Professor Dr. J. Mathias Weber
Habilitation Universität Karlsruhe
(Germany) 2005
Dr. rer. nat. Universität Kaiserslautern
(Germany) 1998
Dipl. phys. Universität Kaiserslautern
(Germany) 1994
Professional Experience
Since January 2006
Assistant Professor and Associate JILA Fellow, University of Colorado
at Boulder, CO, USA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Colorado at Boulder; Research Topics: Gas phase ion
spectroscopy of clusters, nanoparticles, multiply charged anions, and
biomolecules
March 2002 to December 2005
Independent Junior Research Group Leader, Universität Karlsruhe,
Germany. Principal Investigator of an independent Junior Research Group
at the Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Karlsruhe, in the
Emmy-Noether-Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
Research Topics: Infrared spectroscopy of isolated ion-molecule
complexes, experiments on multiply charged anions in the gas phase.
Habilitation in November 2005, venia legendi in Physical Chemistry.
April 2001 to February 2002
Postdoctoral Associate, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany, Group of Prof.
Dr. Manfred M. Kappes, Institut für Physikalische Chemie. Research
Topics: Electronic spectroscopy of gold cluster cations, photoelectron
spectroscopy of gas phase multiply charged anions.
April 1999 to March 2001
Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, Group of
Prof. Dr. M. A. Johnson, Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Department of
Chemistry, Yale University. Research Topics: Infrared spectroscopy of
solvated atomic and molecular anions, femtosecond photoelectron
spectroscopy of water cluster anions.
January to March 1999
Postdoctoral Associate, Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany, Group of
Prof. Dr. H. Hotop, Fachbereich Physik. Publishing the results of my
doctoral dissertation.
September 1994 to December 1998
Graduate Student, Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany, Group of Prof.
Dr. H. Hotop, Fachbereich Physik. Topic of the Doctoral Dissertation:
"Anlagerung langsamer Elektronen an Moleküle und Cluster" (Attachment
of Slow Electrons to Molecules and Clusters); Grade: summa cum laude.
March 1993 to May 1994
Diplom Student, Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany, Group of Prof. Dr.
H. Hotop, Fachbereich Physik. Topic of the Diploma Thesis:
"Laserspektroskopische Untersuchungen von Ar(ns,nd)-Rydbergzuständen
und Diagnostik kleiner elektrischer Felder" (Laserspectroscopic Studies
of Ar(ns, nd) Rydberg States and Diagnostics of Small Electric Fields).
Awards
1999
Wolfgang-Paul-Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Massenspektrometrie (German Society for Mass Spectrometry DGMS).
1999
Dissertation Award of the Freundeskreis der Universität Kaiserslautern
2002
Emmy-Noether-Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German
Science Foundation, DFG)
2009
CAREER Award of the National Science Foundation
2010
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
Collaborations
- Prof. Dr. John F. Stanton (UT Austin)
- Prof. Dr. Kent M. Ervin (UN Reno)
- Prof. Dr. Rex T. Skodje (CU Boulder)
- Prof. Dr. M. M. Kappes (Karlsruhe)
- Dr. A. D. Boese, Prof. Dr. W. Klopper (Karlsruhe)
- Prof. Dr. M. A. Johnson (Yale)
- Prof. Dr. J. H. Parks (Harvard)
- Dr. I. N. Ioffe, Prof. Dr. O. V. Boltalina (Moscow)
Memberships
- Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Massenspektrometrie (German Society for
Mass Spectrometry)
- Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie (German
Bunsen-Society for Physical Chemistry)
- Deutscher Hochschulverband (German Association of University
Teachers)
- American Chemical Society
- American Physical Society
