Prof. Dr. Jeremy Richardson

Prof. Dr.  Jeremy Richardson

Prof. Dr. Jeremy Richardson

Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences

ETH Zürich

Inst. Mol. Phys. Wiss.

HCI D 267.3

Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/10

8093 Zürich

Switzerland

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Research area

Theoretical quantum molecular dynamics

Ring-polymer molecular dynamics

Semiclassical instanton theory

Quantum-mechanical tunnelling in molecules and clusters

Nonadiabatic quantum dynamics with classical trajectories

Nonadiabatic rate theory

Jeremy Richardson was born in Cardiff and studied at Cambridge University where he also took his PhD under the supervision of Stuart Althorpe.  He was a postdoc and Humboldt Research Fellow in Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in the group of Michael Thoss and a Junior Research Fellow at Durham University.  In September 2016 he moved to ETH Zürich as the Assistant Professor of Theoretical Molecular Quantum Dynamics and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2023.  He is the winner of the 2020 Hellmann Prize for Theoretical Chemistry.

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ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9429-151X

Course Catalogue

Spring Semester 2025

Number Unit
529-0060-00L MPS Colloquium
529-0442-00L Advanced Kinetics
529-0479-00L Theoretical Chemistry, Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics
529-0809-00L Theoretical Chemistry Seminar
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