Kurt Kremer - Curriculum Vitae#
- 2008 – 2010 Managing Director, MPI for Polymer Research
- 2012 Coordinator KITP-UCSB program "Physical Principles of Multiscale Modeling for Soft Matter"
- 2010 Head Competence Center "Simulation" at the "Forum Organic Electronic", University of Heidelberg
- Since 1995 Director and scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz
- 1995 Bayer AG, Leverkusen
- 1988 – 1995 Senior Scientific Staff, Forschungszentrum KFA Jülich
- 1988 Habilitation in Theoretical Physics, University of Mainz
- 1984 – 1988 Assistant Prof., University of Mainz
- 1984 – 1985 Exxon Research and Engineering Co., Annandale NJ, USA
- 1983 PhD, University of Cologne, Supervisor Prof. K. Binder
- 1982 – 1984 Scientific Staff, KFA Jülich
- 1974 – 1980 Physics student, University of Cologne, Germany (Diploma 1980)
Theoretical Physics and Physical Chemistry of especially biological and synthetic macromolecular materials. Development and application of (multiscale) computer simulation methods. Process structure property relations, morphology and dynamics of polymers, polyelectrolytes, gels, membranes, liquid crystals and peptides in bulk and under geometrical constraints, polymers for electronic applications.
Services/Memberships (excerpt)
- German Physical Society (DPG), European Physical Society (EPS), American Physical Society (APS)
- EAB Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics Journals, Advanced - Theory and Simulations, Wiley-VCH
- Coeditor Computer Physics Communications, Computational and Theoretical Polymer Science; Soft Matter (-2010)
- DAE Physical Review Letters (1998 – 2000)
- EAB Macromolecules, ACS Macro Letters (2018)
- Peer Review Board of NIC (Neumann Institute for Computing, Jülich)
- Advisory Board Rechenzentrum Garching (RZG), Max Planck Society (MPG)
- Elected board member German Research Council (DFG) for Polymer Physics (2008 - 2016)
- Chair (since 2012) MPG Advisory Committee for IT equipment (BAR)
- CECAM Council as representative of the Max Planck Society
- Chair Chemical and Polymer Physics (CPP) section of the German Physical Society, DPG (2013 – 2015)
