Editor biographies

Hilke Bahmann received her PhD at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg under the supervision of Martin Kaupp in 2010. After postdoctoral stays at the Technical University of Berlin, the University of Potsdam with Peter Saalfrank and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with Paola Gori-Giorgi, she became an independent Emmy Noether Junior Group leader at Saarland University in 2019. In 2022 she relocated to Bergische Universität Wuppertal where she is currently an Assistant Professor in Theoretical Chemistry. Her research is dedicated to advancing methods within the field of Kohn–Sham density functional theory to characterize the electronic structure at interfaces and in systems with strong electron-correlation. Additionally, she focuses on the efficient implementation of novel methodologies for ground and excited states in quantum chemical software packages.

Jean Christophe Tremblay received his PhD from the Université de Montréal under the supervision of Tucker Carrington Jr. in 2007. After a postdoctoral stay with Peter Saalfrank at the Universität Potsdam (2007–2012), he became Emmy Noether junior group leader at Freie Universität Berlin (2012–2018), where he received his habilitation in Theoretical Chemistry in 2017 under the guidance of Beate Paulus. In 2018, he was named professor of Theoretical Physics at the Université de Lorraine (France), in the Laboratoire de Physique et Chime Théoriques. His research covers various topics in dissipative dynamics of open quantum systems, ranging from fundamental processes at surfaces to correlated many-electron dynamics, ultrafast imaging, electron transport, and vibrational spectroscopy. An important focus of his research has been on the development of numerical methods and theoretical models to simulate environmental effects on the dynamics in nanoscopic systems.