Christel Marian

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Christel Marian
Alma materUniversity of Cologne, University of Bonn
AwardsMember of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Bonn, Stockholm University, University of Düsseldorf
Doctoral advisorSigrid D. Peyerimhoff

Christel Maria Marian (4 June 1954) is a German chemist.[1][2] She is a full professor and the director of the institute of theoretical and computational chemistry at the University of Düsseldorf.[3]

Education and professional life[edit]

Marian studied chemistry in Cologne and Bonn.[1] She finished her doctorate in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Bonn under the supervision of Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff in 1980.[1] She did a postdoc in the Theoretical Physics Department of Stockholm University (Sweden) in the group of Per E. M. Siegbahn.[4] She completed her habilitation at the University of Bonn in 1991.[1] In 2001, she joined the University of Düsseldorf as a full professor.[1][5] Between 2011 and 2015, she was Dean of the Mathematical and Natural Science Faculty at the University of Düsseldorf.[4]

Personal life[edit]

She has two daughters.[2]

Research[edit]

Her research focuses on the development and application of theoretical and computational excited-state electronic structure methods – also for biomolecules.[4][6] She also worked on spin-orbit coupling in molecules.[6]

Selected publications[edit]

Some of her most cited publications are:

  • Heß, Bernd A.; Marian, Christel M.; Wahlgren, Ulf; Gropen, Odd (1996-03-29). "A mean-field spin-orbit method applicable to correlated wavefunctions". Chemical Physics Letters. 251 (5): 365–371. Bibcode:1996CPL...251..365H. doi:10.1016/0009-2614(96)00119-4. ISSN 0009-2614.
  • Marian, Christel M. (2012). "Spin–orbit coupling and intersystem crossing in molecules". Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science. 2 (2): 187–203. doi:10.1002/wcms.83. ISSN 1759-0884. S2CID 97659596.
  • Klotz, Rainer; Marian, Christel M.; Peyerimhoff, Sigrid D.; Hess, Bernd A.; Buenker, Robert J. (1984-09-15). "Calculation of spin-forbidden radiative transitions using correlated wavefunctions: Lifetimes of b1Σ+, a1Δ states in O2, S2 and SO". Chemical Physics. 89 (2): 223–236. doi:10.1016/0301-0104(84)85311-2. ISSN 0301-0104.

Awards[edit]

She is a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f "AWK: Marian, Christel". www.awk.nrw.de. Retrieved 2018-12-15.
  2. ^ a b "CV Marian" (PDF). www.theochem.hhu.de. Retrieved 2018-12-15.
  3. ^ Zeitung, Westdeutsche. "Christel Marian im Interview: "Viele Frauen trauen sich eine akademische Karriere nicht zu"". Westdeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  4. ^ a b c "Universität Düsseldorf: Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Christel Marian". www.theochem.hhu.de. Retrieved 2018-12-15.
  5. ^ "Zwei neue Lehrstuhlinhaber ernannt". www.uni-duesseldorf.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-12-15.
  6. ^ a b Jug, Karl (2014). Zweihundert Jahre Entwicklung der Theoretischen Chemie im deutschsprachigen Raum. Berlin [Germany]: Springer-Verlag. p. 166. ISBN 978-3-662-43365-2. OCLC 894508769.