Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (2010–) DESY (2010–) University of Hamburg (2010–) Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG (2003–2010) FOM Institute for Plasma Physics "Rijnhuizen" (2002–2003) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2001–2002) Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany (1996–2000)
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.[2]
He was Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Society at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from 2001 to 2002, and at the FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics "Rijnhuizen" in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.[3] He then became project leader in the Department of molecular physics at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin-Dahlem, Germany.[3]
Since 2010, he is a professor of physics at University of Hamburg, and a research group leader at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science and DESY in Hamburg, and since 2015, he is also a professor by courtesy of chemistry at the University of Hamburg.[3]
Honors and awards
Küpper has received several awards, including the prestigious Nernst Haber Bodenstein Prize of the German Bunsen-Society for Physical Chemistry in 2009,[4] and an ERCConsolidator Grant in 2013. He was elected as fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2014.[3] He was also awarded the following prizes throughout the years:
Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2001)[citation needed]
Nernst Haber Bodenstein Prize of the German Bunsen-Society for Physical Chemistry (2009)[citation needed]
Works
Chang, Yuan-Pin; Horke, Daniel A.; Trippel, Sebastian; Küpper, Jochen (2 October 2015). "Spatially-controlled complex molecules and their applications". International Reviews in Physical Chemistry. 34 (4). Informa UK Limited: 557–590. arXiv:1505.05632. doi:10.1080/0144235x.2015.1077838. ISSN0144-235X. S2CID54637532.
Korter, Timothy M.; Pratt, David W.; Küpper, Jochen (25 August 1998). "Indole−H2O in the Gas Phase. Structures, Barriers to Internal Motion, and S1 ← S0 Transition Moment Orientation. Solvent Reorganization in the Electronically Excited State". The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 102 (37). American Chemical Society (ACS): 7211–7216. doi:10.1021/jp982456x. ISSN1089-5639.
He has authored more than 120 scientific articles;[5] see also full publication list.[6]
