Jörg-Rüdiger Hill, scientific career

Jörg-Rüdiger Hill graduated 1989 from Humboldt University in Berlin with a Diploma in chemistry. He did his doctoral work in the quantum chemistry group of Prof. Joachim Sauer at the Central Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and of the Max-Planck-Society and received his doctor rerum naturalium from Humboldt University in 1992. His research included the application of ab initio methods to zeolite models and the development of force fields for zeolites. He also developed visualization software for the results of quantum chemical calculations.

He joined Biosym Technologies (today Biovia of Dassault Systèmes) in San Diego, California, in 1993 as a Research Associate where he worked on force field development for lipids, on the evaluation of density functional methods, and on simulations of zeolites. In 1996 he joined Molecular Simulation's (today Biovia of Dassault Systèmes) Contract Research team in materials science as a Research Scientist. In 1999 he moved to the Munich office of Molecular Simulations as a Senior Scientist. In spring 2000 he became R & D manager heading the development of a data management system for combinatorial materials science, Materials Studio CombiMat, as part of an industrial collaboration with hte, Bosch, and Siemens partly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This software system has been released commercially in the fourth quarter of 2003.

In 2004 he started Scienomics, a company which produces molecular modeling software (the Materials and Processes Simulations (MAPS) platform) and offers contract research for the chemical, pharmaceutical, and materials industries. There he served as Director R & D for Scienomics SARL and as Managing Director for Scienomics GmbH heading the development of the MAPS platform.

In 2019 he moved to Materials Design Inc., where he is involved in the development of the MedeA software particularly with user interface design, mesoscale simulations and machine-learned potentials. His biography has been included in the 2007 Edition of Marquis' "Who's Who in the World".