Gotthard Seifert

Short biography

• Date of birth: april 15, 1953
• Place of birth: Gruenhain (Sachsen)

• 1971-75
  University education, Department of Chemistry, TU Dresden
• 1975
  First degree (Diplom), thesis title:
  "Quantum chemical model calculations and NMR results at some phosphoryl compounds"
• 1975-79
  Research assistent,Department of Chemistry, TU Dresden
• 1979
  Promotion (Dr.rer.nat), thesis title:
  "Quantum mechanical calculations of clusters, using scattering theory and local Xalpha exchange potentials"
  
• 1979-1992
  Research assistent, Department of Physics (Inst. of Theoret. Physics), TU Dresden
• 1985
  Facultas docendi (qualification as university lecturer in Theoretical Physics)
• 1988
  Habilitation (Dr.rer.nat.habil.), thesis title:
  "Calculations of molecules and clusters within the density-functional-theory"
• 1989/1990
  Visiting scientist (International School for Advanced Studies - SISSA, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Triest))
  
• 1990
  Visiting professor (IRRMA EPF Lausanne)
• 1991
  Visiting scientist (Forschungszentrum Juelich)
  
• 1992
  Lecturer (Institut f. Theoretische Physik, TU Dresden)
• 1995
  Professor (Institut f. Theoretische Physik, TU Dresden)
• 1998
  Universitaet Paderborn, Fachbereich Physik, Theoretische Physik
• 2001
  Institut f. Physikalische Chemie, TU Dresden)

Research interests

• Density-Functional-Theory based methods for calculations of geometric structure, electronic structure and dynamics of molecules, clusters and condensed systems.
• Quantum Molecular Dynamics (QMD) for studies of dynamical processes.
• Current Density Functional Theory (CDFT) for calculations of NMR parameters, as chemical shifts.

• New clusters as building blocks of cluster assembled matter.
• Nanostructures materials, as for example nanotubes.
• Biomolecules concerning possibilities of abiological modification of biological materials.
• Searches for new materials with exceptional properties, as for example superhard materials.

Publications