Jörg Meyer
Associate Professor
- Name
- Dr. J. Meyer
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 5569
- j.meyer@chem.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0146-730X
Jörg Meyer investigates energy conversion at interfaces at the atomic scale. Starting from the Schrödinger equation, he develops and employs computer simulation techniques.
Curriculum Vitae
Personal information
Nationality: German
Date of birth: 8 June 1981
Education
2012 PhD, Faculty of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 16 February 2012 (summa cum laude)
Thesis title: ‘Ab initio modelling of Energy Dissipation during Chemical Reactions on Transition Metal surfaces’
Advisor: Prof. Dr. K. Reuter
2006 Diploma in Physics, Faculty of Physics, Universität Hannover, Germany (with distinction)
Current and previous research positions
2015 – now Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, The Netherlands
2013 – 2014 Post-doctoral Researcher, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, The Netherlands (Prof. G.J. Kroes)
2012 – 2013 Post-doctoral Researcher, Department Chemie, Technische Universität München, Germany (Prof. K. Reuter)
Grants, awards, recognitions since 2010
2018 NWO-ENW Supercomputing grant together with I.M.N. Groot
2017 NWO-ENW “Materials for Sustainability” programme grant together with L.B.F. Juurlink and J.M. Bakker (k€ 700)
2015 NWO-CW Vidi grant (k€ 800)
2013 Winner of Young Investigator Competition at Gordon Research Conference “Dynamics at Surfaces” & DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) travel grant (2nd time in a row)
2011 Winner of Young Investigator Competition at Gordon Research Conference “Dynamics at Surfaces” & DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) travel grant (1st time in a row)
Contribution to teaching and supervision
- Course (annual) for MSc Chemistry at Leiden University: Density Functional Theory in Practice
- Course (annual) for BSc Molecular Science and Technology (Leiden/Delft): Quantumchemie en Fysica
- Lecture for course Physical Methods in Inorganic Chemistry of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC): From the foundations to practical DFT calculations
- Lectures for Winter School on Theoretical chemistry in Han-sur-Lesse: Machine Learning in Computational Chemistry
Co-supervision of 6 PhD students and 3 postdoctoral fellows (including 1 VENI laureate) since 2015.
Other responsibilities since 2012
- Co-organiser of the second KNCV-CTC symposium (Leiden University, 2020)
- Organiser of focus session “Beyond Arrhenius - vibrationally promoted conversion of inert molecules” at national chemistry conference CHAINS 2019
- Co-organiser of the KNCV-CTC kick-off symposium (VU Amsterdam, 2019)
- Selected as a returning mentor for the International High-Performance Computing Summer School (IHPCSS) in 2018
- Founding board member of the division for Computational and Theoretical Chemistry (CTC) of the Royal Dutch Society for Chemistry (KNCV, since 2017)
- Co-organiser and lecturer of the International Summer School “Towards a sustainable energy future – role of catalysis?” (2017, for 3rd year BSc students)
- Member of programme committee for MSc chemistry at Leiden university (since 2016)
- Member of the institute council of the Leiden Institute for Chemistry (since 2015)
- Co-organiser of colloquia on Fundamental Research in Energy & Sustainability (FRESH, since 2015)
- Co-chair of Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) “Dynamics at Surfaces” (2013)
- Reviewer for The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Physical Review Letter, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Surface Science, Journal of Computational Chemistry (among others)
Publication record including five recent representative publications
35 papers with >1000 citations, H-index 15 (Web of Science)
Full publication record: Leiden University, ORCID or ResearcherID (E-7638-2012)
- Rasti, S.; Meyer, J.
Importance of Zero-Point Energy for Crystalline Ice Phases: A Comparison of Force Fields and Density Functional Theory.
J. Chem. Phys. 2019, 150 (23), 234504. DOI: 10.1063/1.5097021
part of special topic “Chemical Physics of Supercooled Water” - Spiering, P.; Shakouri, K.; Behler, J.; Kroes, G.-J.; Meyer, J.
Orbital-Dependent Electronic Friction Significantly Affects the Description of Reactive Scattering of N2 from Ru(0001).
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2019, 10, 2957–2962. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00523 - Chen, L.; Lau, J. A.; Schwarzer, D.; Meyer, J.; Verma, V. B.; Wodtke, A. M.
The Sommerfeld Ground-Wave Limit for a Molecule Adsorbed at a Surface.
Science 2018, 363 (6423), 158–161. DOI: 10.1126/science.aav4278 - Spiering, P.; Meyer, J.
Testing Electronic Friction Models: Vibrational De-Excitation in Scattering of H2 and D2 from Cu(111).
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2018, 9, 1803–1808. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b03182 - Shakouri, K.; Behler, J.; Meyer, J.; Kroes, G.-J.
Accurate Neural Network Description of Surface Phonons in Reactive Gas–Surface Dynamics: N 2 + Ru(0001).
