Tutors
We feel very fortunate that many of our colleagues from the universities of Basel, Bern, Geneva, Neuchatel and Zürich as well as from the Federal Institutes of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ) and Lausanne (EPFL) have agreed to teach at the Zürich School of Crystallography 2009. They bring to the School not only considerable experience in all aspects of teaching and conducting chemical crystallography, but also come from a broad range of diverse scientific backgrounds.
List of Tutors
Hans-Beat Bürgi .:. Gervais Chapuis .:. Howard Flack .:. Jürg Hauser .:. Anthony Linden .:. Markus Neuburger .:. Lukas Palatinus .:. Bernd Schweizer .:. Bernhard Spingler .:. Michael WörleHans-Beat Bürgi
(Emeritus Professor, Laboratory of Chemical and Mineralogical Crystallography, University of Bern, Switzerland)
Hans-Beat has been teaching the theoretical background and the practical aspects of X-ray crystal structure determination at the University of Bern, Switzerland, for the last 29 years. He has applied crystallographic methods to the study of organic and inorganic materials (e.g. fullerenes). He is one of the pioneers in the field of data mining developed originally for the determination of chemical reaction pathways from crystal structure data. His current research deals with the dynamics of molecules in crystals from multi-temperature X-ray analyses. Other interests include the structure determination of severely disordered molecular crystals from diffuse scattering data.
Gervais Chapuis
(Professor and Director of the Laboratoire de Cristallographie, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Gervais is professor of physics and crystallography at the Swiss Federal School of Technology in Lausanne. He has many years of teaching experience in crystallography at all levels for physicists, chemists and material scientists. For the last few years, he has been very active in developing a full, web based e-crystallography course which is now freely available on the web. He is a member of the Commission of Crystallographic Teaching of the International Union of Crystallography and a co-editor of Acta Crystallographica. Gervais’ research interests are in the theoretical and experimental study of aperiodic, and in particular incommensurate, structures by diffraction experiments and molecular dynamics calculations.
Howard Flack
('Chargé de Cours', Laboratoire de Cristallographie, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Jürg Hauser
(Scientific collaborator, Laboratory of Chemical and Mineralogical Crystallography, University of Bern, Switzerland)Jürg’s background is in chemistry, crystallography and soft ware engineering. He has been teaching and tutoring synthetic chemists interested in doing their own crystal structure analyses for the last 22 years. He has been developing specialized crystallographic software for analyzing and plotting atomic displacement parameters (program PEANUT) and has tended the highly diverse programme library of the laboratory. Apart from classical crystal and molecular structure determinations Jürg is studying disordered crystals with the help of diffuse scattering data.
Anthony Linden
(Privatdozent-Lecturer, Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Zürich, Switzerland)Tony is Manager of the X-ray Crystallography Facility in the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the University of Zürich. He has over 28 years experience in all aspects of crystal structure determination involving a wide range of organic molecules, inorganic materials and organometallic complexes. He likes and is adept at handling complicated structure determinations. He is the Editor of Section C of Acta Crystallographica and a member of the Advisory Board of Helvetica Chimica Acta. Tony teaches crystallography courses at the University of Zürich and at the ETH Zürich.
Markus Neuburger
(Scientific collaborator, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel) Markus is running the laboratory that does all of the crystal structures for the research groups in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Basel. He has 17 years of experience in the field and the structures done in his laboratory are mostly organometallic compounds and organic molecules, but there are also purely inorganic structures done from time to time. His special interest is in structures showing disorder problems and in ways and methods to refine them and to better understand the reasons for the occurrence of the disorder.
Lukas Palatinus
(Postdoctoral collaborator, Laboratoire de Cristallographie, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)Lukas is a crystallographer by education. He is interested in the solution of the phase problem by iterative dual-space methods, and is developing software for structure solution based on these methods, especially involving the charge-flipping algorithm. One of his specific interests is in incommensurately modulated structures. Lukas is also studying the application of the maximum-entropy method to reconstructions of modulated structures.
Bernd Schweizer
(Scientific collaborator, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)Bernd studied chemistry at the ETH Zürich and obtained his PhD in chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Jack Dunitz in 1977. His activities within the chemistry department of the ETH and his scientific interests are partly in the X-ray analysis of organic materials and partly in the use of structural databases for applications in structural chemistry and crystal structure prediction.
Bernhard Spingler
(Lecturer, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Zürich, Switzerland)Bernhard has more than 14 years of crystallographic experience with point detectors, image plates and CCDs, at sealed tube- and rotating anode-sources as well as second and third generation synchrotrons. Over 140 entries in the Cambridge Crystallographic Database go to his credit. His research centres around bioinorganic chemistry. He has handled delicate crystals like biomacromolecules (DNA) on the one hand or small reactive molecules under strictly anhydrous conditions on the other. Bernhard has been teaching crystallography at the University of Zürich since 2002.
Michael Wörle
(Lecturer, Laboratorium of Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)Michael is doing research in the field of inorganic solid state chemistry: synthesis as well as the study of structural, chemical and physical properties of a wide range of solids (group of Prof. Reinhard Nesper). During the course of his work over the last 19 years he has been concerned with common crystallographic problems related to solid state chemistry such as twinning, disorder and pseudosymmetry. Michael is teaching crystallography at the ETH Zürich and University of Zürich, Switzerland.
