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Head

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Leticia González
University of Vienna
Institute of Theoretical Chemistry
Währinger Str. 17
1090 Vienna
Austria

leticia.gonzalez@univie.ac.at
+43 1 4277 52750

RID: G-7770-2012
ORCID: 0000-0001-5112-794X
Google Scholar: DT-V7aYAAAAJ
Short Biography

Prof. González is currently the vice 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. She received many honors, among them the Dirac Medal from the WATOC, the Prize for Excellence of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry and an Honoris Causa doctorate by the University of Lorraine, she is full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony and has hold many named Lectures. She is author of more than 300 publications, she has delivered over 200 invited lectures all over the world and serves as a reviewer and advisor for numerous international journals and funding agencies.

Further information:

  • Publications


Awards & Prizes
  • 2024 Visiting Scientist at the Department of Chemistry, Ècole Normale Superieure (ENS) Paris, France
  • 2022 Full Member in the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
  • 2022 Corresponding Member in the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Class of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • 2020 Xingda Lectureship, Peking University of China
  • 2020 Almlöf-Gropen lecture, University of Oslo, Norway
  • 2019 Robert Bunsen-Lecture Prize, DBG (German Bunsen Society)
  • 2019 Corresponding member in the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
  • 2019 Prize for Excellent Research from the Spanish Royal Society in Chemistry (RSEQ) (see news in Angewandte Chemie)
  • 2018 Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences
  • 2018 Doctor Honoris Causa, by the Université de Lorraine, France
  • 2018 Gauß Professorship, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • 2018 ChemPubSoc Europe Fellow (Class 2016/2017)
  • 2018 Elected member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences (IAQMS)
  • 2015 Guest Professor at the Université de Lorraine, France
  • 2014 Löwdin lecturer, Uppsala Universitet
  • 2013 Gesellschaft Österreichischer Chemiker (GÖCH) Lecturer
  • 2011 Dirac medal, "World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists"
  • 2006 Visiting Scientist at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
  • 2006 Heisenberg Stipendium, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
  • 2005 Guest Professorship Award, Berliner Frauenförderung
  • 2005 SIGMA-ALDRICH Award for best Young Researchers, Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry, Spain
  • 2005 Rosalind-Franklin Fellowship, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands (not accepted)
  • 1999 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
  • 1999 Best PhD Thesis year 1998/1999, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • 1995-1998 PhD Fellowship, Spanish Ministry of Sciences
  • 1994-1995 PhD Fellowship, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • 1994-1995 Erasmus Scholarship
Functions
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the The Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM), 2025-2029
  • Member of the Scientific Panel of the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, Technical University of Ostrava, Czechia, since 2024
  • Member of the award committee of the Karl Schlögl Award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2023-2027
  • Chairwoman of the Selection Committee for the Erich-Hückel-Prize of the GDCh, 2023
  • Member of the Kuratorium Jubiläumsfonds of the ÖAW of the City of Vienna, since 2022
  • Panel member of the ERC Advanced Grant 2022, Panel PE4, since 2022
  • Head of the scientific working group Computational Chemistry (GÖCH), 2021-2023
  • Member of the award committee of the Ignaz L. Lieben Award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2020-2022, 2023-2027
  • Member of the International Advisory Board (IAB) of the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, since 2020
  • Member of the selection committee for the Erich-Hückel-Prize of the GDCh, 2020
  • Member of the External Scientific Advisory Committee (ESAC) at the Institute for Advance Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
  • Member of the selection and award committee for the Österreichische Studienstiftung (Austrian Academic Scholarship Foundation) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), since 2020
