text: Martin A. Suhm (born 1962), is a German chemist and spectroscopist; he completed a Ph.D. thesis on the far infrared spectroscopy at ETH Zürich (group of Martin Quack) in 1990; he is a professor at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the University of Göttingen since 1997 who is active in the field of intermolecular interactions studies; he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2012.