Research Group Buntkowsky

Prof. Dr. Gerd Buntkowsky

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Personal Information
Name Gerd Buntkowsky
Year of birth 1960
Place of birth Neuwied am Rhein
EMail Gerd.Buntkowsky@tu-darmstadt.de
Education
1966 – 1970 Primary Education: Grundschule Urbach/Ww
1970 – 1978 High School: Martin-Butzer-Gymnasium (MBG)in Dierdorf
1978 Abitur
1978 – 1982 Study of Physics at the FU-Berlin
10/1980 Prediploma Examination
12/1982 – 12/1985 Diplomathesis at the Inst. of Experimental Physics at the FU Berlin in the research group Stehlik/Vieth, Supervisor Prof. H.M. Vieth, “Structural and dynamic Studies of Molecular Crystals with Optical Nuclear Polarization”
02/1986 Diploma in Physics
04/1986 – 12/1990 PhD Thesis at the Inst. of Experimental Physics at the FU Berlin in the research group Stehlik/Vieth, Supervisor Prof. H.M. Vieth, “Investigations of organic Solids with Optical Nuclear Polarization and Multiple Quantum-NMR”
02/1991 Oral PhD Examination (Dr. rer. nat.)
12/1999 Habilitation thesis submitted at the department of chemistry FU Berlin “Structural and Dynamical Studies with Dipolar and Quadrupolar Solid State NMR”
07/2000 Habilitation in Physical Chemistry
Professional Career
04/1983 – 03/1986 Teaching Assistant
11/1987 – 03/1991 Position at the Department of Physics FU Berlin (2/3 BAT IIa)
04/1991 – 10/1991 Full Position at the Department of Physics FU Berlin (BAT IIa)
11/1991 – 09/2004 Senior researcher at the department of chemistry (Akademischer Rat) of the FU Berlin in the group of Prof. H. H. Limbach, “Instrumental Analytical Chemistry”, (tenured in 1993)
10/2000 – 09/2004 Privat Dozent (Senior Lecturer) for Physical Chemistry
10/2004 – 12/2004 Provisional Professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung) for Physical Chemistry at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena
12/2004 – 03/2009 Professor (C3) for Physical Chemistry at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena
10/2007 – 12/2008 Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Geoscience
since 04/2009 Professor (W3) for Physical Chemistry at the Technical University Darmstadt
04/2011 – 03/2017 Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry
since 04/2023 Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry
Awards and Offers
07/1986 – 10/1987 PhD Scholarship (NaföG)
09/2004 Ruf (offer) of a position as Professor (C3) for Physical Chemistry at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena
10/2008 Ruf (offer) of a position as Professor (Chair, W3) for Physical Chemistry at the Technical University, Darmstadt
11/2011

Carlo and Karina Giersch Foundation Athene Special Award for the best interdisciplinary course (“Mathematics for Chemists”) together with Dr. Hans-Jürgen Bär and Prof. Dr. Martin Ziegler
2021 Erwin Schrödinger Preis (Stifterverband Science Award)
Research Stays
1994 – 2000 Several short guest stays (1-3 weeks) at the Medical Academy Bydgoscz, Poland, Dept. of Biophysics, Prof. A. Gutsze, Subject: NMR-Studies of Eye Lenses
1997 & 2000 Short guest stays (2 weeks) at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, group of Prof. Shimon Vega, Subject: Studies of Peptides and Proteins with Dipolar NMR Spectroscopy
08/2001 – 01/2002 Visiting guest scientist at the National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, USA Laboratory of Chemical Physics, Dr. Robert Tycko. Subject: Selective Isotope Labeling, Synthesis and Structure Determination of Alzheimer-Peptide
Services to the Community
1. DAAD selection committee for Postdoctoral grants, 2005 – 2011
2. Deutsche Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie, Educational Committee, 2006 – 2012
3. Organizer and Chairman XVth International Workshop on Quantum Atomic and Molecular Tunneling in Solids and other Condensed Phases (QAMTS), Darmstadt 2010
4. Editorial Board “Solid State NMR Spectroscopy”, since 2010
5. Session Chairman SMASH 2011 NMR (Chamomix, 2006 – 2012)
6. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Chemistry Review Board, 2012 – 2020
7. Editorial Board Applied Magnetic Resonance since 2016
8. Editorial Board Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie since 2016
9. Editor in Chief Applied Magnetic Resonance since 2020
Professinal Memberships
1. German Society of Physical Chemistry, Bunsengesllschaft
2. German Chemical Society, GdCh, Section Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy