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Prof. Dr. Peter R. Schreiner, spokesperson of the former LOEWE project SynChemBio and chemist at JLU Giessen, receives Schrödinger Medal
Great recognition for Prof. Dr. Peter R. Schreiner, chemist at Justus Liebig University Giessen and spokesperson for the former LOEWE research project SynChemBio (2014-2017): The World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists (WATOC) awards Prof. Schreiner this year's prestigious Schrödinger Medal. The award honors his groundbreaking work in theoretical and computational chemistry - in particular on tunnel control of chemical reactions and London dispersion forces.
“I am particularly pleased to receive this award this year of all years, as 2025 has been declared the ‘Quantum Year’ of the German Physical Society - in honor of the quantum theory developed in 1925 by Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Pauli, Bohr and others,” says Prof. Schreiner.
Prof. Schreiner is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. His research work has been recognized and funded many times, for example with the Adolf von Baeyer Medal of the German Chemical Society (2017) and an ERC Advanced Grant (2022). He received one of the highest US prizes for organic chemistry from the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award 2021. Last year, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2024 from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the most important German research funding award.