Prof. Dr. Rigoberto Hernandez

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheoretical Chemistry: Electron Structure, Dynamics, Simulation,Statistical Physics, Soft Matter, Biological Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics
KeywordsProtein unfolding, Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics, Sustainable nanoparticles, Generalized Langevin dynamics, generalized Langevin dynamics
Honours and awards

2025: ACS Presidential Succession (President in 2026)

2024: McGavock Lecture, Trinity University

2024: PASEMEM Finalist, National Science Foundation

2023: Helen Murray Free Endowed Lecture, The College of Wooster

2021: Signature Lecture, Louisiana State University

2020: Cottrell IMPACT Award, Research Corporation for Science Advancement

2020: E. Davidson Lecture, University of North Texas

2020: Eminent Scientist Lecture, ACS National Meeting

2020: Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry

2020: Leallyn Burr Clapp Lecture, Brown University

2018: Leo and June Davis Frontiers Lecture, University of Iowa

2018: Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences, SERMACS, American Chemical Society

2017: Faces of Science Seminar, Northwestern University

2017: Herty Medal

2016: Transformative Research and Exceptional Education (TREE) Award (now known as the STAR Award), Research Corporation for Science Advancement

2015: Visiting Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa Society

2014: ACS Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences

2011: Closs Lecture, University of Chicago

2011: Fellow, American Chemical Society

2011: Fellow, American Physical Society

2006: Humboldt Research Fellow (now known as for experienced researchers)

2004: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

2000: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

2000: Cottrell Scholar, Research Corporation for Science Advancement

1997: NSF CAREER Award

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityBaltimore
InstitutionJohns Hopkins University
InstituteDepartment of Chemistry
Homepagehttp://chemistry.jhu.edu/directory/rigoberto-hernandez/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Peter SaalfrankInstitut für Chemie, Universität Potsdam, Golm
Prof. Dr. Erwin FreyDepartment für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Prof. Dr. Jörg Main1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2006

Programme(s)

2006Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme
2025Humboldt Research Award Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2008John L. Gohres, Chris L. Kitchens, John P. Hallett, Alexander V. Popov, Rigoberto Hernandez, Charles L. Liotta, and Charles A. Eckert: A spectroscopic and computational exploration of the cybotactic region of gas-expanded liquids: Methanol and acetone. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2008, 4666-4673
2008Jeremy M. Moix, Rigoberto Hernandez, and Eli Pollak: The momentum and velocity autocorrelation functions of a diatomic molecule are not necessarily proportional to each other. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry B , 2008, 213-218
2008Thomas Bartsch Jeremy M. Moix Rigoberto Hernandez S. Kawai Turgay Uzer: Time-dependent transition state theory. In: Adv. Chem. Phys. , 2008, 191-238
2008Thomas Bartsch, Turgay Uzer, Jeremy M. Moix and Rigoberto Hernandez: Transition state theory rate calculations with a recrossing-free moving dividing surface. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry B , 2008, 206-212
2007Jeremy M. Moix, and Rigoberto Hernandez: The role of long-time correlation in dissipative adsorbate dynamics on metal surfaces. In: Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry , 2007, 137-151