His main research targets are theoretical physics and physical chemistry of especially biological and synthetic macromolecular materials, the development and application of (multiscale) computer simulation methods, as well as structure process property relations, morphology and dynamics of polymers, polyelectrolytes, gels, membranes, liquid crystals and peptides in bulk and under geometrical constraints and polymers for electronic applications. As of June 2015 he authored more than 260 scientific publications (ResearcherID: G-5652-2011). His most-cited paper Dynamics of entangled linear polymer melts: A molecular‐dynamics simulation,[2] co-authored with Gary S. Grest, introduces a polymer model later to be knows as the Kremer-Grest Model.
Kremer is an elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2012),[3] a fellow of the American Physical Society (2006)[1] and Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota (1991).[1] He received the Walter Schottky Prize of the German Physical Society (1992),[1] the American Physical Society Polymer Physics Prize (2011) and an ERC-Advanced Grant (2014).
^Kremer, Kurt; Grest, Gary S. (15 April 1990). "Dynamics of entangled linear polymer melts: A molecular‐dynamics simulation". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 92 (8). AIP Publishing: 5057–5086. Bibcode:1990JChPh..92.5057K. doi:10.1063/1.458541. ISSN0021-9606.
^"Mitglieder". Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina (in German). 25 September 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
External links
"Kremer, Kurt". Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. 21 October 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
"Director". Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. 9 November 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2022.