ABOUT ME
I am both a physicist and computational material scientist and have extensive working experience in the fields of physics, chemistry, computational materials theory, and computer science. I’m transferring physics and chemistry out of equations to computer simulations by developing computational tools and useful atomic-scale computer simulations, thus, tackling challenges of interdisciplinary materials research. For this, I use a variety of techniques chosen to suit the problem at hand, ranging from first-principles density functional theory to empirical reactive and non-reactive force fields, and multiscale modeling.
I’m also a force field developer and especially have an intensive focus on the ReaxFF reactive force field development to design new advanced materials with superior properties (from 0D (e.g. nanodots) to 3D systems) by establishing a synergistic interaction among theory, computation, and experiment – being a computational tool developer enhances my flexibility to accomplish any project.