Jürgen Gauss - Biography#

Jürgen Gauss studied chemistry at the Universität zu Köln where he graduated in 1984 and completed his PhD in theoretical chemistry in 1988. After postdoctoral stays at the University of Washington in Seattle, and at the University of Florida in Gainesville, he completed his habilitation in 1993 (with a thesis dealing with the computation of NMR chemical shifts) at the Universität Karlsruhe. In 1995 he became associate professor for theoretical chemistry at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, and promoted to full professor in 2001. Among his honors, the most prestigious are the Leibniz prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 2005, the election as a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and as a foreign member to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Jürgen Gauss research deals with the development and application of high-accuracy quantum-chemical methods for the calculation of energies and properties and has led to more than 350 publications in international refereed journals. His work is highly influential. His h-index is 85 (ISI WebOfScience)/96 (Google Scholar).