This 2021 Max Planck-Humboldt Medal will be awarded to Anastassia Alexandrova from the University of California, Los Angeles. Among other things, the chemist has developed methods that simulate how a catalyst behaves during a chemical reaction, which structures mediate between the reaction partners in detail, and how the reaction conditions, such as temperature, pressure and concentration of the starting materials, influence the states of the catalyst and this interaction.
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