Hofer, Werner - Newcastle University

个人简介

Professor Werner Hofer is Professor of Chemical Physics, with expertise in theoretical condensed matter physics, physical chemistry, and electron theory, including fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics. He holds a master degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Technology, Vienna, and a PhD in Condensed Matter Theory from the same University. Prof. Hofer is internationally known for his work on the nanoscience of surfaces and interfaces, and has worked for nearly twenty years in this field with international collaborators in Canada, the US, China, and Europe. He is also known for his work on fundamental physics, in particular electron theory and foundational aspects of quantum mechanics, which he considers an outdated and contradictory theoretical framework. From 1999 to 2002 he was research assistant and research associate at University College London, from 2002 to 2014 he was Lecturer, Reader (2005) and Professor (2006) in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Liverpool. He was awarded a competitive Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2003, which he held until 2011. From 2007 to 2013 he was an international member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, participating in research on nanoelectronics. Since 2014 he is Professor of Chemical Physics at Newcastle University. His editorial roles include member of the editorial board of Journal of Physics (2005-2008), Editor of the Elsevier journal Surfaces and Interfaces (2016-2017), and Associate Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers of Physics (Chinese Academy of Sciences and Springer, since 2016). He publishes regularly in high-impact journals like Nature, Nature Chemistry & Nanotechnology, Angewandte Chemie, Reviews of Modern Physics, Physical Review Letters, Nano Letters, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society. In 2010 he became Founding Director of the Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy at Liverpool University, which he led until 2014, building up the institute to its current strength of 60 researchers and a portfolio of £30m in research funding. Part of this role included planning and supervising the build of new laboratories and offices containing 2000 square meters. The institute’s contribution to REF 2014 of eight researchers was a major factor in the success of Chemistry in Liverpool (top unit in the country with respect to 3* and 4* outputs, 11th in the country if all science and engineering units are considered). In 2014 he became Dean of Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Science, Agriculture, and Engineering, contributing substantially to the eventual restructuring of the Faculty into four, instead of ten schools in 2017. He resigned as a Dean with effect from June 2018 to focus on his research, in particular the development of new methods to efficiently simulate systems composed of millions of atoms.

研究领域

Condensed Matter Theory, Physical Chemistry, Electron Theory, Quantum Mechanics

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Pope T, Du S, Gao H-J, Hofer W. Electronic effects and fundamental physics in molecular interfaces. Chemical Communications 2018, epub ahead of print. Chen H, Pope T, Wu Z, Wang D, Tao L, Bao D, Xiao W, Zhang J, Zhang Y, Du S, Gao S, Pantelides ST, Hofer WA, Gao H-J. Evidence for Ultralow-Energy Vibrations in Large Organic Molecules. Nano Letters 2017, 17(18), 4929-4933. Pope T, Hofer WA. Spin in the extended electron model. Frontiers of Physics 2017, 12(3), 128503. Xiao W, Ernst KH, Palotas K, Zhang Y, Bruyer E, Peng L, Greber T, Hofer WA, Scott LT, Fasel R. Microscopic origin of chiral shape induction in achiral crystals. Nature Chemistry 2016, 8, 326-330. Schwarz F, Wang YF, Hofer WA, Berndt R, Runge E, Kröger J. Electronic and Vibrational States of Single Tin-Phthalocyanine Molecules in Double Layers on Ag(111). The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2015, 119(27), 15716-15722. Ayissi S, Charpentier P, Palotás K, Farhangi N, Schwarz F, Hofer W. Preferential Adsorption of TiO2 Nanostructures on Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: A DFT Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2015, 119(27), 15085-15093. Liu L, Yang K, Jiang Y, Song B, Xiao W, Song S, Du S, Ouyang M, Hofer WA, Castro-Neto AH, Gao HJ. Revealing Atomic Site-dependent g-factor within a single Magnetic Molecule via Extended Kondo Effect. Physical Review Letters 2015, 114(12), 126601. Hofer WA. Solving the dark matter problem through dynamic interactions. Frontiers of Physics 2015, 10(6), 109502. Sachse T, Neel N, Meierott S, Berndt R, Hofer WA, Kroger J. Electronic and magnetic states of Mn2 and Mn2H on Ag(111). New Journal of Physics 2014, 16, 063012. Hofer WA. Elements of physics for the 21st century. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2014, 504, 1-16. Zhang LZ, Du SX, SUN JT, Huang L, Meng L, Xu WY, Pan LD, Pan Y, Wang YL, Hofer WA, Gao HJ. Growth Mechanism of Metal Clusters on a Graphene/Ru(0001) Template. Advanced Materials Interfaces 2014, 1(3), 1. Palotas K, Mandi G, Hofer WA. Three-dimensional Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approach for the simulation of scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. Frontiers of Physics 2014, 9(6), 711-747. Czekala PT, Panosetti C, Lin HP, Hofer WA. van der Waals corrected DFT study of high coverage benzene adsorptions on Si(100) surface and STM simulations. Surface Science 2014, 621, 152-161. Meng L, Wang YL, Zhang LZ, Du SX, Wu RT, Li LF, Zhang Y, Li G, Zhou HT, Hofer WA, Gao HJ. Buckled Silicene Formation on Ir(111). Nano Letters 2013, 13, 685-690. Ayissi S, Charpentier PA, Farhangi N, Wood JA, Palotas K, Hofer WA. Interaction of Titanium Oxide Nanostructures with Graphene and Functionalized Graphene Nanoribbons: A DFT Study. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2013, 117, 25424-25432. Liu LW, Yang K, Jiang YH, Song BQ, Xiao WD, Li LF, Zhou HT, Wang YL, Du SX, Ouyang M, Hofer WA, Castro-Neto AH, Gao HJ. Reversible Single Spin Control of Individual Magnetic Molecule by Hydrogen Atom Adsorption. Scientific Reports 2013, 3, 1210. HOFER WA. Heisenberg, uncertainty, and the scanning tunneling microscope. Frontiers of Physics 2012, 7, 218-222. Woolcot T, Teobaldi G, Pang CL, Beglitis NS, Fisher AJ, Hofer WA, Thornton G. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Contrast Mechanisms for TiO2. Physical Review Letters 2012, 109, 156105. Palotas K, Hofer WA, Szunyogh L. Simulation of spin-polarized scanning tunneling spectroscopy on complex magnetic surfaces: Case of a Cr monolayer on Ag(111). Physical Review B 2012, 85, 205427.