Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics

Dominik Marx is Distinguished Professor of Theoretical Chemistry
and Head of the Center for Theoretical Chemistry at the University
of Bochum, Germany, since 1999. He received his diploma and Ph.D.
in chemistry from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz
in 1990 and 1992. Amongst other scientific appointments, he worked
as a postdoctoral fellow at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in
Ruschlikon with Michele Parrinello, and obtained his habilitation
in theoretical physics from Stuttgart University in 1998. He has
authored more than 100 original publications, written a dozen
reviews, and edited books and special issues.



Jurg Hutter is associate professor for physical chemistry at the
University of Zurich. He studied molecular sciences at ETH Zurich
and received his Ph.D. from the University of Zurich in 1988. After
several postdoctoral positions, he became a research staff member
of the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Ruschlikon in 1993, and
joined the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in
Stuttgart in 1995. Subsequently, he became assistant professor at
Zurich University. His research interests are focused on methods
for electronic structure calculations of condensed systems using
density functional theory.