Geerd Diercksen information

Geerd HF Diercksen
Geerd HF Diercksen (2013) ©Humboldt-Stiftung/David Ausserhofer
Born	(1936-03-25) 25 March 1936 (age 88) Hannover, Germany
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical Chemistry
Institutions	Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching bei München, Germany
Thesis	Beiträge zur Erweiterung der Hückel’schen Theorie der π-Elektronensysteme  (1963)
Doctoral advisor	Heinz-Werner Preuß
Website	www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/person/44078/136550

Geerd Heinrich Friedrich Diercksen (25 March 1936 in Hannover) is a German theoretical chemist and a pioneer in computational chemistry. In 1963 he was awarded his PhD, supervised by Heinz-Werner Preuß at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main, in 1973 he was awarded his habilitation in Chemistry by the Technische Universität München and in 1983 he was appointed professor (apl. Professor). From 1965 to 2001 he worked as scientific staff at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik and since 2001 he works there as scientist emeritus.