Rainer Hoft

Rainer Hoft
Rainer Hoft completed his Bachelor of Science in 2001 and Honours in physics in 2002, both at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. In 2004 he started his PhD with the Institute.

His project involves ab-initio computer simulations of the electronic and geometric structure of organic molecules adsorbed on gold surfaces as well as ab-initio and empirical methods to model electron tunneling across the molecules.