Richard Dronskowski (born 11 November 1961, in Brilon) is a German chemist and physicist. He is a full professor at the RWTH Aachen University.

Life

Dronskowski studied chemistry and physics at the University of Münster from 1981 to 1986.^[1] He completed his chemistry diploma with Bernt Krebs and Arndt Simon in 1987.^[1] He finished his physics diploma with Ole Krogh Andersen and Johannes Pollmann in 1989.^[1] He received his doctorate under supervision of Arndt Simon at the University of Stuttgart.^[1] From 1991 to 1992, he was a visiting scientist in the group of Roald Hoffmann at Cornell University.^[2] In 1995, he finished his habilitation at the University of Dortmund. Since 1997, he is a full professor at the RWTH Aachen University.^[1]

Research

His research focuses on the following topics:^[2]

• solid-state chemistry
• quantum chemistry
• nitrides
• carbodiimides
• guanidinates
• intermetallics
• steel
• phase-change materials
• chemical bonding (e.g., Crystal Orbital Hamilton Populations)
• ab initio thermochemistry
• structural chemistry
• neutron diffraction

Awards

• 1990 Otto Hahn Medal (Max Planck Society)^[2]
• 1996 Prize of Angewandte Chemie^[3]
• 1997 Chemistry Lecturer Prize (Fonds der chemischen Industrie)^[2]
• 2014 Distinguished Professorship (RWTH Aachen University)^[4]
• 2015 Innovation Award (RWTH Aachen University)^[5]
• 2017 Egon Wiberg Lecture (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)^[3]

Selected publications

• Dronskowski, Richard; Bloechl, Peter E. (1993). "Crystal orbital Hamilton populations (COHP): energy-resolved visualization of chemical bonding in solids based on density-functional calculations". The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 97 (33). American Chemical Society (ACS): 8617–8624. doi:10.1021/j100135a014. ISSN 0022-3654.
• Landrum, Gregory A.; Dronskowski, Richard (2 May 2000). "The Orbital Origins of Magnetism: From Atoms to Molecules to Ferromagnetic Alloys". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 39 (9). Wiley: 1560–1585. doi:10.1002/(sici)1521-3773(20000502)39:9<1560::aid-anie1560>3.0.co;2-t. ISSN 1433-7851. PMID 10820443.
• Liu, Xiaohui; Krott, Manuel; Müller, Paul; Hu, Chunhua; Lueken, Heiko; Dronskowski, Richard (5 April 2005). "Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Properties of MnNCN, the First Carbodiimide of a Magnetic Transition Metal". Inorganic Chemistry. 44 (9). American Chemical Society (ACS): 3001–3003. doi:10.1021/ic050050a. ISSN 0020-1669. PMID 15847401.
• Wuttig, Matthias; Lüsebrink, Daniel; Wamwangi, Daniel; Wełnic, Wojciech; Gilleßen, Michael; Dronskowski, Richard (17 December 2006). "The role of vacancies and local distortions in the design of new phase-change materials". Nature Materials. 6 (2). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 122–128. doi:10.1038/nmat1807. ISSN 1476-1122. PMID 17173032.
• Dronskowski, Richard (2005). Computational chemistry of solid state materials : a guide for materials scientists, chemists, physicists and others. Weinheim Germany: Wiley-VCH. ISBN 978-3-527-61227-7. OCLC 184983810.
• Stoffel, Ralf Peter; Wessel, Claudia; Lumey, Marck-Willem; Dronskowski, Richard (22 June 2010). "Ab Initio Thermochemistry of Solid-State Materials". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 49 (31). Wiley: 5242–5266. doi:10.1002/anie.200906780. ISSN 1433-7851. PMID 20572215.
• Deringer, Volker L.; Tchougréeff, Andrei L.; Dronskowski, Richard (6 May 2011). "Crystal Orbital Hamilton Population (COHP) Analysis As Projected from Plane-Wave Basis Sets". The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 115 (21). American Chemical Society (ACS): 5461–5466. Bibcode:2011JPCA..115.5461D. doi:10.1021/jp202489s. ISSN 1089-5639. PMID 21548594.
• Sawinski, Peter Klaus; Meven, Martin; Englert, Ulli; Dronskowski, Richard (1 March 2013). "Single-Crystal Neutron Diffraction Study on Guanidine, CN3H5". Crystal Growth & Design. 13 (4). American Chemical Society (ACS): 1730–1735. doi:10.1021/cg400054k. ISSN 1528-7483.
• Deringer, Volker L.; Stoffel, Ralf P.; Togo, Atsushi; Eck, Bernhard; Meven, Martin; Dronskowski, Richard (21 October 2014). "Ab initio ORTEP drawings: a case study of N-based molecular crystals with different chemical nature". CrystEngComm. 16 (47). Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC): 10907–10915. doi:10.1039/c4ce01637h. ISSN 1466-8033.
• Missong, Ronja; George, Janine; Houben, Andreas; Hoelzel, Markus; Dronskowski, Richard (26 August 2015). "Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of SrC(NH)3, a Nitrogen-Based Carbonate Analogue with the Trinacria Motif". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54 (41). Wiley: 12171–12175. doi:10.1002/anie.201507113. ISSN 1433-7851. PMID 26308739.
• Liu, Xiaohui; George, Janine; Maintz, Stefan; Dronskowski, Richard (17 December 2014). "β-CuN3: The Overlooked Ground-State Polymorph of Copper Azide with Heterographene-Like Layers". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54 (6). Wiley: 1954–1959. doi:10.1002/anie.201410987. ISSN 1433-7851. PMID 25522245. S2CID 37257409.
• Jacobs, Philipp; Houben, Andreas; Schweika, Werner; Tchougréeff, Andrei L.; Dronskowski, Richard (13 October 2015). "A Rietveld refinement method for angular- and wavelength-dispersive neutron time-of-flight powder diffraction data". Journal of Applied Crystallography. 48 (6). International Union of Crystallography (IUCr): 1627–1636. doi:10.1107/s1600576715016520. ISSN 1600-5767. PMC 4665658. PMID 26664340.
• Sougrati, Moulay T.; Darwiche, Ali; Liu, Xiaohiu; Mahmoud, Abdelfattah; Hermann, Raphael P.; Jouen, Samuel; Monconduit, Laure; Dronskowski, Richard; Stievano, Lorenzo (16 March 2016). "Transition‐Metal Carbodiimides as Molecular Negative Electrode Materials for Lithium‐ and Sodium‐Ion Batteries with Excellent Cycling Properties". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55 (16). Wiley: 5090–5095. doi:10.1002/anie.201600098. ISSN 1433-7851. OSTI 1261390. PMID 26989882.
• Maintz, Stefan; Deringer, Volker L.; Tchougréeff, Andrei L.; Dronskowski, Richard (24 February 2016). "LOBSTER: A tool to extract chemical bonding from plane-wave based DFT". Journal of Computational Chemistry. 37 (11). Wiley: 1030–1035. doi:10.1002/jcc.24300. ISSN 0192-8651. PMC 5067632. PMID 26914535.
• Dronskowski, Richard (2017). Handbook of solid state chemistry. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH. ISBN 978-3-527-32587-0. OCLC 988580859.