Dr. rer. nat. Stella Stopkowicz, previously junior research group leader and academic councilor at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, received her appointment certificate as a university professor on September 30, 2022, at the Ministry of Finance and Science.
Stella Stopkowitz studied chemistry at the University of Mainz, where she also completed her PhD in the field of relativistic quantum chemistry. After several research stays at the University of Bologna, where methods in rotational spectroscopic applications were used, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo at the then Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (CTCC). There, she discovered her interest in molecules in strong magnetic fields. Since 2015, she has led a junior research group at the University of Mainz focusing on the description of the chemistry of molecules in strong magnetic fields.
Stella Stopkowitz was a fellow in the excellence project "Molecules in Extreme Environments" at the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo, Norway. Since last year, she has also held a guest professorship at the Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Science at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her work was awarded the PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship Award in 2021.
In the last summer semester, she was a part-time substitute professor for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at Saarland University. There, she will continue her research in the field of high-precision quantum chemistry for molecular properties, spectroscopic predictions, and the development of multiscale approaches to describe larger systems and materials, with and without the influence of electromagnetic fields.
Stella Stopkowicz will begin her service as a professor at Saarland University on October 1, 2022.
