Richard Dronskowski

Richard Dronskowski (born 11 November 1961, in Brilon) is a German chemist and physicist. He is a full professor at the RWTH Aachen University.

Life
Dronskowski studied chemistry and physics at the University of Münster from 1981 to 1986. He completed his chemistry diploma with Bernt Krebs and Arndt Simon in 1987. He finished his physics diploma with Ole Krogh Andersen and Johannes Pollmann in 1989. He received his doctorate under supervision of Arndt Simon at the University of Stuttgart. From 1991 to 1992, he was a visiting scientist in the group of Roald Hoffmann at Cornell University. In 1995, he finished his habilitation at the University of Dortmund. Since 1997, he is a full professor at the RWTH Aachen University.

Research
His research focuses on the following topics:


 * solid-state chemistry
 * quantum chemistry
 * nitrides
 * carbodiimides
 * guanidinates
 * intermetallics
 * steel
 * phase-change materials
 * chemical bonding (e.g., Crystal Orbital Hamilton Populations)
 * ab initio thermochemistry
 * structural chemistry
 * neutron diffraction

Awards

 * 1990 Otto Hahn Medal (Max Planck Society)
 * 1996 Prize of Angewandte Chemie
 * 1997 Chemistry Lecturer Prize (Fonds der chemischen Industrie)
 * 2014 Distinguished Professorship (RWTH Aachen University)
 * 2015 Innovation Award (RWTH Aachen University)
 * 2017 Egon Wiberg Lecture (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)