Dr. Norah Hoffmann joins the NYU Chemistry research faculty in January 2024 as Assistant Professor in the Simons Center for Computational Physical Chemistry. Norah earned her doctoral degree at the Max Planck Institute Hamburg under the direction of Prof. Angel Rubio and conducted her postdoctoral research at Columbia University in the group of Prof. Timothy Berkelbach. Research in the Hoffmann Group at NYU will be focused on all things light-matter interaction, from classical to quantum. By linking material science and quantum optics it aims to unlock the potential of controlled light-matter interaction to pave ways for theory and simulations of new modes of catalysis, quantum materials, and quantum information devices.
NYU Chemistry Welcomes New Faculty Member Norah Hoffmann

EDUCATION
B.S. in Physics, Technical University Berlin, Germany
M.S. in Physics, Technical University Berlin & Fritz Haber Institute Berlin, Germany
Ph.D. in Physics, Max Planck Institute Hamburg, Germany
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York
AREAS OF RESEARCH/INTEREST
Theoretical and Computational Physical Chemistry and Physics. Material Science, Quantum Optics, Polaritonics, Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics and Quantum Information Science. Mixed quantum-classical dynamics methods, ab-initio electronic structure modeling and model development. Chemistry in electric fields, new modes of catalysis, quantum materials and quantum information devices.
FELLOWSHIPS/HONORS
International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) Fellowship
American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, Lightning Talk Prize
Postdoctoral Fellowship of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
DFG Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Fellowship (awarded)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Linear free energy relationships in electrostatic catalysis
Norah M Hoffmann, Xiao Wang, Timothy C Berkelbach
ACS Catalysis 12 (14), 8237-8241 (2022)
Interfacial electric fields catalyze Ullmann coupling reactions on gold surfaces
Ilana B Stone, Rachel L Starr, Norah Hoffmann, Xiao Wang, Austin M Evans, Colin Nuckolls, Tristan H Lambert, Michael L Steigerwald, Timothy C Berkelbach, Xavier Roy, Latha Venkataraman
Chemical Science 13 (36), 10798-10805 (2022)
Analysis of the classical trajectory treatment of photon dynamics for polaritonic phenomena
Bart Rosenzweig, Norah M Hoffmann, Lionel Lacombe, Neepa T Maitra
The Journal of Chemical Physics 156 (5) (2022)
Case studies of the time-dependent potential energy surface for dynamics in cavities
Phillip Martinez, Bart Rosenzweig, Norah M Hoffmann, Lionel Lacombe, Neepa T Maitra
The Journal of Chemical Physics 154 (1) (2021)
Effect of many modes on self-polarization and photochemical suppression in cavities
Norah M Hoffmann, Lionel Lacombe, Angel Rubio, Neepa T Maitra
The Journal of Chemical Physics 153 (10) (2020)
Benchmarking semiclassical and perturbative methods for real-time simulations of cavity-bound emission and interference
Norah M Hoffmann, Christian Schäfer, Niko Säkkinen, Angel Rubio, Heiko Appel, Aaron Kelly
The Journal of Chemical Physics 151 (24) (2019)
Exact potential energy surface for molecules in cavities
Lionel Lacombe, Norah M Hoffmann, Neepa T Maitra
Physical Review Letters 123 (8), 083201 (2019)
Capturing vacuum fluctuations and photon correlations in cavity quantum electrodynamics with multitrajectory Ehrenfest dynamics
Norah M Hoffmann, Christian Schäfer, Angel Rubio, Aaron Kelly, Heiko Appel
Physical Review A 99 (6), 063819 (2019)
Light-matter interactions via the exact factorization approach
Norah M Hoffmann, Heiko Appel, Angel Rubio, Neepa T Maitra
The European Physical Journal B 91, 1-14 (2018)