Abel, Bernd, Prof. Dr.

Professor – Chair for Physical Chemistry and Reaction Dynamics, Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Leipzig

1990 PhD Thesis (University Göttingen, with Prof. J. Troe)

1990-1992 Post-doctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (G. Harrison Spectroscopy Lab) with Prof. J. I. Steinfeld

1990-1993 Associated research fellow in the George-Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory at MIT, Fellow of the German Science Foundation (DFG)

1994- Permanent research staff member at the Institute for Physical Chemistry of the University Göttingen

1994- Leader of a research group in the department "Spectroscopy and Photochemical Kinetics" of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen

1999 Habilitation in Physical Chemistry at the Georg August University Göttingen, Venia legendi in Physical Chemistry

2002-2008 Associate Professor (apl) in the Physical Chemistry Department of the Faculty of Chemistry at the Georg August University Göttingen

2003 Founder of Microliquids GmbH

since 2008 Full Professor at the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy of the University of Leipzig

since 2010 Director of the Ostwald Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University Leipzig

since 2010 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy of the University of Leipzig

Major Research Interests

Dynamics of biomolecules and nano-assemblies (amyloid systems), molecules at interfaces, molecular dynamics and elementary chemical reactions ("Femtochemistry"), cold molecules, electron dynamics in condensed matter, analytics (time-resolved) of complex systems, nanoscale imaging.


Homepage Department/Research Group

http://www.pc-uni-leipzig.de/



Selected Recent Publications

Vöhringer-Martinez, B. Hansmann, H. Hernandez, J. S. Francisco, J. Troe, B. Abel,* Water Catalysis of a Radical-Molecule Gas-Phase Reaction, Science, 2007, 315, 497-501

Charvat, and B. Abel,* How to make big molecules fly out of liquid water: Applications, Features, and Physics of laser assisted liquid phase dispersion mass spectrometry (Feature Article), PhysChemChemPhys 2007 (DOI: 10.1039/b615114k)

Hansmann and B. Abel,* Kinetics in Cold Laval Nozzle Expansions: From Atmospheric Chemistry to Oxidation of Biomolecules in the Gas Phase (MiniReview), Chem. Phys. Chem., 2007, 8, 343-356

J. Aßmann, M. Kling and B. Abel,* Watching photo induced chemistry and molecular energy flow in solution in real-time (Review), Angew. Chem. 2003, 115, 2326. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 2226

B. Abel,* J. Aßmann, M. Buback, M. Kling, S. Schmatz, J. Schroeder, Ultrafast decarboxylation of organic peroxides in solution: Interplay of spectroscopic techniques, quantum chemistry and theoretical modeling, Angew. Chem. 2003, 115, 311, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 299