Autor/-in: Jochen Schirmer

Prof. Dr. Jochen Schirmer studied physics at the universities of Munich and Göttingen (Germany). He obtained his physics diploma from the University of Munich and earned his PhD at Physics Department of the Technical University of Munich in 1977. Subsequently he held research positions as post-doctoral fellow at the University in Freiburg and at the Theoretical Chemistry group of L.S. Cederbaum in Heidelberg. From 1983-87, he worked at the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, but finished his habilitation in Heidelberg in 1985. Prof. Schirmer further visited the University in Kaiserslautern (1987-89) and the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA (1987/88) before finally returning to Heidelberg as professor for Physical Chemistry. He retired from this position in 2009.