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Jochen Autschbach
Department of Chemistry
312 Natural Sciences Complex
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA
Tel.: +01-716-645-4122
Fax: +01-716-645-6963
email: jochena (at) buffalo.edu
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We are always interested in recruiting talented graduate students into our computational chemistry research program. If you are considering to apply for the graduate program in our Department and you are interested in computational or theoretical chemistry feel free to contact me or my colleagues Dr. Eva Zurek and Dr. Alexey Akimov for further information.
If you are interested in a postdoc position and your research background matches our portfolio please send me your resume. Open positions become available from time to time.
Visiting graduate students and senior visiting researchers are very welcome. It helps a lot if you have a stipend / scholarship for the visit.
Internships: (i) Availability of funding permitting, we may be able to offer summer research positions to undergraduate students if they are US citizens or permanent residents and have had prior training in computational chemistry, or scientific programming experience. (ii) We are not able to offer internships to foreign nationals unless they are able to support the visit financially and have a completed undergraduate degree in chemistry or a related field.
Best wishes to Dr. Claudiu Sergentu, who is returning to Romania. The
X-ray absorption project will continue (12/21)
Welcome Dr. Alberto Fernández Alarcón, who joined the group in
November 2021
Welcome to Dr. Soumitra Manna, who joined the group in September
2021
Congratulations to Farnoush for receiving her MSc degree, and best wishes
for the future (07/21)
Congratulations to Adam Philips for a successful defense of his PhD thesis
(05/21)
Welcome to Dr. Pierpaolo Morgante, who joined the group in May 2021
Best wishes to Dr. Laura Abella who returned to Universitat Rovira i
Virgili with a prestigious Juan de la Cierva fellowship (05/21)
The Python code for Adam’s calculations of quadrupolar NMR relaxation
rates is now available on GitHub (04/21)
Welcome to Dr. Laura Motta, who joined the group in February 2021
Jochen’s textbook is published! Yay! https://global.oup.com/academic/product/quantum-theory-for-chemical-applications-9780190920807.
(01/21) See the top of our publications web page for further details
Welcome to Viswa Phani Srinivas Marthi, who joined the group as a
graduate student (01/21)
Congratulations to Claudiu, Eva,
Jochen, and Thomas Albrecht-Schönzart and his team at Florida State
University, for our ’Curium compounds under high pressure’ study that was
just published in Nature (07/20). See https://rdcu.be/b5Dq3 and UB’s
press release https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2020/07/011.html
Best wishes to Dr. Gaurab Ganguly, who moved to Prague to continue
his scientific training with Prof. Michl (07/20)
Congratulations to Jochen for receiving the 2019 Schöllkopf Medal from
the Western New York section of the American Chemical Society (09/19).
Thanks to all who attended the award dinner, and thanks to all who wrote
me a letter for the occasion.
Congratulations to Jochen for being named a University at Buffalo (UB)
Distinguished Professor (07/19)
Congratulations to Dr. Tom Duignan for the successful defense of his
PhD thesis (05/19)
Congratulations to Jochen who has been appointed as John D. & Frances
H. Larkin Foundation Chair in Chemistry (02/19)
Welcome to Farnoush Nourigheimasi and Herbert Ludowieg. Both started
in November 2018 as graduate students in our group
Welcome to Dr. Xiaojuan Yu who joined the team in September 2018
Welcome to Drs. Laura Abella and Gaurab Ganguly, who joined the team
in August 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Alex Marchenko for a successful defense of his
PhD thesis (06/18)
Best wishes to Jeremy Marchais, a Master’s student from Bordeaux,
France, who returned home after visiting us for several months (07/18)
Congratulations to Alex Marchenko for receiving the University at Buffalo
Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching Assistants (04/18)
Congratulations to Jochen for receiving the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for
Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities (04/18)
Best wishes to Dr. Arun Pal and Zhubin Hu who returned home after
productive visits to UB (02/18)
Congratulations to Alex Marchenko for receiving the Department’s
Mattern-Tyler graduate student teaching award (08/17) and the
September 2017 Graduate Student Research Highlight
Welcome to graduate student Zhubin Hu who is visiting us from Shanghai
Congratulations to Jochen: His ‘h’ reached 50 before his age did (Web of
Science, 7/17)
Congratulations to Dr. Barry Moore II for receiving the 2016 Best PhD
Dissertation Award from the UB Chemistry Department (4/17)
Wecome to our new group members Dr. Claudiu Sergentu and Dr. Arun
Pal (2/17)
Best wishes to Dr. Lucas Ducati who returned to Brazil after a two-year
visit here (1/17)
Best wishes to Renan Viesser who returned to Brazil to complete his PhD
after a one-year visit here (12/16)
Welcome to our new group member Dr. Yonaton Heit (9/16)
Congratulations to Dr. Barry Moore II for defending his PhD thesis
successfully, and for landing a job at U. of Pittsburgh (5/16)
Best wishes to Bob Martin who finished his MSc degree (5/16)
Welcome to Renan Viesser, a visiting graduate student from Campinas,
Brazil (11/15)
Best wishes to Dr. Kamal Sharkas who is leaving for a postdoc position
at U. Minnessota (10/15)
Welcome to Prof. Yusif Abdullayev who is visiting us from Azerbaijan as
a Fulbright scholar (9/15)
Congratulations to Sutter Kip for successfully defending his thesis (8/15)
Welcome to Prof. Lucas Ducati from Sao Paulo, Brazil, who is visiting
us in 2015/16, following a short visit in the summer of 2014 (2/15)
Welcome to Adam Philips who joined the group as a graduate student
(11/14)
Best wishes to Haitao Sun who returned to Shanghai to complete his PhD
after an 18 month visit here (3/14)
Best wishes to Ben Pritchard who became a postdoc at Virginia
Tech. (02/14)
Welcome to our new group members: Tom Duignan, Alex Marchenko,
and Dr. Kamal Sharkas (01/14)
Congratulations to Ben Pritchard for defending his PhD thesis successfully
(12/13)
Congratulations to Mark Rudolph for defending his PhD thesis successfully
(08/12)
Congratulations to Dr. Shyam Badu for becoming a landed immigrant in
Canada (07/12)
Welcome to our new group members, Dr. Shyam Badu (2012), Bob
Martin (2012), Haitao Sun (2012), Frederic Gendron (2012)
Congratulations to Dr. Monika Srebro for successfully completing her
research project funded by the Polish government (late 2012)
Congratulations to Dr. Prakash Verma for successfully completing his
code in NWChem for EPR calculations with DFT and variational spin-orbit
coupling (02/13)
Congratulations to Dr. Lionel Truflandier for his faculty position at the
University of Bordeaux I (2012)
Best wishes to Lucia Nitsch-Velasquez who finished her MSc degree
(2010)
Congratuations to Jochen for his promotion to Full Professor (08/09)
Congratulations to Shaohui Zheng for defending his PhD successfully
(03/09)
Congratulations to Matt Kundrat for defending his PhD thesis successfully
(08/08)
Jochen received the UB Exceptional Scholar - Young Investigator Award
in 2007 and got tenure
Congratulations to Brendan Mort for defending his PhD thesis successfully
(08/07)
Jochen gave a keynote lecture at the 37th ICCC in Cape Town in 08/2006.
Besides discussing exciting scientific matters there was also a lot of
interesting marine life to watch, and the dreadful prison on Robben island
Older News (2003 – 2006) were deleted when the web site was re-designed
ca. 2012