Group News Archive
2024
13.11.2024: Stefan has completed and defended his Ph.D. thesis and is now Dr. Seidl, many congratulations, Stefan!
12.11.2024: We welcome Victor Chen in the group, who will work on his M.Sc. thesis project with us.
31.10.2024: David publishes a perspective article on surface defects of halide perovskites in Advanced Materials together with David Cahen, Yevgeny Rakita and Antoine Kahn.
01.10.2024: We welcome Markus Amaseder back in our group. Supported by a prestigious fellowship by the Wübben foundation, he will work on his M.Sc. thesis with us.
19.09.2024: Around 20 experts discussed the intersections of optoelectronic and battery materials at TUM’s IAS in an international workshop. Here is our group picture.
18.09.2024: Together with our collaborators from Bratislava and TUM we proposed a new method to rapidly characterize Raman signatures of point defects in solid-state ion conductors in JACS.
29.07.2024: Nitride semiconductors are fascinating materials! Elise’s study in a collaboration with the Sharp group shows how one can tune their optoelectronic properties via cation disorder.
01.07.2024: Daniil Platonov and Luis Blank join us for the BSc projects – welcome to our team!
24.06.2024: Four professors from three TUM Schools found the Atomistic Modeling Center (AMC) as a sub-institute of the MDSI to establish interdisciplinary collaborations in atomistic modeling. Here’s the news item.
20.06.2024: Last week our group contributed to a great initiative – TUM’s Sustainability Day. Please see the recent news item at the MDSI website for more details.
12.06.2024: Xiangzhou has completed and defended his Ph.D. work and is now Dr. Zhu, many congratulations!
31.05.2024: We spent a few days in the Bavarian Alps for our group retreat, joined by a couple of llamas.
24.05.2024: Frederik Vonhoff is awarded a prestigious doctoral fellowship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. Many congratulations!
17.05.2024: A multi-team effort led by Sebastian on the role of lone pairs in the anharmonic dynamics of halide perovskites appears in Nature Communications.
09.04.2024: Takeru’s study on machine-learning molecular dynamics for ionic conductors is published in J. Mater. Chem. A
03.04.2024: We developed a Delta-ML method for predicting Raman spectra in collaboration with Tomáš Bučko. See Manuel’s paper that was just published in J. Phys. Chem. C
02.04.2024: Several students join our team: Chiara Spezzati will work on her M.Sc. project with us, and Sonja Buchner, Kaiwen Chen and Jara Stucken on their B.Sc. theses. Welcome to all!
01.04.2024: Martin’s work proposes a new finite-temperature tight-binding model for optoelectronic properties of semiconductors. See our recent article published in J. Chem. Phys.
30.03.2024: We quantified the influence on anharmonic lattice dynamics for optoelectronic properties of nitride semiconductors in Franziska’s recent article published in Advanced Energy Materials. See also the cover story.
20.01.2024: How accurate is ML-MD to describe the complex dynamics in various solid-state ion conductors? Our recent work, led by Takeru, investigates this question – see the arXiv preprint.
2023
12.12.2023: Max is now Dr. Schilcher (see here), many congratulations!
01.12.2023: We celebrated the end of an exciting year at our Xmas party!
28.11.2023: The group welcomes Görkem Tamer as a new M.Sc. student in our team working on ionic conductors.
10.11.2023: Sebastian’s work on double perovskites with the groups of Laura Herz and Thomas Bein is published in JPCL.
01.11.2023: Jonas Oldenstaedt joins our group as a Ph.D. student – great to have you with us in our team, Jonas!
01.10.2023: David has been appointed as a “Core Member” of the Munich Data Science Institute.
15.09.2023: We welcome Dr. Waldemar Kaiser! He joins us to lead a sub-group on the theory of solid-state ion conductors.
01.09.2023: Stefan and Xiangzhou’s paper with the Yaffe group about the anharmonic effect on the band gap appears as a Letter in Physical Review Materials.
