: Probing the chemistry of atomic
                       transition metal cations in gas phase using ion cyclotron resonance
                       spectrometry; Advisor: R. Staley)

1987               Habilitation in physical chemistry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
                       (Subject area: Electronic structure of alkali clusters as probed in
                       molecular beams; Mentor: E. Schumacher)

 

Professional Career:

1981-87          Assistent / Oberassistent, Institut für Anorganische, Analytische und
                        Physikalische  Chemie, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland

1987-89          Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University,
                       Evanston, USA

1989-91          Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Chemistry, Northwestern
                       University, Evanston, USA

1991-              Professor (C-4), Institut für Physikalische Chemie (Chair of physical
                       chemistry of microscopic systems), Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe,
                       Germany

1998-              Joint appointment as physical chemistry group leader, Institut für
                       Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

2003-05           Dean, Faculty of Chemistry and Biology, Universität Karlsruhe,
                        Karlsruhe, Germany

2008-22          Joint appointment as codirector (with H. Hahn and M. Wegener), Institut
                       für Nanotechnologie, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany

 

 

Prizes/Lectureships / Honours:

 

1987               Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Award for Newly Appointed
                       Faculty
1991               Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow
2003               John Appleton Lectureship, Brown University, USA
2006               JSPS Fellowship, Japan
2008               Elected to the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2009               Van’t Hoff Prize of the German Bunsen Society
2010               Hector Research Award
2011               Elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2014               XingDa Lecture, Peking University, PRC
2017               Elected to the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Academy of Sciences
2021-26          Distinguished Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras,
                       India

 

Other Professional Activities:

(a) Journals

1993-98          Member of the editorial board, "Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für
                       Physikalische Chemie"

1999-02          Member of the international advisory board, "PCCP, Physical
                       Chemistry- Chemical Physics: A European Journal of Chemical
                       Societies"

1999-04          Member of the editorial advisory board, "The Journal of Physical
                       Chemistry"

2002-04          Member of the editorial board, "The Journal of Chemical Physics"

2001-04          Member of the editorial board, "International Journal of Mass
                       Spectrometry"

2006-11          Member of the editorial advisory board, “Zeitschrift für NaturforschungA”

 

(b) Conferences

1990               Co-Chairman: "Symposium on Metal Clusters", ACS Meeting (Boston,
                       USA)

1991               Vice-Chairman, Gordon Research Conference on Metal and
                       Semiconductor Clusters (Wolfeboro, USA)

1993               Chairman, Gordon Research Conference on Metal and Semiconductor
                       Clusters (Wolfeboro, USA)

2005               Co-organizer: Symposium on Size-Selected Clusters I (Brand, Austria)

2005               Co-organizer: German Cluster Workshop (Bad Herrenalb, Germany)

2007               Co-organizer: Symposium on Size-Selected Clusters II (Brand, Austria)

2007               Scientific co-organization of the main theme „Novel Carbon Structures”,
                       General Meeting of the Bunsengesellschaft (Graz, Austria)

2009               Co-organizer: Symposium on Size-Selected Clusters III (Brand)

2011               Co-organizer: Symposium on Size-Selected Clusters IV (Davos)

2013               Co-organizer: Symposium on Size-Selected Clusters V (Davos)

2013               Scientific preparation and organization (in cooperation with W. Klopper,
                       J. Gauss und W. Domcke) of the main topic “Theory meets Spectros-
                       copy” of the 112th  Bunsentagung (Annual German Conference on
                       Physical Chemistry), Karlsruhe.

2016               Co-organizer: Symposium on Size-Selected Clusters VI (Davos)

 

(c) Reviewing

2000-03          Elected German Science Foundation (DFG) reviewer for the subject
                       area „Physical and Theoretical Chemistry”

2004-07         Elected DFG reviewer for the subject area „Physical Chemistry of
                      Molecules, Liquids and Interfaces; General Theoretical Chemistry“

2008-12          Chairman, PE-4A panel (Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences),
                      European Research Council Reviewer for numerous scientific journals
                      and for various scientific organizations within and outside Germany.

 

(d) Other Committees/Administration

1998-2003      Speaker of the Karlsruhe DFG-funded Special Research Area (SFB
                      195) "Electron Localization in Macroscopic and Microscopic Systems"

2001-2014      Member of the Coordination Committee of the Karlsruhe DFG-funded
                       Center of  Excellence on “Functional Nanostructures” (CFN); deputy
                       speaker since 2004

2002-2004      Member of the Minerva-Weizmann Committee

2003-2006      Deputy speaker of the Karlsruhe DFG-funded Special Research Area
                       (SFB 551): "Deposition of Carbon from Gas Phase"

2006-2022      Member of the Coordination Committee of the DFG-funded graduate
                       school „Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics“

2010-              Member of the research advisory committee of the Foundation of
                       Chemical Industry

2010               Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee Centre International de
                       Recherche aux Frontiers de la Chemic (FRC) – Strasbourg, France

2011-2022      Deputy speaker of Transregio DFG funded Special Research (TRR 88):
                       “Cooperative effects in homo- and heterometallic complexes (3MET)”

2014-2022      Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Fritz-Haber Institute of the
                       Max-Planck Society