Jochen Küpper

Jochen Küpper FRSC (born 1971) is a German chemist and physicist, group leader at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, and Professor of Physics and Professor by courtesy of Chemistry at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Küpper is best known for his pioneering work on the control of complex neutral molecules, including the spatial separation of structural isomers and their laser-alignment and mixed-field orientation. He develops novel techniques to control the external and internal degrees of freedom of neutral molecules and exploits these well-defined samples in experiments to image their nuclear and electronic structure and dynamics. and an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2013. He was elected as fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2014. He was also awarded the following prizes throughout the years: Kandarpa Narahari Rao Prize (2000) Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2001) Nernst Haber Bodenstein Prize of the German Bunsen-Society for Physical Chemistry (2009)

Works

He has authored more than 120 scientific articles; see also full publication list.