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2017, 8, 2131–2136. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b00784
Presentations including five presentations at international conferences since 2010
>25 invited presentations at academic institutions, companies, workshops and conferences plus 2 young investigator prize winner’s talks at Gordon Research Conferences
- 258th ACS National Meeting, Symposium on “Water in the Universe” (August 2019, San Diego, CA, USA)
- GRC “Dynamics at Surfaces” (July 2019, Newport, RI, USA)
- 15th SDMC Meeting (Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Molecules and Clusters, February 2018, Dooars, India)
- CECAM workshop on “Challenges in reaction dynamics of gas-surface interactions and methodological advances in dissipative and non-adiabatic processes” (June 2017, Albi, France)
- 23rd IASBS Meeting on Condensed Matter Physics (May 2017, Zanjan, Iran)
Associate Professor
- Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry
- LIC/Energy & Sustainability
- Chen L., Lau J.A., Schwarzer D., Meyer J., Verma V.B. & Wodtke A.M. (2019), The Sommerfeld ground-wave limit for a molecule adsorbed at a surface, Science 363(6423): 158-161.
- Rasti S. & Meyer J. (2019), Importance of Zero-Point Energy for Crystalline Ice Phases: A Comparison of Force Fields and Density Functional Theory, Journal of Chemical Physics 150(23): 234504.
- Spiering P., Shakouri K., Behler J., Kroes G.J. & Meyer J. (2019), Orbital-Dependent Electronic Friction Significantly Affects the Description of Reactive Scattering of N2 from Ru(0001), Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 10: 2957-2962.
- Maheshwari S., Fridriksson M.B., Seal S., Meyer J. & Grozema F.C. (2019), The Relation between Rotational Dynamics of the Organic Cation and Phase Transitions in Hybrid Halide Perovskites, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123(23): 14652–14661.
- Spiering P. & Meyer J. (2018), Testing Electronic Friction Models: Vibrational De-excitation in Scattering of H2 and D2 from Cu(111), Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 9(7): 1803-1808.
- Shakouri K., Behler J., Meyer J. & Kroes G.J. (2017), Accurate Neural Network Description of Surface Phonons in Reactive Gas-Surface Dynamics: N2+ Ru (0001), Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 8(10): 2131-2136.
- Godsi O., Corem G., Alkoby Y., Cantin T., Krems R.V., Somers M.F., Meyer J., Kroes G.J., Maniv T. & Alexandrowicz G. (2017), A general method for controlling and resolving rotational orientation of molecules in molecule-surface collisions, Nature Communications 8: 15357.
- Rittmeyer S.P., Meyer J. & Reuter K. (2017), Nonadiabatic Vibrational Damping of Molecular Adsorbates: Insights into Electronic Friction and the Role of Electronic Coherence, Physical Review Letters 119(17): 176808.
- Doblhoff-Dier K., Meyer J., Hoggan P.E. & Kroes G.J. (2017), Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations on a Benchmark Molecule - Metal Surface Reaction: H2 + Cu(111), Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 13(7): 3208-3219.
- Doblhoff-Dier K., Meyer J., Hoggan P.E., Kroes G.J. & Wagner L.K. (2016), Diffusion Monte Carlo for accurate dissociation energies of 3d transition metal containing molecules, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 12(6): 2583-2597.
- Wijzenbroek M., Helstone D., Meyer J. & Kroes G.J. (2016), Dynamics of H2 dissociation on the close-packed (111) surface of the noblest metal: H2 + Au(111), Journal of Chemical Physics 145(14): 144701.
- Rittmeyer S.P., Meyer J., Juaristi J.I. & Reuter K. (2015), Electronic Friction-Based Vibrational Lifetimes of Molecular Adsorbates: Beyond the Independent-Atom Approximation, Physical Review Letters 115(4): 046102.
- Bukas V.J., Mitra S., Meyer J. & Reuter K. (2015), Fingerprints of energy dissipation for exothermic surface chemical reactions: O2 on Pd(100), Journal of Chemical Physics 143(3): 034705.
- Meyer J. & Reuter K. (2014), Modeling Heat Dissipation at the Nanoscale: An Embedding Approach for Chemical Reaction Dynamics on Metal Surfaces, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION IN ENGLISH 53(18): 4721-4724.
- Meyer J. & Reuter K. (2014), Modellierung von Wärmedissipation auf der Nanoskala: ein Einbettungsansatz für chemische Reaktionen auf Metalloberflächen, Angewandte Chemie 126(18): 4813-4816.
- Zaum C., Meyer J., Reuter K. & Morgenstern K. (2014), Quantitative determination of a nano-object's atom density without atomic resolution, Physical Review B : Condensed Matter 90(16): 165418.
- Goikoetxea I., Meyer J., Juaristi J.I. , Alducin M. & Reuter K. (2014), Role of Physisorption States in Molecular Scattering: A Semilocal Density-Functional Theory Study on O2/Ag(111), Physical Review Letters 112(15): 156101.
