PERSONAL DATA
Hans Lischka
Place of birth: Vienna, Austria
Nationality: Austrian
Ph.D. at the University of Vienna
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Research Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Texas Tech University, Texas, USA
Nov. 2015-May 2019
Professor at the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin Universtity, P. R. China and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Texas Tech University, Texas, USA
2011-Sept 2015
Research Professor at the Texas Tech University, Texas, USA
2008-2010
Visiting Professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Sept 2008
Retirement from the University of Vienna, Austria
1980
Visiting Professor at the Ohio State University (collaboration with I. Shavitt)
1980-2008
Professor, Institute for Theoretical Chemistry and Radiation Chemistry, University of Vienna
1976-1980
Assistant Professor, Institute for Theoretical Chemistry and Radiation Chemistry, University of Vienna
1972-1973
Postdoc (Humboldt fellowship) with W. Kutzelnigg, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
1969-1976
Assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Chemistry and Radiation Chemistry, University of Vienna
PhD at the University of Vienna with Profs. O. E. Polansky and G. Derflinger
HONORS AND AWARDS
2023
Lifetime Achievement Award of the European Chemical Society
2023
Corresponding member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
2021
Edital CAPES-PrInt, Visiting Researcher to ITA; Graduate Program in ITA: Atomic and Molecular Physics and Materials Chemistry; topic “Multireference characterization of the stability, excited states, and reaction of organic semiconductors carbon-based nanomaterials”
2014-16
Visiting Professor and host in the framework of the Brazilian Scientific Mobility Program at the Military Institute of Engineering (IME), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2008
Special Issue Chemical Physics in honor of 65th birthday of Hans Lischka
2008
International Symposium on “Electron Correlation and Molecular Dynamics for Excited States and Photochemistry”, Internat.Symp. in honor of Hans Lischka’s 65th birthday, July 4, 2008
2008
1st place in the “Competition for a Full Professor position in Theoretical Chemistry”, Federal University of ABC, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2003
International Symposium on “Recent Developments in Computational Chemistry – Can Theory Answer Questions in Applied Natural Sciences?” In honor of 60th birthday of Hans Lischka, Vienna, June 17, 2003
1980
Sandoz Prize for Chemistry
Max Kade fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for Visiting Professor at the Ohio State University
1971
Award Prize from the Theodor-Körner Foundation
ORGANIZATIONAL POSITIONS
2013-present
Advisory Editorial Board of Chemical Physics
2000-2004
2006-2008
Vice-chairman of the Institute for Theoretical Chemistry and Structural Biology of the University of Vienna
2000-2001
Chairman of the Austrian Chemical Physical Society
1992-1996
Chairman of the Institute for Theoretical Chemistry and Radiation Chemistry, University of Vienna
1993-1995
Head of the Vienna section of the Austrian Chemical Society
1999-2008
Member of the Advisory Board of Monatshefte für Chemie/Chemical Monthly
1992-2008
Member of the COST Chemistry Technical Committee of the European Union
1992-2008
Member of the Management Committee of the COST Chemistry Actions D3, D9, D23, D26 and D37
1998-2002
2006-2010
Chairman of the COST Chemistry Working Groups “Electron correlation and size-extensivity” in D9 and “Computational Photochemistry and Photobiology” in D37
Founding member of the managing committee of the Central European Symposium for Theoretical Chemistry
MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS
American Chemical Society
Austrian Chemical Society
Chemical-Physical Society (Austria)
German Chemical Society
Brazilian Academy of Sciences