TEAM
Our devoted team of excellent scientists and software engineers puts all its passion and expertise into bringing quantum chemistry to everyone and turn visions into facts!
Dr. Christoph Riplinger
Managing Director & Co-founder
Dr. Barbara Sandhöfer
Legal / IP & Co-founder
Dr. Bernardo de Souza
Senior Scientist
Tim Tetenberg, M.Sc.
Backend Developer
Dr. Gregor Giesen
Senior Software Architect and DevOps Engineer
Dr. Miquel A. Garcia-Ratés
Computational Scientist
Dr. Georgi L. Stoychev
Senior Computational Scientist
Dr. Johannes Grün
Software Engineer
Dr. Jeroen Koopman
Senior Computational Scientist
Dr. Markus Bursch
Application Scientist
Nakul Santhosh
Junior Software Engineer
Anastasios Papadopoulos, M. Sc.
Computational Scientist
Dr. Ingolf Harden
Computational Scientist
Dr. Severin Polonius
Computational Scientist
Dr. Hagen Neugebauer
Computational Scientist
Shiyao Ju
Junior Software Developer
Christoph Plett, M.Sc.
Computational Scientist
Scientific Advisors
To create excellent software and workflow solutions, we teamed up with outstanding experts from academia and industry. Thanks to our close collaboration, we are able to combine the latest scientific developments with high industrial standards.
Prof. Frank Neese
Head of Scientific Advisory Board & Co-founder
Prof. Frank Neese, director at the Max-Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung and 2010 Leibniz award winner, co-founded FACCTs and acts as the head of our scientific advisory board.
Prof. Benjamin List
Scientific Advisor
Prof. Benjamin List, the 2021 Nobel Prize winner and one of the world’s leading experts in catalysis, joined our scientific advisory board in 2023.
Prof. Stefan Grimme
Scientific Advisor
Prof. Stefan Grimme, full professor at the University of Bonn and 2015 Leibniz prize winner, joined our scientific advisory board in 2019.
Prof. Michael Edmund Beck
Scientific Advisor
Prof. Michael Edmund Beck, Chief Data Scientist at Bayer Crop Science and Prof. h. c. at the TU Dortmund University, joined our scientific advisory board in 2023.
Dr. Benjamin Helmich-Paris
Scientific Advisor
Dr. Benjamin Helmich-Paris, junior research group leader at the Max-Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung, joined our scientific advisory board in 2022.
Assoc. Prof. Giovanni Bistoni
Scientific Advisor
Giovanni Bistoni, Associate Professor at the University of Perugia, joined our scientific advisory board in 2024. He is an leading expert on the quantum chemical analysis of non-covalent interactions and computational catalysis.