Year(s)

Title/Function

Institution

1966-1969

Vordiplom Chemistry

TH Darmstadt, Germany

1969-1970

Chemical Physics as Fellow of DAAD

University of Grenoble, France

1970-1971

Diplom Chemiker

University of Göttingen, Germany

1970-1971

Diploma thesis

Max Planck Institutes of Spectroscopy and of Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany (with Manfred Stockburger and Albert Weller)

1973

Quantum Chemistry

Summer Institute in Quantum Chemistry with Per Olov Loewdin, University of Uppsala, Sweden

1972-1975

Dr es sces tech

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland (with Jürgen Troe)

1976-1977

Max Kade Fellow

University of California Berkeley, USA (with William H. Miller)

1978

Habilitation as Privatdozent

with venia legendi in Physical Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Germany

1978-1982

Privatdozent (later Prof. C2)

University of Göttingen, Germany

1980-1982

Fellow of the Chemical Industry Foundation

University of Göttingen, Germany, Dozentenstipendium und Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein prize

1982-1983

Professor (C4)

University of Bonn, Germany

since 1983

Professor (Ordinarius for Physical Chemistry)

ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland

1984-1987

Co-Editor

Molecular Physics, London, England

1984-1998

Advisory Editor

Chemical Physics Letters, Amsterdam, Holland

1984

Otto Klung Prize

Free University of Berlin, Germany

1987

Bourke Lecturer and medal

Royal Society of Chemistry, Great Britain

1988

Hinshelwood Lecturer and Christensen Fellow

Oxford University and St. Catherine's College, Oxford, England

(Hilary term)

1986-1987

and

1991-1992

and

2006-2007

Head Lab. for Physical Chemistry

ETH Zürich

1991

Otto Bayer Prize

Bayer Leverkusen, Germany

1987

Titular Member, Secretary, etc.

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, commission I.1. (elected as Titular Member in 1987 and again of reestablished project "Physicochemical Quantities, Units, Symbols" until 2005)

1990

Elected Fellow

American Physical Society

1998

Elected member

Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher, Leopoldina

1999

Elected member

Berlin-Brandenburg (Prussian) Academy of Sciences

2002

Elected member

Academic Board of the BBAW

2002

Paracelsus Prize

Swiss Chemical Society

2002-2011

Member of Swiss National Research Council (Nationaler Forschungsrat)

Swiss National Science Foundation, Berne, Switzerland

2004(-2006)

Wilhelm Jost memorial lecturer

Academy of Sciences, Göttingen, and Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry

2005

Visiting Miller Research Professor

University of California, Berkeley

2006

Erwin Schrödinger Gold Medal

SASP and Innsbruck University

2009

Dr. rer. nat. honoris causa

University of Göttingen

2009

Bomem-Michelson Award

Coblentz Society, Pittcon, Chicago

2011-2012

President (1. Vorsitzender) of the Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry

Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie, DBG

2012

QSCP medal

Centre de Mécanique Ondulatoire Appliquée, Paris

2012

August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Denkmünze

German Chemical Society

2014-

Elected corresponding member

Göttingen Academy of Sciences

2014-

Elected member

Presidium of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)

2017-

Elected foreign honorary member

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2020-

Elected corresponding member

Academy of Athens

2020-

Elected member

Academia Europaea