Martin Kaupp is Professor at the Institut fur Anorganische Chemie at Universitat Wurzburg. He was born in Stuttgart and studied chemistry in Stuttgart and Cincinnati, before carrying out his PhD thesis in Erlangen. After postdoctoral work at Max-Planck-Institut fur Festkorperforschung in Stuttgart and at Universite de Montreal, Canada, he completed his habilitation in Theoretical Chemistry in Stuttgart, before moving to Wurzburg in November 1999. His wide research interests include development and applications of quantum chemical methods to calculate NMR and EPR parameters, density functional