Curriculum Vitae
Current and previous positions
07/2017- present |
Marie Skłodowska Curie International Fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm, Sweden Topic: Theoretical prediction of spectral biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease enabled by highly efficient and adaptable multi-level response methods |
06/2016 – 06/2017 |
Post-doc at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm, Sweden, with Hans Ågren and Zilvinas Rinkevicius Topic: Theoretical nano-particle technology |
01/2014 – 05/2016 |
Post-doc at Aarhus University, Denmark, with Ove Christiansen Topic: Local approaches to vibrational-structure methods |
08/2013 – 12/2013 |
Post-doc at University of Münster, Germany, with Johannes Neugebauer Topic: State-specific wave function in density functional theory embedding methods |
University education
31/07/2013 |
Doctorate (grade: summa cum laude = with distinction) |
02/2010 – 07/2013 |
PhD studies in Theoretical Chemistry with Johannes Neugebauer Thesis title: “Subsystem-Based Quantum Chemistry for Photosynthetic Light Harvesting” Affiliations: University of Münster, Germany (10/2012 - 07/2013) Technical University Braunschweig, Germany (07/2011 - 09/2012) Leiden University, Netherlands (02/2010 - 06/2011) |
01/12/2009 |
Diploma in Chemistry (grade: 1.1 = very good) |
10/2004 – 12/2009 |
Diploma studies in Chemistry at the Heidelberg University Diploma thesis in Inorganic Chemistry with Hans-Jörg Himmel entitled “Co(II)-Komplexe mit 1,2-Bis(tetramethylguanidino)benzol und 1,2,4,5-Tetrakis(tetramethylguanidino)benzol” Elective Subject: Theoretical Chemistry (lectured by Lorenz Cederbaum) |
09/2007 – 02/2008 |
Erasmus exchange studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland Internship in the group of Timo Repo |
Fellowships, stipend, grants and awards
- Marie Skłodowska Curie International Fellowship by the European Comission (07/2017 - 06/2019)
- Scholarship in Biotechnology by the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm (06/2016 - 06/2017)
- Post-doc fellowship by the Carlsberg Foundation (01/2014 –12/2015)
- Feodor-Lynen post-doc fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (01/2014 – 12/2015)
- Summa cum laude (with distinction) for outstanding PhD studies University of Münster, Germany (2013)
- Stipend of the Dr. Sophie Bernthsen-Fond for outstanding Diploma studies by the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University, Germany (12/2009)
- Erasmus Mobility Grant (08/2007 – 02/2008)
Peer reviewing
CK is peer reviewer for among others
- Chemical Science, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (Royal Chemical Society)
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry A (American Chemical Society)
- The Journal of Chemical Physics (American Institute of Physics)
- International Journal of Quantum Chemistry (Wiley)
- Molecular Physics (Taylor & Francis)
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Computational and Theoretical Chemistry (Elsevier)
and external referee for the
Contribution to quantum-chemical software packages
Amsterdam Density Functional (ADF): Among other developments, CK has extended the subsystem time-dependent density functional routines in ADF to use the Tamm-Dancoff-approximation. This was done in the Fortran programming language has been released with the 2013 release of ADF.
MidasCpp: CK has developed routines for automatic determination of the importance of terms in correlated vibrational wave function and written and restructured large parts of the routines that concern generation of vibrational coordinates. CK has, furthermore, authored a pilot implementation for the very efficient double incremental generation of potential energy surfaces in semi-local vibrational coordinates. These developments have been done in C++.