Kurt Kremer (born 17 June 1956 in Kapellensüng (Lindlar)) is a German physicist.
Kremer studied physics from 1974 to 1980 at the University of Cologne, where he also did his PhD in 1983 under supervision of Kurt Binder.
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.
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).