FHI
The NOMAD Laboratory

Novel Materials Discovery at the FHI Molecular Physics Department
of the Max Planck Society

Alumni

113 of our previous group members reached the position of university professor or an alike level at research institutes or industry.
If your name is missing in this list, or if you spot a mistake, please let us know at office.nomad@fhi.mpg.de
# Name Job Title Institution
1 Alippi, Paola Researcher Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy
2 Behler, Jörg Professor Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
3 Bhattacharya, Amrita Professor Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
4 Bhattacharya, Saswata Professor Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, India
5 Blum, Volker Professor Duke University, Durham, USA
6 Bockstedte, Michel Professor Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
7 Boley, Mario Senior Lecturer Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
8 Caldas, Marilia Junqueira Professor University of São Paulo, Brazil
9 Camarillo-Cisneros, Javier Professor Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico
10 Carbogno, Christian Group Leader at FHI Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
11 Carlsson, Johan M. Senior Field Application Scientist and 
Science Council Fellow at BIOVIA		 Dassault Systemes BIOVIA GmbH 
12 Caruso, Fabio Professor Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
13 Cho, Jun-Hyung Professor Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
14 Da Silva, Juarez L. F. Professor Institute of Chemistry of São Carlos, University of São Paulo, Brazil
15 De Sarkar, Abir Professor and 
Dean of INST		 Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Punjab, India
16 Delin, Anna Professor KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
17 Deng, Huiqiu Professor Hunan University, Changsha, China
18 Fazzio, Adalberto Professor Ilum School of Science, CNPEM, Campinas, Brazil
19 Fichthorn, Kristen Professor PennState College of Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
20 Finnis, Mike Professor Imperial College London, UK
21 Fiorentini, Vincenzo Professor University of Cagliari, Monserrato, Italy
22 Franco, Ignacio Professor University of Rochester, USA
23 Freysoldt, Christoph Group Leader at Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Düsseldorf, Germany
24 Friák, Martin Group Leader at IPM Institute of Physics of Materials, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
25 Ganduglia-Pirovano, Veronica Group Leader at CSIC  Instituto de Catalisis y Petroleoquimica, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
26 Ghiringhelli, Luca Professor Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
27 Goldsmith, Bryan R. Professor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
28 Gonze, Xavier Professor Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
29 Groß, Axel Professor,
Institutsdirektor		 Universität Ulm, Institut für Theoretische Chemie, Germany
30 Guo, Wei Professor Beijing Institute of Technology, China
31 Hamad, Bothina Professor University of Arkansas, USA
32 Hammer, Bjoerk Professor Aarhus University, Denmark
33 Hammerschmidt, Thomas Group Leader at ICAMS Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation (ICAMS), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
34 Han, Zhongkang Professor  Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
35 Hanke, Felix Senior Scientific Software Developer
Fellow of the BIOVIA Science Council at Dassault Systèmes		 Biovia R&D, Dassault Systems UK Limited, UK
36 Hashemifar, Seyed Javad Professor Isfahan University of Technology, Iran
37 Havu, Ville Senior University Lecturer Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
38 Hermann, Jan Principal Research Manager Microsoft Research AI4Science 
39 Hofmann, Oliver Group Leader at Institute of Solid State Physics TU Graz, Austria
40 Hu, Qing-Miao Professor Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Liaoning, China
41 Ireta Moreno, Joel Professor Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico
42 Jacob, Timo Professor,
Institutsleiter		 Universität Ulm, Institut für Elektrochemie, Germany
43 Jiang, Hong Professor Peking University, Beijing, China
45 Joas, Christian Director, Niels Bohr Archive University of Copenhagen, Denmark
45 Kitchin, John Professor Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
46 Kratzer, Peter Professor Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
47 Lee, Sung-Hoon Professor Kyung Hee University, South Korea
48 Levchenko, Sergey Professor Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Moscow, Russia
49 Li , Jia Professor Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China
50 Li, Bo Professor University of Chicago, Computer Science Department, USA
51 Li, Wei-Xue Executive Dean of Department of Chemical Physics and
Chair Professor (USTC)		 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China
52 Li, Xin-Zheng Professor Peking University, Beijing, China
53 Linic, Suljo Professor and
Director, Energy Systems Engineering		 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
54 Liu, Li-Min Professor Beihang University, Beijing, China
55 Liu, Wei Professor Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
56 Máca, František  Senior Scientist Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
57 Maestri, Matteo Professor
PI of ERC Research Group SHAPE		 Politecnico di Milano, Italy
58 Matera, Sebastian Group Leader at FHI Fitz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
59 Meyer, Jörg Professor Leiden University, Leiden, Netherland
60 Michaelides, Angelos Professor University of Cambridge, UK
61 Miyazaki, Ray Professor Hokkaido University, Institute of Catalysis, Hokkaido, Japan