23.08.2023: Anharmonicity and dynamic disorder are correlated and determine carrier transport in perovskites. Max’s paper from a great collaboration with David Reichman’s and Liang Tan’s group gets selected as “Editor’s Suggestion” in Physical Review Materials.
18.08.2023: We’ve recently had our group BBQ and a hike to Andechs with great Summer weather.
17.07.2023: Shaoming Zhang joins the team for his M.Sc. thesis project, welcome to the group Shaoming!
09.06.2023: Late paper from Berni with the Lupton group from Regensburg: preaggregation in single-molecule photocatalysis!
07.06.2023: This week, part of our group visited the lab of Omer Yaffe at the Weizmann Institute of Science. We’ve had such a great time!
01.06.2023: We warmly welcome Namita Krishnan, who will work on her M.Sc. thesis with us.
24.05.2023: David has been promoted to Associate Professor with a permanent W3 position (see here), many congratulations!
19.05.2023: We had a great time at our group retreat in Schliersee.
15.05.2023: Takeru Miyagawa joins us for his Ph.D. thesis. Welcome to the group, Takeru!
02.05.2023: The group would like to welcome a new M.Sc. student, Frederico Simões, as well as Simon Hackl who is joining us for his B.Sc. thesis.
27.03.2023: We warmly welcome Konstantin Gattinger, who is joining us for his B.Sc. thesis.
03.03.2023: Some of us attended a theoretical chemistry workshop in Austria, where we tasted the local cuisine during group dinner on the last evening.
03.02.2023: Late work of Christian and Shravan in collaboration with the Yaffe group, on static and dynamic disorder in FA-based perovskites, is published in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
16.01.2023: We welcome Frederik Vonhoff in the group! He will work on his Ph.D. thesis with us.
2022
14.12.2022: The group celebrated Christmas and the end of the year with an escape game and dinner.
01.12.2022: The group warmly welcomes Philip Schwinghammer, who is joining us to work on his MSc research project.
20.10.2022: Xiangzhou’s collaboration with various experimental and theoretical groups on excitons and phase transitions in 2D perovskites is published in ACS Photonics.
21.09.2022: David writes a Nature “News and Views” article on electrostriction.
19.09.2022: Together with Artem Bakulin, Tim Berkelbach and Omer Yaffe we organized an international meeting with great speakers at TUM-IAS.
07.09.2022: We are very happy that in-person conferences are happening again: part of our group attends the DPG in Regensburg.
03.08.2022: We were out for a group hike in the Bavarian Alps, see here for our peak shot.
02.08.2022: Non-adiabatic couplings in TDDFT with optimally-tuned functionals: Berni’s work is published as a JCP Communication.
27.07.2022: Sebastian’s work with collaborators from the Walter-Schottky Institute on lead-free chiral perovskites is published in JACS.
14.07.2022: David received the “Golden Chalk” by physics students for “Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics” as the best lecture of the B.Sc. program in 2021/22.
23.06.2022: The findings of Manuel’s collaboration with the Yaffe and Zeier groups on dynamics of sodium ion conductors get published in JPCL.
02.06.2022: Christian is now Dr. Gehrmann (see here), many congratulations!
23.05.2022: The group warmly welcomes Clara Scarpatetti, who is joining for her B.Sc. thesis.
21.04.2022: Xiangzhou’s work on disorder in halide perovskites has been published as an “Early-Career Forum Article” in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
12.04.2022: The group has moved to new offices and welcomes its newest members: Christian Reverón Baecker, Franz Pöschl and Markus Amaseder.
04.04.2022: Our work on transversal halide motions is published as a “Rising Star” article in Advanced Science.
24.03.2022: David joins the board of the European Society for Quantum Solar Energy Conversion.
2021
09.12.2021: From the joint work of Christian, Sebastian and Xiangzhou two articles on finite-temperature dynamics in halide perovskites have been recently posted on arXiv.
