Thomas Loerting

Thomas Loerting (born October 29, 1973) is an Austrian chemist and associate professor at the University of Innsbruck.

He successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Kinetics of water mediated proton transfer in the atmosphere" in 2000.

Thomas Loerting research includes more than 180 peer-reviewed international publications with more than 8000 citations, resulting in a h-index of 48 (as of October 2022).

One particularly notable finding was that LDA and HDA both exhibit glass-to-liquid transitions at ambient pressure,[5] which provides support for the LLCP scenario in water.

By employing the cryo-preparation and rapid quenching technique developed by Hage, Hallbrucker and Mayer,[11] coupled with FTIR-spectroscopy of the solid and the matrix isolated species, Loerting and his co-workers have pioneered formation and isomerisation of carbonic acid and its derivatives.