Michael Buehl

Prof. Michael Buehl is a Professor of Computational Chemistry at the University of St. Andrews' School of Chemistry. He leads the Chair of Computational Chemistry, focusing on applying quantum chemistry methods to transition-metal systems, catalysis, and NMR spectroscopy. His research integrates density functional theory (DFT), QM/MM simulations, and molecular dynamics to study biochemical systems and material properties.

Education: PhD (1992) from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, postdoc at University of Georgia (1992-93), and Habilitation (1998) from University of Zürich. Held positions at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (1999-2007) before joining St. Andrews in 2008.

Research interests include transition-metal NMR, catalytic mechanisms, and computational modeling of chemical systems. Active in PhD supervision and teaching computational chemistry, physical chemistry, and symmetry analysis.