Chemical Space - Molecular Species and Their Interactions

Markus Reiher received his PhD in theoretical chemistry from the University of Bielefeld in 1998, working in the group of Juergen Hinze. After his habilitation in the group of Bernd Artur Hess at the University of Erlangen, he worked as a private docent at the same university in 2003 and at the University of Bonn in 2004. In 2005, he accepted an offer for a professorship in physical chemistry at the University of Jena, where he worked until he moved to ETH Zurich in 2006. His research covers many different areas in theoretical chemistry which range from relativistic quantum chemistry to the development of new electron-correlation theories, quantum computing, and smart algorithms for the efficient exploration of complex chemical reaction networks. He has authored more than 300 scientific papers and published a monograph on relativistic quantum chemistry which has become a standard textbook on the topic.