Prof. Harald Oberhofer

Personal Details

• Nationality: Austria
• Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
• Affiliation: Group leader (Habilitand), Chair for Theoretical Chemistry, TU Munich

Education

• Feb. 2008 PhD in Physics, University of Vienna, Austria, with Prof. Christoph Dellago. (graduation with distinction)
• July 2005 Master des Sciences de la Matiére (MSc), Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon, France.
• Oct. 2004 Diploma in Physics (MSc), University of Vienna, Austria. (graduation with distinction)

Work History

• Feb. 2011 – Group leader (Habilitand), with Prof. Karsten Reuter, Chair for Theoretical Chemistry, Technical University Munich.
• Feb. 2012 – Jan. 2014 von Humboldt Foundation post-doctoral research fellow, with Prof. Karsten Reuter, Chair for Theoretical Chemistry, Technical University Munich.
• Feb. 2008 – Jan. 2011 Post-Doctoral research associate, with Dr. Jochen Blumberger, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.
• Dec. 2004 – Jan. 2008 Research assistant, with Prof. Christoph Dellago, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna.

Research Interests

Charge transfer: Theoretical description of charge transfer reactions in energy relevant materials (e.g. solar cells & photocatalysts).

Photocatalysis: Development of computational methods for the study and improvement of photocatalytic materials.

Free energy: Improvement of currently available methods for the calculation of free energy profiles.