WARSAW UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Chemistry, 1 Pasteur st., 02-093 Warsaw, Poland




2015 - 9th KOLOS LECTURE AWARD

May 18, 2015

by invitation from the Polish Chemical Society
and the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw

PROFESSOR FRÉDÉRIC MERKT

ETH Zurich
Laboratorium fuer Physikalische Chemie
Switzerland

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Curriculum Vitae

Frédéric Merkt, born 12 July 1966 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, married, four children

1984-1988 Studies of Chemistry at ETH Zurich
1988 Diploma thesis on high-resolution interferometric FTIR spectroscopy of CHClF2 (Freon 22) in a supersonic free jet with Prof. M. Quack , ETH Zurich
1989-1992 Dissertation on the generation and spectroscopic applications of coherent extreme ultraviolet radiation with Dr. T. P. Softley, Cambridge University
1992 Postdoctoral research on molecular photoionization with Dr. P. M. Guyon, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay and CNRS
1992-1995 Junior Research Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford University
1993-1994 Postdoctoral Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Research in reaction dynamics with Prof. R. N. Zare, Stanford University
1995-1999 Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry at ETH Zurich
Since 1999 Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at ETH Zurich
1999 Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society
1999 Swiss National Latsis Prize
Since 2001 Member of the Advisory Board of Molecular Physics (Editor 2003-2007)
2003-2004 Chairman of the Physical Chemistry Laboratory of ETH Zurich
2004-2010 Member of the EGAS (European Group on Atomic Systems) Board of the European Physical Society (Secretary of EGAS: 2006-2010)
2004 Akademiepreis der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Since 2005 Member of the Editorial Board of Chemical Physics
Since 2005 Member of the steering committee of the Division Chemical Research (DCR) of the Swiss Chemical Society (President of the DCR: 2008-2011)
2007-2010 Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy
Since 2008 Member of the Research Commission of ETH Zurich
2008 Awarded ERC Advanced Grant
2009 Elected Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
2010 Carus Medal of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
and Carus Prize of the city of Schweinfurt
2010 William F. Meggers Award of the Optical Society of America
2011 Elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America
2011-2013 Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Chemical Physics
2011-2013 Co-editor of the European Physical Journal D
2012 van’t Hoff Prize of the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie
Since 2012 Member of the Selection Committee of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
2013 Elected Fellow of the European Physical Society
2013 Elected Member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
2014 Otto-Bayer Prize



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