Official Functions

2015 Managing Director, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
2013 - 2019 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Tarragona, Spain
2012 - 2015 Member of the Board of Governors, German Chemical Society
2012 - 2014 Editorial Advisory Board, Accounts of Chemical Research
2012 - 2013 Editorial Advisory Board, ACS Catalysis
2011 - 2017 President, World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists
2011 - 2014 Member of the International Advisory Board, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Prague, Czech Republic
2010 Chairman, Gordon Conference on Computational Chemistry
since 2009 Member of the International Advisory Board, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry (PCOSS), Xiamen, China
since 2008 Associate Editor, WIRES: Computational Molecular Sciences
2006 - 2013 Member of the Kuratorium, Angewandte Chemie
2006 - 2012 Chairman, BAR Committee of the Max Planck Society
2006 - 2008 Managing Director, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
2004 - 2017 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Lise-Meitner Minerva Center for Quantum Chemistry, Jerusalem/Haifa, Israel
2004 - 2007 Member, Ständiger Ausschuss der Bunsengesellschaft
2002 - 2008 Section Editor, Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry
2001 - 2005 Chairman, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Theoretische Chemie
2000 - 2008 Member of the Review Board, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2000 - 2006 Member of the Steering Committee, Bavarian Supercomputer Center
since 1998 Advisory Editor, Journal of Computational Chemistry
1997 - 2014 Advisory Editor, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts
1990 - 1992 Sprecher, DFG-Forschergruppe: Reaktive Moleküle
1986 - 1992 Member of the Board, Institut für Angewandte Informatik, Wuppertal
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