Curriculum Vitae Manfred Kappes
CURRICULUM VITAE
MANFRED M. KAPPES
Division of Physical Chemistry of Microscopic Systems
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Kaiserstr. 12
D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
Telephone: (0049)721-608 - 42094
Fax: (0049)721-608 - 47232
Email: manfred.kappes∂kit.edu
Date of birth: 23. September 1957
Place of birth: Bonn, Germany
Nationality: German
Marital status: Married
University Education/ Academic Degrees:
1977 B.Sc. in chemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
1981 Ph.D. in physical chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, USA (Thesis subject: Probing the chemistry of atomic
transition metal cations in gas phase using ion cyclotron resonance
spectrometry; Advisor: R. Staley)
1987 Habilitation in physical chemistry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
(Subject area: Electronic structure of alkali clusters as probed in
molecular beams; Mentor: E. Schumacher)
Professional Career:
1981-87 Assistent / Oberassistent, Institut für Anorganische, Analytische und
Physikalische Chemie, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland
1987-89 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University,
Evanston, USA
1989-91 Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Chemistry, Northwestern
University, Evanston, USA
1991- Professor (C-4), Institut für Physikalische Chemie (Chair of physical
chemistry of microscopic systems), Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe,
Germany
1998- Joint appointment as physical chemistry group leader, Institut für
Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
2003-05 Dean, Faculty of Chemistry and Biology, Universität Karlsruhe,
Karlsruhe, Germany
2008-22 Joint appointment as codirector (with H. Hahn and M. Wegener), Institut
für Nanotechnologie, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
Prizes/Lectureships / Honours:
1987 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Award for Newly Appointed
Faculty
1991 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow
2003 John Appleton Lectureship, Brown University, USA
2006 JSPS Fellowship, Japan
2008 Elected to the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2009 Van’t Hoff Prize of the German Bunsen Society
2010 Hector Research Award
2011 Elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2014 XingDa Lecture, Peking University, PRC
2017 Elected to the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Academy of Sciences
2021-26 Distinguished Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras,
India
Other Professional Activities:
(a) Journals
1993-98 Member of the editorial board, "Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für
Physikalische Chemie"
1999-02 Member of the international advisory board, "PCCP, Physical
Chemistry- Chemical Physics: A European Journal of Chemical
Societies"
1999-04 Member of the editorial advisory board, "The Journal of Physical
Chemistry"
2002-04 Member of the editorial board, "The Journal of Chemical Physics"
2001-04 Member of the editorial board, "International Journal of Mass
Spectrometry"
2006-11 Member of the editorial advisory board, “Zeitschrift für NaturforschungA”
(b) Conferences
1990 Co-Chairman: "Symposium on Metal Clusters", ACS Meeting (Boston,
USA)
1991 Vice-Chairman, Gordon Research Conference on Metal and
Semiconductor Clusters (Wolfeboro, USA)
1993 Chairman, Gordon Research Conference on Metal and Semiconductor
Clusters (Wolfeboro, USA)
2005 Co-organizer: Symposium on Size-Selected Clusters I (Brand, Austria)
2005 Co-organizer: German Cluster Workshop (Bad Herrenalb, Germany)
2007 Co-organizer: Symposium on Size-Selected Clusters II (Brand, Austria)
2007 Scientific co-organization of the main theme „Novel Carbon Structures”,
General Meeting of the Bunsengesellschaft (Graz, Austria)
2009 Co-organizer: Symposium on Size-Selected Clusters III (Brand)
2011 Co-organizer: Symposium on Size-Selected Clusters IV (Davos)
2013 Co-organizer: Symposium on Size-Selected Clusters V (Davos)
2013 Scientific preparation and organization (in cooperation with W. Klopper,
J. Gauss und W. Domcke) of the main topic “Theory meets Spectros-
copy” of the 112th Bunsentagung (Annual German Conference on
Physical Chemistry), Karlsruhe.
2016 Co-organizer: Symposium on Size-Selected Clusters VI (Davos)
(c) Reviewing
2000-03 Elected German Science Foundation (DFG) reviewer for the subject
area „Physical and Theoretical Chemistry”
2004-07 Elected DFG reviewer for the subject area „Physical Chemistry of
Molecules, Liquids and Interfaces; General Theoretical Chemistry“
2008-12 Chairman, PE-4A panel (Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences),
European Research Council Reviewer for numerous scientific journals
and for various scientific organizations within and outside Germany.
(d) Other Committees/Administration
1998-2003 Speaker of the Karlsruhe DFG-funded Special Research Area (SFB
195) "Electron Localization in Macroscopic and Microscopic Systems"
2001-2014 Member of the Coordination Committee of the Karlsruhe DFG-funded
Center of Excellence on “Functional Nanostructures” (CFN); deputy
speaker since 2004
2002-2004 Member of the Minerva-Weizmann Committee
2003-2006 Deputy speaker of the Karlsruhe DFG-funded Special Research Area
(SFB 551): "Deposition of Carbon from Gas Phase"
2006-2022 Member of the Coordination Committee of the DFG-funded graduate
school „Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics“
2010- Member of the research advisory committee of the Foundation of
Chemical Industry
2010- Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee Centre International de
Recherche aux Frontiers de la Chemic (FRC) – Strasbourg, France
2011-2022 Deputy speaker of Transregio DFG funded Special Research (TRR 88):
“Cooperative effects in homo- and heterometallic complexes (3MET)”
2014-2022 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Fritz-Haber Institute of the
Max-Planck Society