- Sirtl T., Jelic J., Meyer J., Das K., Heckl W.M., Moritz W., Rundgren J., Schmittel M., Reuter K. & Lackinger M. (2013), Adsorption structure determination of a large polyaromatic trithiolate on Cu(111): combination of LEED-I(V) and DFT-vdW, PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS 15(26): 11054-11060.
- Bukas V.J., Meyer J., Alducin M. & Reuter K. (2013), Ready, Set and no Action: A Static Perspective on Potential Energy Surfaces commonly used in Gas-Surface Dynamics, ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PHYSIKALISCHE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS 227(9-11): 1523-1542.
- Mercurio G., Maurer R. J., Liu W., Hagen S., Leyssner F., Tegeder P., Meyer J., Tkatchenko A., Soubatch S., Reuter K. & Tautz F.S. (2013), Quantification of finite-temperature effects on adsorption geometries of π-conjugated molecules: Azobenzene/Ag(111), PHYSICAL REVIEW B 88(3): 035421.
- Carbogno C., Gross A., Meyer J. & Reuter K. (2013), O2 Adsorption Dynamics at Metal Surfaces: Non-Adiabatic Effects, Dissociation and Dissipation. In: Díez Muiño R., Fabio Busnengo H. (Eds.) Springer Series in Surface Sciences. no. 50: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 389-419.
- Goikoetxea I., Beltran J., Meyer J., Juaristi J.I., Alducin M. & Reuter K. (2012), Non-adiabatic effects during the dissociative adsorption of O2 at Ag(111)? A first-principles divide and conquer study, New Journal of Physics 14: 013050.
- Carbogno C., Gross A., Meyer J. & Reuter K. (2012), O2 Adsorption Dynamics at Metal Surfaces: Non-Adiabatic Effects, Dissociation and Dissipation. In: Muiño R.D., Busnengo H.F. (Eds.) Dynamics of Gas-Surface Interactions: Atomic-Level Description of Elementary Processes.: Springer Berlin. 389-419.
- Meyer J. & Reuter K. (2011), Electron–hole pairs during the adsorption dynamics of O2 on Pd(100): exciting or not?, New Journal of Physics 13(8): 085010.
- McNellis E.R., Bronner C., Meyer J., Weinelt M., Tegeder P. & Reuter K. (2010), Azobenzene versus 3,3 ',5,5 '-tetra-tert-butyl-azobenzene (TBA) at Au(111): characterizing the role of spacer groups, PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS 12(24): 6404-6412.
- McNellis E.R., Mercurio G., Hagen S., Leyssner F., Meyer J., Soubatch S., Wolf M., Reuter K., Tegeder P. & Tautz F.S. (2010), Bulky spacer groups - A valid strategy to control the coupling of functional molecules to surfaces?, CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS 499(4-6): 247-249.
- Korventausta A., Meyer J. & Nieminen J. (2010), Carrier wave effect in nonresonant inelastic scanning tunneling spectroscopy of molecules with delocalized frontier orbitals, Physical Review B 81(24): 245426.
- Mercurio G., McNellis E.R., Martin I., Hagen S., Leyssner F., Soubatch S., Meyer J., Wolf M., Tegeder P., Tautz F.S. & Reuter K. (2010), Structure and Energetics of Azobenzene on Ag(111): Benchmarking Semiempirical Dispersion Correction Approaches, Physical Review Letters 104(3): 036102.
- Simic-Milosevic V., Meyer J. & Morgenstern K. (2009), Chirality Change of Chloronitrobenzene on Au(111) Induced by Inelastic Electron Tunneling, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 48(22): 4061-4064.
- McNellis E.R., Meyer J. & Reuter K. (2009), Azobenzene at coinage metal surfaces: Role of dispersive van der Waals interactions, Physical Review B 80(20): 205414.
- McNellis E., Meyer J., Baghi A.D. & Reuter K. (2009), Stabilizing a molecular switch at solid surfaces: A density functional theory study of azobenzene on Cu(111), Ag(111), and Au(111), Physical Review B : Condensed Matter 80(3).
- Simic-Milosevic V., Meyer J. & Morgenstern K. (2008), Electron-induced isomerisation of dichlorobenzene on Cu(111) and Ag(111), PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS 10(14): 1916-1920.
- Bredow T., Tegenkamp C., Pfnuer H., Meyer J., Maslyuk V.V. & Mertig I. (2008), Ferrocene-1,1'-dithiol as molecular wire between Ag electrodes: The role of surface defects, Journal of Chemical Physics 128(6).
- Simic-Milosevic V., Mehlhorn M., Rieder K.H., Meyer J. & Morgenstern K. (2007), Electron induced ortho-meta isomerization of single molecules, Physical Review Letters 98(11): 116102.
- Meyer J., Bredow T., Tegenkamp C. & Pfnür H. (2006), Thiol and thiolate bond formation of ferrocene-1,1-dithiol to a Ag(111) surface., Journal of Chemical Physics 125(19): 194705.
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