Biography:Christel Marian

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Short description: German chemist
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

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

She has two daughters.[2]

Research

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

Some of her most cited publications are:

  • Marian, Christel M. (2012). "Spin–orbit coupling and intersystem crossing in molecules" (in en). Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science 2 (2): 187–203. doi:10.1002/wcms.83. ISSN 1759-0884. 
  • 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

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

References