Main Focus
- Machine-Learning interatomic potentials
- Many-body theories, Greens functions, Density functional theory, Theory of magnetism
- First-principles calculations of ground-state and finite-temperature properties, phase stabilities, local and extended defects (e.g., stacking fault energies)
- Magnetism, (Quantum) Monte Carlo methods, Heisenberg models, Magnons, Magnon-phonon interactions, magnetic entropies
- Steels, high entropy alloys and materials for magnetic applications
Curriculum Vitae
- 10/2025 - Present Research Group Leader, ICAMS, Ruhr-University Bochum
- 05/2017 - Present Project Group Leader 'Complex Concentrated Alloys' (MPI-SusMat)
- 01/2024 - 09/2025 Research Scientist, University of Stuttgart
- 02/2023 - 12/2023 Staff Scientist, BAM, Berlin
- 01/2018 - 12/2022 Group Leader & Lecturer, TU Delft, The Netherlands
- 05/2015 - 04/2017 DFG Fellowship, TU Delft, The Netherlands
- 05/2011 - 04/2015 Postdoc at MPIE Düsseldorf
- 09/2012 - 12/2012 Visiting researcher at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
- 05/2007 - 05/2011 PhD-Student at MPIE Düsseldorf
- 04/2004 - 03/2007 Study of physics at HU Berlin
- 10/2001 - 03/2004 Study of physics at RWTH Aachen