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Prof. Dr. Stephan Kümmel

Overview
Overview
Prof. Dr. Stephan Kümmel

Chair of Theoretical Physics IV
University of Bayreuth | KeyLab coordinator


Job History

05/2009 – presentFull Professor (Chair of Theoretical Physics IV)
08/2005 – 04/2009

Associate Professor (W2), Theoretical Physics, University of Bayreuth, declined an external offer for a Chair in Theoretical Physics

07/2003 – 07/2005Emmy Noether-Junior Group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute fort he Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden
01/2003 – 06/2003Research Associate, Department of Physics, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA

Education

01/2001 – 12/2002Emmy Noether-Scholarship oft he German Science Foundation, Post-Doctoral Researcher with Prof. J. P. Perdew, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
1997 – 2000PhD in physics with Prof. M. Brack, summa cum laude
11/1999 – 12/1999Research stay at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, with Prof. M. Manninen, supported by the Academy of Finland
1997Diploma in physics, University of Regensburg, with distinction
1991 – 1997Studying physics at the University of Regensburg and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Awards and other responsibilities

since 2019Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Sciences
since 2018Direktor of the Bayreuther Zentrum für High Performance Computing
since 2016Speaker of the Elite Study Program “Biological Physics” in the Elite Network of Bavaria
2015 – 2017Director of the Bayreuth Graduate School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences
2015 – 2017
Vice-Dean of the University of Bayreuth
2013 – 2020Boardmember of the Bavarian Section of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
2009 – 2015Vice director of the Bayreuth Graduate School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences
1991 – 1997Member of the Bayerische Hochbegabtenförderung

Chair of Theoretical Physics IV
University of Bayreuth | KeyLab coordinator


We try to unravel the electronic structure and dynamics of condensed matter systems. Developing and using (time-dependent) density functional theory plays a major role in our group’s research.

We presently work in the following areas:

  • Organic semiconductors:
    Studying charge transfer processes, optical absorption, and low-gap donor-acceptor systems
  • Metal nanoparticles:
    Structure and electronic properties of nanoalloys, especially from noble metals, catalytic properties
  • Photoemission:
    Calculating photoemission intensities from first principles, angle resolved, also non-perturbatively and strong field effects
  • Density functional development:
    Orbitalfunctionals, Self-interaction corrections, „Tuned-range-separated“ hybrids, taking into account the particle number discontinuity

Chair of Theoretical Physics IV
University of Bayreuth | KeyLab coordinator


10 selected publications

A complete list of publications of Prof. Dr. Stephan Kümmel is available here.


Ultranonlocality and accurate band gaps from a Meta-Generalized Gradient Approximation
Aschebrock, T.; Kümmel, S.
Physical Review Research, 2019, 1, 033082

Dielectric Screening Meets Optimally Tuned Density Functionals
Kronik, L.; Kümmel, S.
Advanced Materials, 2018, 30, 1706560

Electron-Vibration Coupling in Molecular Materials: Assignment of Vibronic Modes from Photoelectron Momentum Mapping
Graus M.; Grimm M.; Metzger C.; Dauth M.; Tusche C.; Kirschner J.; Kümmel S.; Schöll A.; Reinert, F.
Physical Review Letters 2016, 116, 147601

Frequency dependence of the exact exchange-correlation kernel of time-dependent density-functional theory
Thiele M.; Kümmel S.
Physical Review Letters 2014, 112, 083001

Orbital Localization, Charge Transfer, and Band Gaps in Semilocal Density-Functional Theory
Armiento A.M; Kümmel S.
Physical Review Letters 2013, 111, 036402

Gold-platinum alloys and Vegard's law on the nanoscale
Leppert L.; Albuquerque R. Q.; Kümmel S.
Physical Review B Rapid Communications 2012, 86, 241403

Kohn-Sham self-interaction correction in real time
Hofmann D.; Körzdörfer T.; Kümmel S.
Physical Review Letters 2012, 108, 146401

Orbital density reconstruction for molecules
Dauth M.; Körzdörfer T.; Kümmel S.; Ziroff J.; Wiessner M.; Schöll A.; Reinert F.; Arita M, Shimada K.
Physical Review Letters 2011, 107, 193002

Communication: Tailoring the optical gap in light-harvesting molecules
Karolewski A.; Stein T.; Baer R.; Kümmel S.
J. Chem. Phys. 2011, 134, 151101

When to trust photoelectron spectra from Kohn-Sham eigenvalues: the case of organic semiconductors
Körzdörfer T.; Kümmel S.; Marom N.; Kronik L.
Physical Review B Rapid Communications 2009, 79, 201205


Chair of Theoretical Physics IV
University of Bayreuth | KeyLab coordinator


Prof. Dr. Stephan Kümmel
University of Bayreuth
KeyLab coordinator

Universitätsstrasse 30
95447 Bayreuth

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-3220
E-mail: stephan.kuemmel@uni-bayreuth.de
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