Fahmi Himo

Professor

Department of Chemistry
Arrhenius Laboratory
Stockholm University
S-106 91 Stockholm
Sweden

Tel: +46 8 - 161094
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Fahmi Himo was born in 1973. He did his undergraduate studies in physics at Stockholm University (1992-1995), where he also received his Ph.D. degree in 2000 (with Leif Eriksson and Per Siegbahn). He then spent two years as a Wenner-Gren postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Research Institute (with Louis Noodleman) and three years back in Sweden as a Wenner-Gren Fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). 2005-2009 he was assistant professor at KTH before he moved to his current position as professor in quantum chemistry at Stockholm University.

 

Awards and Distinctions

  1. Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2025.
  2. Göran Gustafsson Award, 2011. Awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. “For his development and application of quantum mechanical techniques for elucidation of enzymatic and homogeneous catalysis of chemical reactions".
  3. The Sven & Ebba-Christina Hagberg Prize, 2003. Awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. “For Outstanding Quantum Biochemical Studies of Enzyme Catalysis”.
  4. The Sigrid Arrhenius Award, 2000. Awarded by the Faculty of Science, Stockholm University, for outstanding thesis work.