Resume
Background
- Director of the Department of Computational Materials Design at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials
- Focuses on developing and applying multi-scale computational methods bridging quantum mechanics and real-world materials discovery
- Addresses sustainability challenges through computational approaches, including CO₂-free material synthesis, extending material lifetimes, improving energy efficiency, and designing recyclable alloys
- Integrates quantum mechanical simulations with machine learning, thermodynamics, statistical physics, and continuum mechanics for high-accuracy material property prediction
- Research spans structural materials, optoelectronics & photovoltaics, electrochemistry, and advanced functional materials
- Collaborates closely with experimentalists to translate theoretical insights into practical innovations