Todorova, M.; Surendralal, S.: Corrosion at the Quantum Level. Coffee with Max Planck, virtual seminar organized by the MPIE, Düsseldorf, Germany (2021)
Todorova, M.; Yoo, S.-H.; Surendralal, S.; Neugebauer, J.: Insights into the stability and reactivity of solid/liquid interfaces from ab initio calculations. 71st Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry "Electrochemistry towards Excellence", virtual, Belgrade, Serbia (2020)
Todorova, M.; Yoo, S.-H.; Surendralal, S.; Neugebauer, J.: Predicting atomic structure and chemical reactions at solid-liquid interfaces by first principles. Operando surface science – Atomistic insights into electrified solid/liquid interfaces (708. WE-Heraeus-Seminar), Physikzentrum, Bad Honnef, Germany (2019)
Neugebauer, J.; Surendralal, S.; Todorova, M.: First-principles appraoch to model electrochemical reactions at solid-liquid interfaces. ACS 2019 Fall Meeting & Exhibition, San Diego, CA, USA (2019)
Todorova, M.; Surendralal, S.; Neugebauer, J.: Degradation processes at surfaces and interfaces. ISAM4: The fourth International Symposium on Atomistic and Multiscale Modeling of Mechanics and Multiphysics, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany (2019)
Todorova, M.; Surendralal, S.; Neugebauer, J.: Building an ab-initio potentiostat in a standard DFT code with periodic boundary conditions. ELRC2019 - IPAM reuniuon workshop, Lake Arrowhead, CA, USA (2019)
Todorova, M.; Yoo, S.-H.; Surendralal, S.; Neugebauer, J.: A fully ab initio approach to modelling electrochemical solid/liquid interfaces. Chemiekolloquium der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Linz, Austria (2019)
Todorova, M.; Surendralal, S.; Neugebauer, J.: First-principles approach to model electrochemical reactions at the solid-liquid interface. Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG 2019), Regensburg, Germany (2019)
Neugebauer, J.; Todorova, M.; Grabowski, B.; Hickel, T.: Modelling structural materials in realistic environments by ab initio thermodynamics. Hume-Rothery Award Symposium, TMS2019 Annual Meeting and Exhibition, San Antonio, TX, USA (2019)
Neugebauer, J.; Surendralal, S.; Todorova, M.: Extending First-Principles Calculations to Model Electrochemical Reactions at the Solid-Liquid Interface. Towards Reality in Nanoscale Materials X, Levi, Finnland (2019)
Todorova, M.; Yoo, S.-H.; Surendralal, S.; Neugebauer, J.: Modelling electrochemical solid/liquid interfaces by first principles calculations. 19th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Material Science: Total Energy and Force Methods, ICTP, Trieste, Italy (2019)
Todorova, M.: From semiconductor defect chemistry to electrochemistry: Challenges and insights. AMaSiS 2018 Workshop, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, Germany (2018)
Todorova, M.: Stability and reactivity of solid/liquid interfaces from ab initio calculations. International Workshop on Computational Electrochemistry, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland (2018)
Todorova, M.: Insights into electrochemical problems from the perspective of semiconductor defect chemistry. International Workshop on Computational Electrochemistry, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland (2018)
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