Prof. Dr. Hans Jakob Wörner
Prof. Dr. Hans Jakob Wörner
Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
Deputy head of Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
ETH Zürich
Additional information
Research area
Hans Jakob Woerner’s main research focus is the ultra-fast spectroscopy of molecules with an attosecond time resolution (1as = 10-18 s) and the development of new experimental methods to characterize the structure and dynamics of the valence shell of molecules.
Hans Jakob Wörner is a Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, where he has been appointed as Assistant Professor in 2010 and as Associate Professor in 2013.
He was born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1981.
Hans Jakob Woerner studied chemistry at ETH Zurich, graduating in 2003 and obtaining a doctorate in physical chemistry in 2007. From 2007, he worked as a postdoc at the Laboratoire Aimé Cotton of the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) in Orsay, France, and the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada.
Honours
| Year | Distinction |
|---|---|
| 2020 | New Horizon Lectureship, International Solvay Institutes |
| 2018 | Coblentz Award, The Coblentz Society |
| 2017 | ERC Consolidator Grant, European Research Council |
| 2015 | Carus Medal, Leopoldina, Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| 2014 | Klung-Wilhelmy Science Prize, Otto-Klung-Stiftung an der Freien Universität Berlin und Dr. Wilhelmy-Stiftung |
| 2013 | Broida Prize, 32nd International Symposium on Free Radicals, Potsdam |
| 2013 | Elected Member of the Young Academy, Die Junge Akademie an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina |
| 2013 | Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein Prize, German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry |
| 2012 | Academy Prize for Chemistry, Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen |
| 2012 | ERC Starting Grant, European Research Council |
| 2012 | Grammaticakis-Neumann International Prize in Photochemistry, Swiss Chemical Society |
| 2010 | Professorship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) |
| 2007 | ETH Zurich medal for best dissertation |
| 2007 | ETH Zurich s Willi-Studer Prize for best degree in chemistry |
| 2007 | SNSF post-doctoral fellowship |
| 1999 | German National Academic Foundation scholarship, Bonn, Germany |
| 1999 | Gold medal at the International Chemistry Olympiad |
Course Catalogue
Spring Semester 2025
| Number | Unit |
|---|---|
| 402-0551-00L | Laser Seminar |
| 529-0434-00L | Physical Chemistry V: Spectroscopy |
| 529-0479-00L | Theoretical Chemistry, Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics |
| 529-0499-00L | Physical Chemistry |