Herma Cuppen is Professor Computational Chemistry at the Institute of Molecules and Materials at the Radboud University and professor by special appointment at the University of Amsterdam.

Areas of expertise include:
- Atomistic simulations of interstellar ices to study their structural and dynamic properties
- Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of the growth and evolution of interstellar ices at laboratory and interstellar timescales
- Dissipation of vibrational energy and vibrational spectroscopy