Stefan Grimme

Stefan Grimme (born 4 September 1963), is a German physical chemist. He completed a Ph.D. thesis on photochemistry at Technical University of Braunschweig in 1991, and has been a professor at the Universität Bonn since 2011. Grimme is active in the field of computational chemistry and was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2018.

Works

Literature Steven M. Bachrach: Stefan Grimme // Computational Organic Chemistry, 2014.

Awards 2025 Chemistry Europe Award 2024 Van-der-Waals-Prize for Senior Scientists for 2025 awarded by the International Advisory Board of the International Conferences on Noncovalent Interactions 2019 Appointed as Max-Planck-Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim 2015 Karl-Ziegler Lectureship Award from Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim 2015 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 2014 Thomson Reuters listed Prof. Dr. Stefan Grimme as a "highly cited chemist" for 2002–2012 in a list of only 300 chemists worldwide 2013 Schrödinger Medal of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC)