Stephan Irle

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Stephan Irle
BornJuly 13, 1967
Alma mater University of Siegen
University of Vienna
Scientific career
Fields computational chemistry
nanomaterials
Institutions Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Doctoral advisor Hans Lischka

Stephan Irle (born July 13, 1967 [1] ) is a German-American scientist, known for his work in computational chemistry and nanomaterials.

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Education and early work

Irle earned a Bachelor of Science (1990) and a Master of Science (1992) in chemistry at University of Siegen in Germany and a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Vienna (1997), advised by Hans Lischka. He carried out postdoctoral research at Emory University with Keiji Morokuma (1997-1998) and was then employed by Emory as an associate scientist (1998-2006). [2]

Career and important contributions

Irle left Emory in 2006 for a research fellowship at Kyoto University in Japan. He was appointed as an associate professor at Nagoya University, eventually becoming a full professor in the chemistry department. In 2017 he returned to the United States and joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he has been a group leader of the computational chemistry and nanomaterials sciences group since 2020. He teaches and advises students as an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University, University of Alabama, and the University of Tennessee. [3] He has also held visiting positions at Bremen University in Germany (2012 and 2018), Harbin Institute of Technology in China (2012), and the National Institute for Fusion Science in Gifu, Japan (2008-2010). [4]

At Oak Ridge, Irle studies nonequilibrium dynamics of molecular systems using quantum methods with a focus on soft matter, biosystems, [5] chemical energy storage, and catalysis. His work employs quantum chemical methods and machine learning methods. [6] His body of work includes over 300 peer-reviewed scientific papers. [7] Among his most widely cited papers are articles on porphyrins and other conjugated systems, [8] [9] fullerenes and carbon nanotubes, [10] [11] and quantum molecular dynamics methods. [12] [13]

Awards and honors

Irle is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2018). [14]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Stephan Irle - ORNL". www.ornl.gov. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
  3. ↑ Irle, Stephan. "Brief Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
  4. ↑ Irle, Stephan (May 2019). "Stephan Irle" (PDF). Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
  5. ↑ Salazar, Jorge; Austin, University of Texas at. "COVID gets quantum treatment for drug discovery". phys.org. Retrieved 2024-10-07.
  6. ↑ Yoo, Pilsun; Bhowmik, Debsindhu; Mehta, Kshitij; Zhang, Pei; Liu, Frank; Lupo Pasini, Massimiliano; Irle, Stephan (2023-11-16). "Deep learning workflow for the inverse design of molecules with specific optoelectronic properties". Scientific Reports. 13 (1): 20031. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-45385-9. ISSN   2045-2322. PMC   10654498 .
  7. ↑ "Stephan Irle". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
  8. ↑ Nozawa, Ryo; Tanaka, Hiroko; Cha, Won-Young; Hong, Yongseok; Hisaki, Ichiro; Shimizu, Soji; Shin, Ji-Young; Kowalczyk, Tim; Irle, Stephan; Kim, Dongho; Shinokubo, Hiroshi (2016-11-30). "Stacked antiaromatic porphyrins". Nature Communications. 7 (1): 13620. doi:10.1038/ncomms13620. ISSN   2041-1723. PMC   5141365 . PMID   27901014.
  9. ↑ Guo, Jia; Xu, Yanhong; Jin, Shangbin; Chen, Long; Kaji, Toshihiko; Honsho, Yoshihito; Addicoat, Matthew A.; Kim, Jangbae; Saeki, Akinori; Ihee, Hyotcherl; Seki, Shu; Irle, Stephan; Hiramoto, Masahiro; Gao, Jia; Jiang, Donglin (2013-11-13). "Conjugated organic framework with three-dimensionally ordered stable structure and delocalized π clouds". Nature Communications. 4 (1): 2736. doi:10.1038/ncomms3736. ISSN   2041-1723. PMC   3868157 . PMID   24220603.
  10. ↑ Irle, Stephan; Zheng, Guishan; Wang, Zhi; Morokuma, Keiji (2006-08-01). "The C 60 Formation Puzzle "Solved": QM/MD Simulations Reveal the Shrinking Hot Giant Road of the Dynamic Fullerene Self-Assembly Mechanism". The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 110 (30): 14531–14545. doi:10.1021/jp061173z. ISSN   1520-6106. PMID   16869552.
  11. ↑ Feng, Xue; Irle, Stephan; Witek, Henryk; Morokuma, Keiji; Vidic, Radisav; Borguet, Eric (2005-08-01). "Sensitivity of Ammonia Interaction with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Bundles to the Presence of Defect Sites and Functionalities". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127 (30): 10533–10538. doi:10.1021/ja042998u. ISSN   0002-7863. PMID   16045340.
  12. ↑ Nishizawa, Hiroaki; Nishimura, Yoshifumi; Kobayashi, Masato; Irle, Stephan; Nakai, Hiromi (2016-08-05). "Three pillars for achieving quantum mechanical molecular dynamics simulations of huge systems: Divide-and-conquer, density-functional tight-binding, and massively parallel computation". Journal of Computational Chemistry. 37 (21): 1983–1992. doi:10.1002/jcc.24419. ISSN   0192-8651. PMID   27317328.
  13. ↑ Nishimoto, Yoshio; Fedorov, Dmitri G.; Irle, Stephan (2014-11-11). "Density-Functional Tight-Binding Combined with the Fragment Molecular Orbital Method". Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 10 (11): 4801–4812. doi:10.1021/ct500489d. ISSN   1549-9618. PMID   26584367.
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