Stefan Grimme (born 4 September 1963), is a German physical chemist. He completed a Ph.D. thesis on photochemistry at Technical University of Braunschweig in 1991, and has been a professor at the Universität Bonn since 2011. Grimme is active in the field of computational chemistry and was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2018.^[1]

Works

• Grimme, Stefan; Hansen, Andreas; Brandenburg, Jan Gerit; Bannwarth, Christoph (2016). "Dispersion-Corrected Mean-Field Electronic Structure Methods". Chemical Reviews. 116 (9): 5105–5154. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00533. ISSN 0009-2665. PMID 27077966.
• Brandenburg, Jan Gerit; Hochheim, Manuel; Bredow, Thomas; Grimme, Stefan (2014). "Low-Cost Quantum Chemical Methods for Noncovalent Interactions". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 5 (24): 4275–4284. doi:10.1021/jz5021313. ISSN 1948-7185. PMID 26273974.

Literature

• Steven M. Bachrach: Stefan Grimme // Computational Organic Chemistry, 2014.

Awards

• 2015 Karl-Ziegler Lectureship Award from Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim^[2]
• 2015 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft^[3]
• 2014 Thomson Reuters listed Prof. Dr. Stefan Grimme as a "highly cited chemist" for 2002–2012 in a list of only 300 chemists worldwide^[4]
• 2013 Schrödinger Medal of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC)^[5]