Prof. Dr. Gabriel Bester
Photo: Nina Schober
Research group leader
Address
Universität Hamburg
Institute of Physical Chemistry
Research Group Bester
Luruper Chaussee 149
22761 Hamburg
Office
HARBOR, Bldg. 610
Room: 2001
Contact
Tel: +49 40 42838-5893
ORCID: 0000-0003-2304-0817
Gabriel Bester is a theoretical physicist and a full professor at the University of Hamburg. He earned his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, specializing in the quantification of bond energies. Subsequently, he spent seven years at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) as a senior scientist in the group of Alex Zunger. He led an independent research group at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research between 2007 and 2014 before joining the University of Hamburg. His research interests include the development of numerical methods for nanoscopic systems with a focus on excited state properties.