We would like to congratulate the 2020 Fresenius Award winner – Professor Timothy Berkelbach of Columbia University. Berkelbach leads a theoretical chemistry group interested in the electronic and optical properties of molecular, nanoscale, and condensed-phase materials. The team works on a variety of quantum-mechanical problems motivated by excited-state phenomena. This research occurs at the interface of physical chemistry, condensed-matter physics, and materials science. In particular, Berkelbach is interested in quantum dynamics, the phenomenology of emerging materials, and first-principles condensed-phase quantum chemistry.
Congratulations also to all of the other ACS National Award Winners (updated August 2020).