Hans Lischka

Hans Lischka | Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Texas Tech University

PERSONAL DATA

Hans Lischka
Place of birth: Vienna, Austria
Nationality: Austrian
Ph.D. at the University of Vienna

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Since June 2019

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

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