Head

Prof. González is currently the head of the Institute of Theoretical Chemistry within the Faculty of Chemistry, at the University of Vienna. Her current research focus is put at using highly accurate electronic structure methods, developing molecular reaction dynamical methods and interfacing both fields to achieve basic understanding of chemical processes and structure-function relationships as well as obtain quantitative predictions in molecules, biological systems and materials. Born in 1971 in Madrid, she graduated in Chemistry at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, and obtained her PhD with honors in Chemistry in 1998. In 1999 she moved to the Free University Berlin (Germany) as a postdoctoral research and obtained her Habilitation and venia legendi in 2004. She was appointed Professor at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena (Germany) in 2007 and full Professor at the University of Vienna (Austria) in 2011. Among her recognitions, she was Heisenberg Fellow in 2007, received the Dirac Medal from the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists in 2011, has been awarded the Löwdin lecturer in 2014 and a Honoris Causa doctorate by the University of Lorraine in 2018. She is author of more than 250 publications, she has delivered over 180 invited lectures all over the world and serves as a reviewer for numerous international journals and funding agencies.

Further information:

• Publications