
Prof. Dr. Vera Krewald
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Peter-Grünberg-Str. 4
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Prof. Dr. Vera Krewald | |
Technical University of Darmstadt | |
Department of Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry | Phone: +49(0)6151-16-21650 |
Alarich-Weiss-Str. 4, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany | E-mail: krewald@chemie.tu-darmstadt.de |
Date and place of birth: May 1987 in Aachen, Germany | |
Research profile | |
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Employment and academic vita | |
since 12/2018 |
Professor for Theoretical Chemistry (W2, tenure track) TU Darmstadt, Dept. of Chemistry |
01/2017–11/2018 |
Research Group Leader in the Faculty of Science 50th Anniversary Prize Fellowship, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Bath, UK |
04/2016–12/2016 |
Postdoctoral Researcher (Marie-S.-Curie fellowship) Prof. Dr. L. González, University of Vienna, Faculty of Chemistry, AT |
09/2014–03/2016 |
Postdoctoral Researcher Prof. Dr. F. Neese, Dr. D. A. Pantazis, MPI CEC, Mülheim/Ruhr |
10/2010–08/2014 |
Research Assistant (PhD student) Prof. Dr. F. Neese, Dr. D. A. Pantazis, MPI CEC, Mülheim/Ruhr; IPTC, University of Bonn |
Education and Degrees | |
08/2014 |
Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in Chemistry Prof. Dr. F. Neese, Dr. D. A. Pantazis, MPI CEC, Mülheim/Ruhr and University of Bonn |
09/2010 |
Diploma (Dipl.-Chem.) in Chemistry Prof. Dr. F. Neese, Dr. D. A. Pantazis, University of Bonn |
Prizes and awards | |
2021 | Award of the Dr. Hans Messer Stiftung |
2021 | ADUC Award of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) |
2014 | Otto Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck-Society |
2013 | 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting |
2008–2013 | German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes; ideational scholarship) |
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Funding received (selection) | |
2022–2025 | Vice-speaker of SFB 1487 „Iron, upgraded!”; speaker U. I. Kramm, vice-speaker C. Hess PI of the subprojects „Tailored force fields of iron complexes for the precise prediction of redox potentials” and „Prediction and analysis of magnetic interactions in iron dimers” |
2022–2024 | „Understanding the light-driven generation of metallonitrenes for unsensitized nitrogen atom transfer photocatalysis” in SPP 2102 with co-PIs Sarkar, Schneider, Vöhringer |
2021 | „Understanding and exploiting an iron catalysed route to an interstellar molecule” with Dr. R. Webster (RPG-2020-313), funded as a Leverhulme Trust research project grant |
2020 | DFG project „Photochemical nitrogen fixation“ with co-PIs Artero, Bostedt, Chergui, Schneider (428767511), call by DFG, ANR, SNSF, AF, NCN on Solar-Driven Chemistry |
2016 | Marie-S.-Curie Individual Fellowship „Solar dinitrogen activation” (703860) |
Invited conference and seminar presentations (selection) | |
07/2022 |
12th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC), Canada (originally 08/2020) |
09/2021 | CataLight Young Scientist Symposium (TRR234; keynote speaker) |
12/2019 | Lectures at the 35th Winter School in Theoretical Chemistry, Helsinki, Finland |
09/2019 | 17th Central European Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, Austria |
05/2019 | Georgian Bay International Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry (CanBIC-7), Canada |
04/2019 | GDCh Colloquium at University Greifswald, Germany |
Lecturing and teaching (selection) | |
Since 2019 |
Quantum Chemistry I, Quantum Chemistry II (M.Sc.); winter terms Computational Applications in Chemistry (B.Sc.), 50%; summer terms Lecture series “Sustainability and circularity: current developments and opportunities in chemistry”, co-organiser |
2018 | Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK Professional Standards Framework |
2017–2018 |
Introduction to Computational Chemistry, University of Bath, 2nd Year, 50% Computational Chemistry Laboratories, University of Bath, 2nd/4th Year, 25% |
Academic self-governance | |
Since 2021 | Member of the Unite! Academic Forum |
Since 2021 | Member of the NHR4CES Resource Allocation Board |
Since 2020 | Member of the working group ‚Research Strategy‘ at TU Darmstadt |
2018 | Positive Involvement Committee, Dept. of Chemistry (Bath); Athena Swan Silver Award |
Services to the scientific community | |
2020/21/22 | Co-organiser Lorentz Center workshop „Quantum Bio-Inorganic Chemistry“ |
2019/2020 | Guest editor special issue “Germany’s Future in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry: a Special Issue Celebrating DEAL” of the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry (Wiley) |
Since 2018 |
Co-founder, Secretary General of the Quantum Bio-Inorganic Chemistry Society e.V.; www.qbicsoc.org |
09/2018 | Host of the Quantum Bio-Inorganic Chemistry IV Conference (QBIC-IV) |
Since 2017 | Reviewer for scientific journals and international scientific funders (incl. DFG, US DoE, NCN) |
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