Recent and Present Collaborations:

• Heterogeneous Catalysis:
  
  • Prof. Dr. Edvin Lundgren (U Lund, SE)
  • Prof. Dr. M.-Francoise Reyniers, Prof. Dr. Guy Marin (U Ghent, BE)
  • Prof. Dr. Irene M.N. Groot (U Leiden, NL)
  • Prof. Dr. Jens K. Nørskov (DTU, DK)
  • Prof. Dr. Matteo Maestri (Politecnico di Milano, I)
  • Prof. Dr. Johannes Lercher (TU München, D)
• (Photo-)Electrocatalysis:
  • Prof. Dr. Bettina V. Lotsch (MPI for Solid State Research, D)
  • Prof. Dr. Robert Schlögl (Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, D)
  • Prof. Dr. Christof Wöll (KIT, D)
  • Prof. Dr. Craig Plaisance (Louisiana State University, USA)
  • Prof. Dr. Ueli Heiz (TU München, D)
  • Prof. Dr. Frank Neese (MPI for Coal Research, D)
• Solid-State Batteries:
  • Dr. Johannes Voss, Prof. Dr. Alan Luntz (Stanford, USA)
  • Prof. Dr. Rüdiger-A. Eichel (FZ Jülich, D)
• Molecular Crystals and Organic Solar Cells
  • Prof. Dr. Jochen Blumberger (University College London)
  • Prof. Dr. Peter Müller-Buschbaum (TU München, D)
  • Prof. Dr. Heiko Briesen (TU München, D)
  • Prof. Dr. Noa Marom (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Data Sciences and Machine Learning
  • Prof. Dr. Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, D)
  • Prof. Dr. Patrick Rinke (Aalto University, FIN)
  • Prof. Dr. Gabor Csanyi (Cambridge University, UK)
• Non-adiabatic effects in dissociative adsorption at surfaces
  • Prof. Dr. Axel Gross (University of Ulm, D)
  • Dr. Maite Alducin, Dr. Iñaki Juaristi (San Sebastian, E)
  • Prof. Dr. Suljo Linic (U Michigan, USA)
• Self-assembled monolayers and charge transport at metal substrates
  • Dr. Paula Abufager, Prof. Dr. Fabio Busnengo (Institute for Physics Rosario, RA)
  • Prof. Dr. Martin Weinelt (FU Berlin, D)
  • Prof. Dr. Peter Feulner (TU München, D)
  • Prof. Dr. Reinhard Kienberger (TU München, D)
• Surface adsorbed functional molecules
  
  • Prof. Dr. Petra Tegeder (FU Berlin, D)
  • Prof. Dr. Martin Wolf (Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, D)
  • Dr. Sergey Soubatch, Prof. Dr. Stefan Tautz (Forschungszentrum Jülich, D)
  • PD Dr. Markus Lackinger (TU München, D)
  • Prof. Dr. Richard Berndt (U Kiel, D)
  • Prof. Dr. Johannes V. Barth (TU München, D)
  • Prof. Dr. Harald Brune (EPF Lausanne, CH)
  • Prof. Dr. Alexandre Tkatchenko (University of Luxembourg, D)
  • Prof. Dr. Reinhard Maurer (Warwick University, UK)
• Framework materials
  
  • Prof. Dr. Dirk Volkmer (Universität Augsburg, D)
  • Prof. Dr. Roland A. Fischer (TU München, D)
• Code development (Castep, FHI-aims, kmos)
  • Prof. Dr. Volker Blum (Duke University, USA)
  • Prof. Dr. Matt Probert (University of York, GB)
  • Dr. Andrew Longsdail, Dr. Alexey Sokol, Prof. Dr. Richard Catlow (UC London, GB)
  • Dr. Sebastian Matera (FU Berlin, D)

 

Current Funding:

• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• DFG Research Grant Molecular and multiscale modelling of the dissolution of active pharmaceutical ingredients
• State of Bavaria Solar technologies go hybrid
• DFG Research Grant Theoretical investigation of spin-dependent transport from adsorbates to magnetic substrates
• TUM IAS Focus Group Chemical catalysis, photo-catalysis, and electro-catalysis
• BMBF Joint Project Eigenvalue solvers for petaflop applications: Algorithmic extensions and optimizations (ELPA-AEO)
• BMBF Kopernikus Project Power-to-X
• DFG Research Grant Theoretical investigation of photo-electro-catalysis beyond proton-coupled electron transfer
• DFG Research Grant DFTB-based global optimization approach to large scale interfacial systems
• H2020 FET Project Formation of two-­‐dimensional materials on liquid metal catalysts: An in situ investigation
• BMBF Joint Project Evaluation of advanced solid-state battery concepts with high security and power (EVABATT)
• International Graduate School for Science and Engineering (IGSSE) Towards a roadmap of chemical space – Predicting catalysis with electronic structure theory and data science (CatGraph)
• DFG Research Grant Facilitating the rational design of active sites for the oxygen evolution reaction on 3d transition metal oxide catalysts
• DFG Priority Program SPP 2080 Catalysts and reactors under dynamic operation conditions for energy storage and conversion
• DFG Cluster of Excellence EXC 2089 e-conversion
• DFG-NSFC Research Grant Multi-scale modeling of electrochemical interfaces: New methods and applications to RuO₂ surfaces
• DFG D-A-CH Research Grant Transition metal carbides for electrochemical CO₂ reduction
• DFG Priority Program SPP 2196 Perovskite semiconductors: From fundamental properties to devices

 

Commissioning (Auftragsvergabe)