Dr. Jan-Michael Mewes

Recent Publications: (all)

Schmitz, Schwerdtfeger, Grimme, Mewes, JACS, 2021/22 (just accepted)
“It's Complicated: On Relativistic Effects and Periodic Trends in the Melting and Boiling Points of the Group 11 Coinage Metals”

Kunze, Hansen, Grimme, Mewes, JPCL, 2021 
“PCM-ROKS for the Description of Charge-Transfer States in Solution: Singlet-Triplet Gaps with Chemical Accuracy from Open-Shell Self-Consistent Reaction-Field Calculations”

Mewes, Hansen, Grimme, Angewandte, 2021
“Comment on ‘The Nature of Chalcogen‐Bonding‐Type Tellurium–Nitrogen Interactions’: Fixing the Description of Finite-Temperature Effects Restores the Agreement Between Experiment and Theory”
(Open Access)

Mewes, Schwerdtfeger, Angewandte, 2021
Exclusively Relativistic: Periodic Trends in the Melting and Boiling Points of Group 12
(Open Access, auch auf Deutsch)

Grimme, Hansen, Ehlert, Mewes, JCP, 2021
r²SCAN-3c: A "Swiss Army Knife" Composite Electronic-Structure Method 

Mewes, Smits, PCCP, 2020
Accurate Elemental Boiling Points From First Principles

Scholz, Massoth, Bursch, Mewes, Hetzke, Wolf, Bolte, Lerner, Grimme, Wagner, JACS, 2020:

BNB-Doped Phenalenyls: Modular Synthesis, Optoelectronic Properties, and One-Electron Reduction

Smits, Mewes, Jerabek, Schwerdtfeger, Angewandte, 2020:

Oganesson: A Noble-Gas Element that is Neither Noble Nor a Gas
(Open Access)

Caldeweyher, Mewes, Ehlert, Grimme, PCCP, 2020:
Extension and evaluation of the D4 London-dispersion correction for periodic solids
(HOT Article)

Mewes, Smits, Kresse, Schwerdtfeger, Angewandte, 2019:
Copernicium: A Relativistic Noble Liquid
(Open Access)

Mewes, Smits, Jerabek, Schwerdtfeger, Angewandte, 2019:
Oganesson is a Semiconductor: On the Relativistic Band-Gap Narrowing in the Heaviest Noble-Gas Solids
(Hot Paper, Open Access, auf Deutsch) 

Trombach, Ehlert, Grimme, Schwerdtfeger, Mewes, PCCP, 2019:
Exploring the chemical nature of super-heavy main-group elements by means of efficient plane-wave density-functional theory
(HOT Article, Frontcover)

Mewes, PCCP, 2018: 
Modeling TADF in organic emitters requires careful consideration of the environment and going beyond the Franck–Condon approximation

(HOT Article) 

Professional: 

Jan 2021 – current

Scientific Consultant, Lanthanoid-based OLEDs
beeOLED GmbH, Dresden

Jun 2019 – current

Postdoc/Senior Researcher (one-year returning Scholarship, AvH) 
with Prof. Stefan Grimme,
Mulliken-Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Bonn

Sep 2016 – May 2019 

Feodor-Lynen Postdoc (Scholarship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation)
with Prof. Peter Schwerdtfeger,
New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study (NZIAS), Auckland

Mar 2015 – Aug 2016 

Postdoc (Scholarship of HGS Mathcomp)
with Prof. Andreas Dreuw
Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg

Education:

Oct 2010 – Feb 2015
Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry
with Prof. Andreas Dreuw,
Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg,
Fellow of the HGS MathComp
Thesis: „Development and Application of Methods for the Description of Photochemical Processes in Condensed Phase“.

Oct 2008 – Sep 2010
Master of Science in Chemistry,
with Prof. Andreas Dreuw,
Goethe-University, Frankfurt
Thesis: „The Mechanism of Photodecarboxylation of Nitrophenylacetate and the Implications for Ortho-Nitrobenzyl Caged Compounds“.

Oct 2005 – Sep 2008
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry,
with Prof. Andreas Dreuw,
Goethe-University, Frankfurt 

Thesis (German): „Energietransfer in Bakteriellen Lichtsammelkomplexen“.