Former Group Members
Péter Szabó
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2019-2022
Topic: Fundamental Apects of Molecular Forces
Current position: KU Leuven
Martin Stöhr
Position: Ph.D. Student, Post-Doc
Years: 2016-2021
Topic: Long-Range Interactions for Biomolecular Systems
Current position: Post-Doc, Stanford
Anirban Mondal
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2021
Topic: Machine Learning in Condensed Phase
Current position: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
Swastika Banerjee
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2021-2022
Topic: Role of Non-Local Many-Body Dispersion Interactions on Materials' Properties
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorke
Ali Asghar Hakami Zanjani
Position: Ph.D. Student
Years: 2015-2019
Topic: Thermodynamics and Aggregation Kinetics of Lysozyme-Derived Peptides
Current position: Post-Doc, University of Southern Denmark
Katerine Saleme Ruiz
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2017-2019
Topic: Many-Body Dispersion Interactions in Atomic Chains
Current position: Research Facilitator, University of Luxembourg
Somayeh Khazaei
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2018-2020
Topic: Many-Body Interactions in Solid States
Farnaz Heidar-Zadeh
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2017-2019
Topic: Designing new machine learning methods for chemical properties
Current Position: Associate Professor, McMaster University
Dennis Barton
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2017-2019
Topic: Assessment of precision and reproducibility of vdW dispersion methods in electronic structure calculations
Yasmine Al-Hamdani
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2017-2019
Topic: Quantum chemical benchmarking interaction energies through Quantum Monte Carlo
Current Position: Post-Doc at University of Zurich
Johannes Hoja
Position: PhD Student
Years: 2014-2018
Topic: Crystal Structure Predictions from First-Principle Calculations
Current Position: Tenure Track, University of Graz (Austria)
Mainak Sadhukhan
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2016-2018
Topic: van der Waals interactions beyond dipole approxmations
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Jan Hermann
Position: PhD Student
Years: 2013-2017
Topic: Many Body Methods
Current Position: Senior researcher, Microsoft Research Center, Berlin
Guo-Xu Zhang
Position: PhD Student
Years: 2010-2014
Topic: van der Waals in solids
Current Position: Associate Professor at HIT (Harbin Institue of Technology China)
Javier Camarillo-Cisneros
Position: PhD Visitor
Years: 2011-2014
Topic: Adsorption on stepped surfaces
Current Position: Researcher at Cinvestav, Chihuahua (Mexico)
Xiaofei Liu
Position: PhD Visitor
Years: 2016-2018
Topic: Metal-organic networks
Current Position: Associate Professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Victor Ruiz
Position: PhD Student
Years: 2011-2016
Topic: van der Waals in Interfaces
Current Position: Research staff member at Helmholtz, Berlin
Vivekanand Gobre
Position: PhD Student
Years: 2011-2016
Topic: Electronic Structure Methods
Current Position: Assistant Professor in Pune, India
Nicola Ferri
Position: PhD Student
Years: 2011-2016
Topic: van der Waals and electronic properties
Current Position: IT in Milan, Italy
Wei Liu
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2010-2014
Topic: Catalysis, interfaces
Current Position: Full Professor in Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Wang Gao
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2013-2015
Topic: Defects, friction
Current Position: Professor at Jilin University, China
Alberto Ambrosetti
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2012-2014
Topic: Many-body methods
Current Position: Professor at University of Padova, Italy
Katja Hansen
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2012-2013
Topic: Machine learning
Current Position: Manager in 3M, Germany
Anthony Reilly
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2012-2013
Topic: Molecular crystals
Current Position: Professor at City University Dublin
Mausumi Chattopadhyaya
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2014-2017
Topic: Wetting
Current Position: Assistant Professor in Calcutta, India
Fairoja Cheenicode-Kabeer
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2015-2017
Topic: Catalysis
Current Position:Post-Doc in Sweden
Gionni Marchetti
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2014-2016
Topic: Machine learning
Current Position: Post-Doc in Riga
Limin Zheng
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2015-2016
Topic: Nuclear quantum effects
Current Position: Visiting Professor
Andrii Kleschonok
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2016-2018
Current Position: Data Scientist at VW Labs, Germany
Majid Mortazvi
Position: Post-Doc
Years: 2016-2018
Current Position: Data Scientist at Siemens, Germany