Prof. Karsten Reuter is Director of the Theory Department of the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany. Karsten did his doctoral studies on theoretical surface physics in Erlangen, Madrid and Milwaukee. Following research experiences at the FHI in Berlin and the FOM Institute in Amsterdam, he headed an independent Max Planck Research Group. From 2009 to 2020 he was Chair for Theoretical Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

He held visiting professorships at Stanford (2014), MIT (2018), and Imperial College London (2019), and is a Distinguished Affiliated Professor at TUM as well as Honorary Professor at the Free University and Humboldt University in Berlin. He is an ELLIS fellow, and serves on multiple advisory and supervisory boards, including the Helmholtz Center Berlin and the German Physical Society.