  • Selection and Award committee for the Österreichische Studienstiftung (Austrian Academic Scholarship Foundation) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), 2019
  • Vicepresident of ISTCP, since 2019
  • Member of the scientific advisory council of the Fundación GADEA por la Ciencia, Spain, 2019
  • Corresponding member in Austria of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) 2019
  • Member of the scientific advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, 2018-2023, 2024-2026
  • Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (IAQMS), since 2018
  • Board member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Theoretische Chemie, spokeswoman, 2017-2019
  • National representative of the IUPAC, Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division, 2016-2017
  • Board member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Theoretische Chemie, vice spokeswoman, 2015-2017
  • Board member of the Chemisch-Physikalische Gesellschaft, 2015-2016
  • Member of the board of directors of the „International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics“ since 2012
  • Evaluation of scientific projects for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education (MEC), and the Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs und Technologiefonds (WWTF)
Additional Functions at the University
  • Member of the Environment and Climate Research Hub (ECH) at the University of Vienna, since 2022
  • Member of the C-AG „Bachelor Chemie“ at the University of Vienna
  • Member of the advisory board of the Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), 2021-2023
  • Member of the C-AG „Computational Science“ at the University of Vienna
  • Committee member to appoint new professors in chemistry, physics and informatics (Mitglied von Berufungskomissionen in Chemie, Physik und Informatik) at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2007-2011, and University of Vienna, 2014
  • Evaluation panel member at the University of Vienna (uni:doc program), 2015-2018
  • Member of the Fakultätskonferenz (Advisory body of the Faculty of Chemistry) at the University of Vienna, since 2012
  • Committee member in charge of admission students for the MSc Computational Science (Mitglied der Zulassungs- und Beratungskommission M.Sc. Computational Science) at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2008-2011
  • Committee member in charge of students evaluation (Mitglied des Prüfungsausschusses für Chemie-Diplom) at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2007-2011
Functions in COST Actions
  • Austrian delegate in the management committee of the COST Action CA21101 “Confined Molecular Systems: From a new generation of Materials to the Stars (COSY)”, 2022-2026
  • Austrian delegate in the management committee of the COST Action CA18222 "Attosecond Chemistry", 2019-2023
  • Austrian delegate in the management committee of the COST Action CM1305 "Explicit Control Over Spin-states in Technology and Biochemistry (ECOSTBio)", 2014-2018
  • Austrian delegate in the management committee of the COST Action CM1405 "Molecules in Motion (MOLIM)", 2014-2019
  • Co-organization of COST Workshops for CM1201 (Vienna 2013, Jena 2014, Lund 2014)
  • Austrian delegate in the management committee of the COST Action CM1204 "XUV/X-ray light and fast ions for ultrafast chemistry (XLIC)", 2012-2016
  • Austrian delegate in the management committee of the COST Action CM1202 "Supramolecular photocatalytic water splitting (PERSPECT-H2O)" Leader of Workgroup 4 (2012-2016)
  • German delegate in the management committee of the COST Action CM702 "Chemistry with ultrashort pulses and free-electron lasers (CUSPFEL)". Leader of Workgroup 3, 2008-2012
  • Co-organization of COST Workshops for CM702 (Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Dresden 2009, Creta 2010, Debrecen 2011, Cluj 2012)
Functions in International Conferences
  • Member of International Advisory Committee of the 11th Congress of International Association of Theoretical Chemical Physisc (ISTCP), Qingdao, China, 2024
  • Member of the advisory committee of the International Congress of Quantum Chemistry (ICQC) 2021
  • Member of the international advisory committee of WATOC 2020 and WATOC 2025
  • Member of the international advisory committee of ESPA 2020
