Prof. em. Dr. Lutz Zülicke                           

                                                                        

Institute of Chemistry                                        Phone:   +49 (0)331-977-5229

University of Potsdam                                    Fax:       +49 (0)331-977-5058              

Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25                             E-mail:   zuelicke1@uni-potsdam.de

D-14476 Potsdam OT Golm                                         l.zuelicke@t-online.de

Germany                                                                   

 

                             

                                                                                                                                                                               

 

 

 

 

 

Scientific Education and Career. Degrees

 

1954-1960       Studies in physics at the University of Leipzig.

                        Graduation (diploma) 1960

 

1960-1962       Scientific assistant in the Research Group of Theoretical Chemistry

                         of the Academy of Sciences, Leipzig Institutes (with Prof. B. Kockel)

 

1962                 Visiting scientist in the Research Group of Theoretical Physics of the

                         Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (with Prof. P. Gombás)

 

1962 ff.             Research positions in the Institute (later Central Institute) of Physical

                         Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Berlin

 

1965                 Promotion: Dr. rer. nat. at the University of Leipzig

 

1974                 Promotion: Dr. sc. nat. at the Humboldt University, Berlin

 

1976/77            Visiting scientist at the Institute of Chemical Physics of the Academy

                         of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Moscow (with Prof. E.E. Nikitin)

 

 

 

1977                 Facultas docendi in Molecular Physics, University of Leipzig

 

1978                 Appointment as Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

                         at the Academy of Sciences o the GDR

 

1990-1991        Managing Director of the Central Institute of Physical Chemistry, Berlin

 

1992                 Head of the Research Group 'Physico-Chemical Dynamics' in the

                         Scientist Integration Program, Berlin

 

1993 ff.             Full Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Potsdam

 

2001                 Professor emeritus at the University of Potsdam

 

 

Scientific Honours            

 

1975             Award of the Friedrich Wöhler Prize of the Chemical Society of

                     the GDR

 

1980             Award of the Joint Prize (Category I) of the Academy of Sciences

                     of the GDR and the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences

                     (together with four other scientists from both Academies)

 

1987             Bestowal of the Van't Hoff Medal of the Academy of Sciences

                     of the GDR

 

1990             Election as Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences

                     at Berlin

 

1991             Election as Full Member of the European Academy of Sciences,

                     Arts, and Humanities at Paris

 

 

 

 

Membership in International Boards

 

1983 ff.         Editorial Boards of various international scientific journals

 

                     Organizing Committees of several international conferences

 

1999             Board of Directors of the International Society for Theoretical

                     Chemical Physics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research Topics (last active period)

 

     Inhomogeneous cationic van-der-Waals clusters: binding, structure,

        and photo-induced processes

 

     Internal dynamics of molecules and molecular aggregates in ground

        and excited electronic states

 

     Theoretical spectroscopy and photodissociation of small radicals

 

     Elementary processes in chemical reactions

 

 

 

Selected Publications

 

Books:

 

L. Zülicke

Quantenchemie. Ein Lehrgang

Vol. 1: Grundlagen und allgemeine Methoden

VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1973, and

Hüthig-Verlag, Heidelberg 1978.

Russian Translation: Publishing House Mir, Moscow 1976.

 

L. Zülicke

Quantenchemie. Ein Lehrgang

Vol. 2: Atombau, chemische Bindung und molekulare Wechselwirkkungen

VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1985, and

Hüthig-Verlag, Heidelberg 1985.

 

E. E. Nikitin and L. Zülicke

Selected Topics of the Theory of Chemical Elementary Processes

(Lecture Notes in Chemistry, Vol. 8, Eds. G. Berthier et al.)

Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York 1978.

 

E. E. Nikitin and L. Zülicke

Theorie chemischer Elementarprozesse

Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1985, and

Verlag Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig/Wiesbaden 1985.

 

L. Zülicke
Molekulare Theoretische Chemie. Eine Einführung
Springer Spektrum, Wiesbaden 2015.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Original Papers (selected):

 

T. Ritschel, S. Mahapatra, and L. Zülicke

Quasiclassical Dynamics of Proton Scattering by  on an

Improved ab initio Potential Energy Surface

Chem. Phys. 271 (2001) 155.

 

R. Vetter, T. Ritschel, L. Zülicke, and K. A. Peterson

Theoretical Study of the Low-Lying Electronically Excited States

of OBrO

J. Phys. Chem. A 107 (2003) 1405.

 

T. Ritschel, P.J. Kuntz, and L. Zülicke

Structure and dynamics of cationic van-der-Waals clusters.

I. Binding and structure of protonated argon clusters

Eur. Phys. J. D 33 (2005) 421.

 

T. Ritschel, Ch. Zuhrt, L. Zülicke, and P.J. Kuntz

Structure and dynamics of cationic van-der-Waals clusters.

II. Dynamics of protonated argon clusters

Eur. Phys. J. D 41 (2007) 127.

 

T. Ritschel, P.J. Kuntz, and L. Zülicke

 Structure and dynamics of cationic van-der-Waals clusters.

 III. Binding and structure of ArnH+ clusters

  Eur. Phys. J. D 44 (2007) 93.