Homepage von Dr. rer. nat. Dipl.-Chem. Klaus D. May
(MayKlausD@gmail.com)
My 'medication' against MS without monoclonal antibodies against progressive MS. I have been suffering from multiple sclerosis, the most common neurological disease in Germany, since about 1996. Approximately 300,000 people suffer from MS in Germany alone. I finished my chemistry studies in 1996 with the diploma (grade "with distinction") and directly after that I got the first attack of the disease. I got the first attack of the disease, which was very severe and I was laid low for a year. Nevertheless, I still graduated with a doctorate in theoretical chemistry (grade "magna cum laude") with Prof. Dr. Ahlrichs. After another five years at KIT as scientific employee under Prof. Dr. Ahlrichs, I became severely disabled (80% degree of disability) and incapacitated for work (fully disabled). This was in 2008, in my 40th year of life. After almost 25 years I have accepted my fate and try to encourage my fellow sufferers with this page. Since 2014 I have discontinued the medication against multiple scerosis, because a chronic psysical disease was diaognosed. At first glance, this medication appears to be very stressful, but it also has several advantages. First of all, it has no harmful side side effects and it is responsible for the fact that even after almost 25 years since the onset of MS I can jog at least 5 km. Another advantage is that instead of going to work, I go to my gym every other day, see familiar people and talk to them, thus have my social contacts.
Here I present my career and the references of the different steps in my career.
My life is divided into two sections. The first one played in Baumholder, a small village near Idar-Oberstein in Rheinland-Pfalz. The special feature of Baumholder is the balance of german and american people. In Baumholder lived 1980 about 25.000 american people almost soldiers. The german ones counted five thousand people. There was and is a great american infrastructure. I finished my highschool successfully in Idar-Oberstein, when I was 18 years old.
Then the second part in Karlsruhe started. I left Baumholder and went to Karlsruhe to start a training for a software developper at the scientific research center of Karlsruhe(KfK). I finished this training succesfully and began a job as a software developper in the numerical physics group where Prof. Schmidt was the leader. I stayed there almost two years and went to the nowadays called KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) to study chemistry. By the way the KfK is a part of the KIT, too. The first 4 semesters I kept on doing the work at the KfK beside my study. After Prof. Schmidt had a deadly accident, I started at the KIT a work with Prof. Krogmann till the end of my chemistry study. In this work I developped a new interface in TURBO PASCAL to simulate a titration. Second project was the creation of a data base for the inorganic faculty in PARADOX. This data base is still in use. I finished my chemistry study with the grade "mit Auszeichnung".
"Multiple sclerosis" came in my life. Fortunately the doctors didn't recognize the first symptoms of MS years ago. So I could finished my study with out knowing anything about MS. But after the study MS came back seriously and I was one year ill. Because of my good grades Prof. Ahlrichs offered me a phd position at his group, after my first attempt at the Forschungszentrum in the group of Prof. Dinjus (Technical Chemistry). During my phd I developed the force field program called universal force field (UFF). This module is a part of the famous TURBOMOLE program, which is used all over the world. UFF is used for preoptimizing the spatial structure of a big molecule. In the second step you optimize this structure on a higher level, commonly density functional theory. This optimization at high level will converges much faster if you preoptimizes the structure at force field level. Furthermore one gets the hessian matric, which you can use for start hessian in the ab initio optimization and accelerate it. During my dissertation, which was between 1998 till february 2002, I had almost two MS boosts the year. That meant, that I was about four weeks ill. However I was lucky, because the symptoms of the MS boost went back. I finished my phd with magna cum laude.
After 2002 I worked till 2008 as collaborator of Prof. Ahlrichs. First project was the extension of the TURBOMOLE program module AOFORCE about the RI (Resolution of Identity) approach. The calculation of the vibrations frequencies of molecules get around 10-100 faster than the conventional calculation without the RI aopproach. Then I developed a preproccesor which called TMOLE. TMOLE is written in Perl (2000 lines Perl code) and should simplify the use of TURBOMOLE. Then I implemented the "Natural population analysis", which Weinhold suggests 1985. I published with Prof. Ahlrichs a article in "High Performance Chemistry" about the calculation of properties of big molecules. "Big" means the molecules contains 100 and more atoms. The last project was the TURBOMOLE-Basisset-Library (TBL). This is a web interface consisting of dynamical HTML pages and CGI programs - Perl programs. TBL makes the KARLSRUHE BASISSETS accessible via WWW. The last reference came from Prof. Ahlrichs.
First I worked further at the TURBOMOLE-Basisset-Library for about two years. Then I gave lessons in chemistry, mathematics and physics for different pupils in Baden-Baden. After this I studied philosophy for two semesters by Prof. Dr. Dr. Gutmann at the KIT.
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