  • Member of the scientific committee at the Modelling Photoinduced Processes in Molecular Systems (MPPM) workshop, London, UK, 2020
  • Member of the scientific committee of Quantum International Frontiers (QIF) 2019
  • Member of the advisory board of IMAMPC 2019
  • Member of the international advisory committee of the ISTCP 2019
  • Member of the program committee of Bunsentagung of the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft
  • Member of the international advisory committee of ESPA 2018
  • Member of the advisory board of ESPA Conferences, 2016-2019
  • Organization of the 50. Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry 2014
  • Member of the advisory board of the Femtochemistry conference, since 2016
Functions in Scientific Journals
  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Accounts of Chemical Research, since 2024
  • Senior Editor of ACS Central Science, since 2023
  • Member of the International Advisory Board of the journal Angewandte Chemie, 2023-2026
  • Member of the editorial advisory board of The Journal of Physical Chemistry (JPC) A/B/C, 2023-2025
  • Member of the editorial advisory board of the journal Angewandte Chemie, 2021-2023
  • Outstanding reviewer for the journal Chemical Science in 2020
  • Member of the editorial advisory board for the journal JACS Au, since 2020
  • Member of the editorial advisory board for the journal Chemical Physics Reviews (AIP), 2021-2023
  • Member of the editorial advisory board of Physical Chemistry Letters (ACS), 2020-2022
  • Member of the editorial advisory board for the journal Chemical Science (RSC), since 2019
  • Guest editor for the 2019 Bunsentagung themed issue of the Bunsen-Magazin (PCCP)
  • Editor Monatshefte, 2012-2023
  • Member of the Chemical Science advisory board (RSC), 2019-2022
  • Member of the editorial advisory board of ChemPhotoChem (Wiley), 2015-2022
  • Member of the editorial advisory board of Chem. Phys. Lett. (Elsevier) since 2012, Chemical Monthly (Springer) since 2012, Theoretical Chemical Accounts (Springer) since 2013 and ChemPhysChem (Wiley) from 2015
  • Referee in international scientific journals (Angewandte, PNAS, JACS, JPC, JCP, PCCP, CPL, CPC, CP, TCA, JCC, JCTC, etc)
Memberships
  • ÖAW, Ordentliches Mitglied im Inland der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
  • IUPAC, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
  • ADW GOE, Corresponding Member in the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Class
  • GDCh, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
  • GÖCh, Gesellschaft Österreichischer Chemiker
  • RSEQ, Real Sociedad Española de Química (Spanish Royal Chemical Society)
  • DHV, Deutscher Hochschulverband
  • UPV, Österreichischer Universitätsprofessor/innenverband
  • DPG, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
  • AGTC, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Theoretische Chemie
  • CPG, Chemisch-Physikalische Gesellschaft
News
  • 24.10.2024 Leticia González: Chemical principles govern nearly every aspect of our daily lives
  • 14.08.2024 Ungleiche Zwillinge – Chemische Bindungsspaltung in zwei Akten
  • 16.07.2024 Bessere Speicher für Energiewende
  • 11.04.2024 Neue Moleküle fluoreszieren in allen Regenbogenfarben (Analytik News)
  • 08.04.2024 Neue Moleküle fluoreszieren in allen Regenbogenfarben (Innovations Report)
  • 05.04.2024 Neue Moleküle fluoreszieren in allen Regenbogenfarben (Universität Wien)
  • 05.04.2024 Neue Moleküle fluoreszieren in allen Regenbogenfarben (Science APA)
  • 05.04.2024 Neue Klasse fluoreszierender Moleküle wurde vorgestellt (Salzburger Nachrichten)
  • 05.04.2024 Neue Moleküle leuchten in allen Farben (Die Presse)
  • 05.04.2024 Neue Moleküle fluoreszieren in allen Regenbogenfarben (Science-Online)
  • 05.04.2024 Maßgeschneiderte Fluoreszenzfarben: Ein Regenbogen für die biomedizinische Forschung (LABORPRAXIS)
  • 05.04.2024 Neue Moleküle fluoreszieren in allen Regenbogenfarben (myScience)
  • 05.04.2024 Neue Moleküle fluoreszieren in allen Regenbogenfarben (Informationsdienst Wissenschaft)
  • 14.03.2024 Können Quantencomputer bei der Entwicklung neuer Medikamente helfen? (Bionity)
  • 11.03.2024 Uni Wien: Können Quantencomputer bei der Entwicklung neuer Medikamente helfen? (LISAvienna)
  • 11.03.2024 Können Quantencomputer bei der Entwicklung neuer Medikamente helfen? (Life Science Austria)
  • 11.03.2024 Können Quantencomputer bei der Entwicklung neuer Medikamente helfen? (Universität Wien)