62 Narasimhan, Shobhana Professor Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India
63 Neugebauer, Jörg Director and Professor  Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany
Professor Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
64 Ouyang, Runhai Professor Shanghai University, China
65 Pan, Ding Professor Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
66 Pankratov, Oleg A.  Professor Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
67 Penev, Evgeni Professor Rice University, Houston, USA
68 Peng, Yang Professor California State University Northridge, Northridge, USA
69 Pehlke, Eckhard Professor Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
70 Pentcheva, Rossitza Professor Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
71 Piccinin, Simone Senior Staff Scientist Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR-IOM, Trieste, Italy
72 Pilania, Ghanshyam  Senior Engineer General Electrics (GE), Aerospace Research, Niskayuna, USA
73 Piquini, Paulo Professor Federal University of Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
74 Polatoglu, Chariton Professor Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
75 Purcell, Thomas Professor The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
76 Qteish, Abdallah Professor Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan
77 Ratsch, Christian Professor,
IPAM Deputy Director		 IPAM, University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, USA
78 Reilly, Anthony Academic Staff - Computational Chemistry Dublin City University, Ireland
79 Ren, Xinguo Distinguished Researcher Institute of Physics, Beijing, China
80 Reuter, Karsten Director and Professor Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
81 Rinke, Patrick Professor Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
82 Rossi, Mariana Lise Meitner Research Group Leader Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie, Hamburg, Germany
83 Rubio, Angel Director and Professor Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie, Hamburg, Germany
84 Ruggerone, Paolo Professor University of Cagliari, Monserrato, Italy
85 Schindlmayr, Arno Professor Universität Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany
86 Seitsonen, Ari Ingénieur de recherche CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
87 Shang, Honghui Professor University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
88 Shin, Jungho Head of Chemical Data-driven Research Center Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Daejoen, Korea
89 Singh, Abhishek Professor Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
90 Soon, Aloysius Professor Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
91 Stampfl, Catherine Professor The University of Sydney, Australia
92 Sutton, Christopher Professor University of South Carolina, USA
93 Tkatchenko, Alexandre Professor University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
94 Todorova, Mira Group Leader at MPIE Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany
95 Gao, Wang Professor Jilin University, Changchun, China
96 Wang, Yang-Gang  Professor Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
97 Wei, Ching-Ming Professor Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences (IAMS), Academia Sinica, Taipeh, Taiwan
98 Wu, Hua Professor Fudan University, Shanghai, China
99 Xu, Yong Professor Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
100 Yang, Qimin Professor Northeastern University, Boston, USA
101 Yeo, Byungchul Professor Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea
102 Yu, Byung Deok Professor University of Seoul, Korea
103 Zhao, Xunhua Professor Southeast University, Nanjing, China
104 Zhang, Guoxu Professor Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
105 Zhang, Igor Ying Professor Fudan University, Shanghai, China
106 Zhang, Wei-Bing Professor Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, China
107 Zhang, Wenqing Professor Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
108 Zhang, Wenxing Professor Hanshan Normal University, Chaozhou, China
109 Zhang, Yongsheng Professor Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China
110 Zhou, Miao Professor Beihang University, Beijing, China
111 Zhu, Chune Professor Guangdong University of Technology, Guangdong, China
112 Ziletti, Angelo Principal Data Scientist Bayer, Leverkusen, Germany
113 Zywietz, Tosja  Chairman, Managing Director SMART Precision Tools & Manufacturing GmbH, Denzlingen, Germany


We also had several longer term visits by renowned colleagues, as for example:

Robero Car (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA)
Stefano Curtarolo (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA)
Randall M. Feenstra (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)
Joost Frenken (University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)
Eberhard K. U. Gross (The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel)
Walter Kohn (University of California Santa Barbara, California, USA)
Horia Metiu (University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA)
John P. Perdew (Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA)
Rampi Ramprasad (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
Angel Rubio (Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie, Hamburg, Germany)
Adrienn Ruzsinszky (Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA)
Gustavo E. Scuseria (Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA)
Annabella Selloni (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA)
Chris G. Van de Walle (University of California Santa Barbara, California, USA)
Enge Wang (Peking University, Beijing, China)
Weitao Yang (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA)

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