ERC Advanced Grant for SIMPLAIX-PI Andreas Dreuw

SIMPLAIX-PI Andreas Dreuw (Heidelberg University) received an ERC Advanced Grant for his project “High-Performance Computational Photochemistry and Spectroscopy” (HIPERCOPS). It deals with calculating electronically excited states of molecular systems in order to be able to simulate photochemical processes on the computer.

Andreas Dreuw and his team are working on highly efficient new computational methods based on the Algebraic Diagrammatic Construction (ADC) family of methods. The scientists want to develop innovative, genuinely parallel approaches and solution strategies for ADC methods that can be used to calculate electronically excited states on modern high-performance computer architectures.

This research, receiving approximately 2.5 million euros in funding, aims to create the foundations for optoelectronic devices, molecular solar thermal energy conversion or solar-driven nanomachines, in order to use solar energy efficiently.

Andreas Dreuw has been Professor of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at Heidelberg University since 2011 and research group leader at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR). Last year he was elected Vice-Rector for Research and Digitalization.

More information at the Heidelberg University website: ERC Advanced Grants for Five Researchers at Universität Heidelberg (uni-heidelberg.de)