Florian Müller-Plathe

Florian Müller-Plathe (born 1960 in Hamburg) is a German theoretical chemist and professor for theoretical physical chemistry at Technische Universität Darmstadt.

Academic career

Müller-Plathe studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany and obtained his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, under the guidance of Geerd Diercksen. He spent several years as a post-doctoral researcher at Daresbury Laboratory, UK, and at ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich), with Wilfred F. van Gunsteren, where he was awarded his habilitation in physical chemistry in 1994. He led a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany, from 1996 until 2002, when he was appointed full professor of physical chemistry at the Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. In 2005, Müller-Plathe accepted a position as a full professor for theoretical physical chemistry at Technische Universität Darmstadt. He was vice-dean for research of the chemistry department at TU Darmstadt from 2007 to 2013. Müller-Plathe was coordinator of the Priority Programme 1369 Polymer-Solid-Contacts – Interfaces & Interphases of the Deutsche Forschungs­gemeinschaft.

In 2015 and 2016, he was visiting fellow in the department of chemical and biological engineering of Princeton University, USA. He was visiting professor at University of São Paulo, Instituto de Física, Brazil from 1995 to 2000.

From 2001 to 2022, Müller-Plathe was Editor-in-Chief of Soft Materials published by Taylor & Francis.

He is co-founder and co-owner of inter Culturas, who specializes in cross-cultural training and diversity management. His field of expertise is cross-cultural leadership.

Research

Müller-Plathe has worked on the molecular simulation of fluids, polymers and materials, with a focus on polymer materials, e.g. interphases,[1] and molecular processes occurring inside them, e.g. permeation.[2] His work also includes major development efforts for computational methods, algorithms, models and software. Methods which go back to him are the Iterative Boltzmann Inversion (IBI) used for generating systematically coarse-grained polymer models for multiscale modeling,[3] reverse non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (RNEMD) for the calculation of thermal conductivities and shear viscosities,[4] as well as the phantom-wall method for obtaining interfacial free energies for the wetting of solid substrates by complex fluids.[5]

Awards

In 2014, Müller-Plathe was awarded the Athene-Award for interdisciplinary teaching by the Giersch-Foundation.[6] From 1979 to 1985, he held a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.

Memberships

In 2009, Müller-Plathe was elected a regular member of the class of mathematics and sciences of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Germany.

References
  1. Ndoro, Tinashe V. M.; Voyiatzis, Evangelos; Ghanbari, Azadeh; Theodorou, Doros N.; Böhm, Michael C.; Müller-Plathe, Florian (8 March 2011). "Interface of Grafted and Ungrafted Silica Nanoparticles with a Polystyrene Matrix: Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulations". Macromolecules. American Chemical Society (ACS). 44 (7): 2316–2327. doi:10.1021/ma102833u. ISSN 0024-9297.
  2. Müller-Plathe, Florian (1994). "Permeation of polymers — a computational approach". Acta Polymerica. Wiley. 45 (4): 259–293. doi:10.1002/actp.1994.010450401. ISSN 0323-7648.
  3. Reith, Dirk; Pütz, Mathias; Müller-Plathe, Florian (12 August 2003). "Deriving effective mesoscale potentials from atomistic simulations". Journal of Computational Chemistry. Wiley. 24 (13): 1624–1636. arXiv:cond-mat/0211454. doi:10.1002/jcc.10307. ISSN 0192-8651. PMID 12926006. S2CID 1933490.
  4. Müller-Plathe, Florian (8 April 1997). "A simple nonequilibrium molecular dynamics method for calculating the thermal conductivity". The Journal of Chemical Physics. AIP Publishing. 106 (14): 6082–6085. doi:10.1063/1.473271. ISSN 0021-9606.
  5. Leroy, Frédéric; Müller-Plathe, Florian (28 July 2010). "Solid-liquid surface free energy of Lennard-Jones liquid on smooth and rough surfaces computed by molecular dynamics using the phantom-wall method". The Journal of Chemical Physics. AIP Publishing. 133 (4): 044110. doi:10.1063/1.3458796. ISSN 0021-9606. PMID 20687636.
  6. "Vorbildliche Lehre wird auch in diesem Jahr belohnt". TU Darmstadt (in German). 12 November 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
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