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Michael Buehl (German: Michael Bühl ) is a professor of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry in the School of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews. He is well known for his work on the performance of various density functionals, modelling thermal and medium effects, transition-metal NMR of metalloenzymes, modelling of homogeneous catalysis, and molecular dynamics of transition metal complexes.
Biography
Prof Michael Bühl was born in 1962. He did his PhD with Paul von Ragué Schleyer (whose research is cited with great frequency) in 1992 at the Institute for Organic Chemistry (Institut für organische Chemie) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Between 1992 to 1992 he worked as a post-doctoral researcher with Henry F. Schaefer III (University of Georgia). He was an Oberassistent at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Zürich between 1993 and 1999. In 1999 he also worked at 1999 Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim. He also performed his duties as faculty member at the University of Zürich from 1998 to 2000 and then at University of Wuppertal from 2000 to 2008. He is Chair of Computational Chemistry at the University of St. Andrews since 2008.
Research interests
Buehl’s group applies the tools of computational quantum chemistry to study a variety of chemical and biochemical systems and their properties, focussing on transition-metal and f-element chemistry, homogeneous and bio-catalysis, and NMR properties. State-of-the-art methods are employed, mostly rooted in density-functional theory (DFT), including quantum-mechanical/molecular-mechanical (QM/MM) calculations and first-principles molecular dynamics simulations.