Weber

Curriculum Vitae 

• Professor, Department of Chemistry
• JILA Fellow, University of Colorado at Boulder

Habilitation:    Universität Karlsruhe (Germany) 2005

Dr. rer. nat.:   Universität Kaiserslautern (Germany) 1998

Dipl. phys.:     Universität Kaiserslautern (Germany) 1994

Professional Experience

Since July 2019

Professor, Department of Chemistry, and Fellow of JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA; Research Topics: Spectroscopy of ions in vacuo; supramolecular assemblies and materials under high pressure

August 2012 - June 2019

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (now Department of Chemistry), and Fellow of JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA; Research Topics: Spectroscopy of ions in vacuo; supramolecular assemblies and materials under high pressure

January 2006 to August 2012

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Associate Fellow of JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA; Research Topics: Spectroscopy of ions in vacuo; supramolecular assemblies and materials under high pressure

March 2002 to December 2005

Independent Junior Research Group Leader, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany. Fellow of 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).
 

Honors and Awards

2012

Kavli Fellow

2012

Guest Professorship in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark

2010

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

2009

CAREER Award of the National Science Foundation

2002

Emmy-Noether-Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Science Foundation, DFG)

1999

Dissertation Award of the Freundeskreis der Universität Kaiserslautern

1999

Wolfgang-Paul-Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Massenspektrometrie (German Society for Mass Spectrometry DGMS).

Collaborations

• Dr. Matt Beard (NREL)
• Prof. Steen Brøndsted Nielsen (Aarhus University)
• Prof. Kent M. Ervin (UN Reno)
• Prof. Ralph Jimenez (CU Boulder)
• Prof. Mark A. Johnson (Yale)
• Prof. Ken D. Jordan (University of Pittsburgh)
• Prof. Anna I. Krylov (University of Southern California)
• Prof. Paul Mulvaney (University of Melbourne)
• Prof. Arthur Nozik (CU Boulder)
• Prof. Rex T. Skodje (CU Boulder)
• Prof. Dr. John F. Stanton (UT Austin)

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