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Prof. Dr. Hans Jakob Wörner is awarded the Carus Medal for his research on time-dependent quantum mechanics using subfemtosecond spectroscopy.
The Leopoldina, external pagethe National Academy of Sciences, awards Prof. Dr. Hans Jakob Wörner the Carus Medal for excellent research in the field of physicochemical research. The medal is awarded at the Annual Assembly of the Leopoldina on Friday, 18. to Saturday, 19. September 2015 in Halle (Saale), Germany.
Prof. Dr. Hans Jakob Wörner (born 1981) is one of the most excellent physicochemical researchers of his age worldwide. Using spectroscopical methods he enabled the observation of chemical reactions at the molecular level. Wörner was one of the first researchers to realize experimental studies observing time-dependent quatum dynamics at the subfemtosecond time scale. One femtosecond is one quadrillionth of a second. Wörner hence contributed to the discovery of new horizons of chemical reaction dynamics. His research could be the basis for many future developments in the field of ultrashort technologies.
Hans Jakob Wörner studied chemisty in Lausanne and Zurich (Switzerland) and received his PhD in 2007. After a short stay at the Laboratoire Aimé-Cotton in Paris (France) he completed a research stay as a postdoc at the Joint Laboratory for Attosecond Science in Ottawa (Canada). In 2010 he received an SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) assistant professorship and since then he is active at the Laborartory of Physical Chemistry of the ETH Zurich. In 2013 Hans Jakob Wörner became Associate Professor at the ETH Zurich. His work was awarded multiple times including the Ružička Prize in 2012, the Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein Prize in 2013 and the Klung Wilhelmy Science Award in 2014. In 2012 he received the ERC starting grant from the European Research Council.
The Carus Medal has been awarded to junior scientists since 1896 in recognition of important scientific discoveries or achievements in a field represented by the Leopoldina. Medal winners have included the biochemist and later Nobel laureate Jacques Monod (1965), the biologist and later Nobel laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1989) and the physicist and later Nobel laureate Stefan W. Hell (2013).