  • 11.03.2024 Können Quantencomputer bei der Entwicklung neuer Medikamente helfen? (Science APA)
  • 11.03.2024 Können Quantencomputer bei der Entwicklung neuer Medikamente helfen? (Science-Online)
  • 11.03.2024 Können Quantencomputer bei der Entwicklung neuer Medikamente helfen? (Uni.at)
  • 06.01.2024 Supercomputer soll Natur bei Photosynthese übertrumpfen
  • 03.01.2024 Mit dem Supercomputer auf Photonenjagd
  • 13.12.2023 Wenn Forscher*innen Licht ernten
  • 13.12.2023 Excited by light
  • 11.12.2023 Aus welchem Stoff wird unsere Zukunft sein?
  • 11.12.2023 What is our future made of?
  • 09.10.2023 Exzellenzcluster startet: Forschen für die Energiespeicher von morgen
  • 13.03.2023 Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health" geht an die Universität Wien
  • 13.03.2023 Neue Dimension der Forschungsförderung: Österreichs erste Exzellenzcluster stehen fest (bmbwf)
  • 13.03.2023 Neue Dimension der Forschungsförderung: Österreichs erste Exzellenzcluster stehen fest (OTS)
  • 13.03.2023 Startschuss für größte Wissenschaftsförderung in Österreich
  • 13.03.2023 Fünf Cluster of Excellence
  • 13.03.2023 Österreichs erste Exzellenzcluster im Überblick
  • 13.03.2023 Three Clus­ters of Excel­lence in Inns­bruck
  • 22.09.2022 European Researchers' Night: Leuchtende Lebensmittel & Moleküle zum Angreifen
  • 24.05.2022 Molekulare Lichtschalter erlauben Einblicke in das zentrale Nervensystem
  • 24.05.2022 Leuchtfarbe zeigt Wirkung von Medikamenten
  • 03.05.2022 Zehn Forscher*innen der Universität Wien sind neue Mitglieder der ÖAW
  • 26.04.2022 Leticia González wird wirkliches Mitglied der ÖAW, Ivo L. Hofacker korrespondierendes ÖAW-Mitglied
  • 11.02.2022 Tag der Frauen in der Wissenschaft 2022 @ Fakultät für Chemie
  • 31.01.2022 Leticia González ist Mitglied der Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
  • 23.06.2021 Leticia González ins Advisory Board von "Angewandte Chemie" gewählt
  • 31.05.2021 Leticia González mit "XingDa Lectureship" geehrt
  • 27.05.2020 Wohin Elektronen gehen
  • 04.05.2020 New doc.funds project on the design of hybrid materials
  • 22.04.2020 Metall und Licht im Wechselspiel
  • 02.04.2020 Leticia González ist Preisträgerin der Robert Bunsen-Vorlesung
  • 31.03.2020 Preise und Auszeichnungen im März 2020: Leticia González ist Preisträgerin der Robert Bunsen-Vorlesung
  • 17.02.2020 Mehr Licht in die Chemie bringen
  • 13.02.2020 Method combination allows deep insights into ultrafast light-induced processes
  • 13.02.2020 Neue Simulation-Experiment-Kombination erlaubt tiefere Einblicke in ultraschnelle lichtinduzierte Prozesse
  • 30.01.2020 Zwei neue Forschungsplattformen
  • 04.10.2019 The fast dance of electron spins
  • 04.10.2019 Wie schnell Elektronenspins tanzen
  • 04.10.2019 The fast dance of electron spins
  • 11.09.2019 From years to days: Artificial Intelligence speeds up photodynamics simulations
  • 02.09.2019 Supercomputer ermöglichen neue Chemie
  • 29.05.2019 ÖAW wählte acht WissenschafterInnen der Universität Wien zu neuen Mitgliedern
  • 28.05.2019 Wiener Forscher entwickeln neue Methode zu Herstellung von Ketonen
  • 09.05.2019 Leticia González new member of ÖAW
  • 23.04.2019 Leticia González neues Mitglied der ÖAW
  • 28.03.2019 "Prize for Research Excellence" für Leticia González
  • 28.02.2019 Leticia González zum Mitglied der European Academy of Sciences gewählt
  • 20.12.2018 Künstliche Photosynthese: "Der Heilige Gral"
  • 14.11.2018 Ehrendoktorat für Leticia González
  • 13.11.2018 Leticia González, première femme Docteur Honoris Causa de l'Université de Lorraine
  • 17.10.2018 Gender sollte keine Rolle spielen
  • 25.09.2018 AcademiaNet-Club an der Fakultät mit Gastvortrag von Pauline Gagnon
  • 04.09.2018 Leticia González is ChemPubSoc Europe Fellow 2016/17
  • 06.07.2018 Photoaktive Metallkomplexe für innovative Anwendungen
  • 02.07.2018 Leticia González ist neues Mitglied der IAQMS
  • 22.03.2017 How do metals interact with DNA?
  • 21.03.2017 Wie Metalle mit dem Erbgut wechselwirken
  • 22.11.2016 Wenn weniger Parameter besser sind
  • 28.10.2016 Falsche Partnerwahl der Moleküle durch Sonnenlicht
  • 10.11.2015 Leticia González: Die Macht des Lichts

Contact:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Leticia González

Universität Wien
Institut für Theoretische Chemie
Währinger Str. 17 A-1090 Wien

phone:
+43-1-4277-52751 (secretary)
+43-1-4277-52750 (Prof. González)

email: office.theochem@univie.ac.at

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