Barbara Kirchner

Barbara Kirchner studied chemistry in Freiburg, Mainz and Chemnitz and obtained her PhD at the University of Basel. Before she accepted the professorship for theoretical chemistry at the University of Leipzig, she conducted research in Germany, Switzerland and Australia. Her field of activity spans from examining solvents and reactions, intermolecular forces and molecular quantum mechanical calculations of interesting molecules to programme development. She is the editor of the volumes Ionic Liquids and Multiscale Molecular Methods in Applied Chemistry in the series Topics in Current Chemistry, for which she also works on Electronic Effects in Organic Chemistry. She is co-editor of the book series Lecture Notes in Chemistry. In addition to that, Barbara Kirchner also writes for various daily newspapers and magazines (such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, Spex, De-bug, Texte zur Kunst). She has written one novel and, in cooperation with Dietmar Dath, two further books.