25.08.2021: Our group outing at the high-ropes park was fun – see here.
02.08.2021: Frederico Delgado joins the group as a PhD student – welcome to the team, Frederico!
20.07.2021: Long time no see: we recently had a half-day group meeting with online visitors and a nice lunch break in Garching.
08.06.2021: Berni’s paper with the Nijhuis group and other collaborators on tuning the conductivity of molecular wires is published in Nature Communications.
15.05.2021: We have published an ACS Energy Letters perspective article on polarons and dynamic disorder in halide perovskites, which has been written with our collaborators and led by Max.
08.03.2021: Stefan’s recent paper summarizes a great team effort to extend the SRSH functional to phonon calculations of semiconductors!
18.01.2021: Franziska Hegner secures a Walter Benjamin Fellowship and joins our group as a postdoctoral fellow. It’s great to have you in our team Franziska!
2020
15.12.2020: Sebastián Caicedo-Dávila joins our group as a postdoctoral fellow. A warm welcome to Sebastián!
08.12.2020: And a great end for the year: Berni’s paper on excited-state potential energy surfaces published in Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.
30.11.2020: Christian’s work in collaboration with friends from the Yaffe group at Weizmann published as Editors’ suggestion in Physical Review Materials.
17.11.2020: Long overdue update: Karin Thalmann and Martin Schwade recently joined us for working on their MSc theses – a warm welcome to both! And another paper by Xiangzhou on 2D halide perovskites in collaboration with experimental groups appeared in ACS Energy Letters.
10.08.2020: Xiangzhou’s work in collaboration with our experimental partners is published in Nano Letters.
30.06.2020: Our paper on exciton diffusion in 2D halide perovskites with the Chernikov and Yaffe group was posted on arXiv.
09.06.2020: The folks at e-conversion recently interviewed David – see here.
02.06.2020: The group welcomes Waldemar Schmunk. He’ll work as a BSc student in our group.
27.04.2020: We warmly welcome Stefan Böhm as a BSc student in our group.
20.04.2020: The group welcomes Karina Houska, who will work on her BSc project with us.
18.03.2020: David becomes a Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe.
16.03.2020: The entire group works in home office now.
02.03.2020: A warm welcome to Manuel Grumet, who joins our group as a graduate student.
31.01.2020: Great start for the new year: superb team effort of Daniel with our collaborators from the Weizmann Institute makes it into Advanced Materials.
2019
10.12.2019: We celebrated the upcoming end of 2019 with a Christmas party and curling in the Hirschgarten!
06.12.2019: Another paper with our collaborators from the Weizmann Institute was posted on arXiv.
21.11.2019: Our first paper on solid ion conductors with friends from the Weizmann Institute was posted on arXiv.
28.10.2019: Our group welcomes its newest member, Xiangzhou Zhu, who joins us as a graduate student.
02.10.2019: David becomes a PI in the SolTech initiative.
12.09.2019: Congratulations to Berni who received a poster prize at the e-conversion meeting in Venice!
30.08.2019: Lisi’s paper on magnetic configurations at molecule-metal interfaces was published in Physical Review Materials.
22.07.2019: David joins the e-conversion excellence cluster at TUM!
17.07.2019: Christian’s paper on disorder and Urbach energies in halide perovskites has appeared in Nature Communications – see also a news article in German by the University of Regensburg.
12.07.2019: We had our first group outing in Munich to celebrate Hubert’s completed thesis and our start at TUM.
10.07.2019: Our paper on the charge transport through self-assembled monolayers with collaborators from Singapore and Heidelberg was published.
17.06.2019: New city & new group name: our move to TUM has been completed.
03.06.2019: We are very happy to welcome our new group member, Carola Kappauf, who will support our office duties.
13.05.2019: David has accepted a position in the Department of Physics at TUM and we are moving to Munich! Our farewell party with colleagues & friends was the last chance for a group picture in Regensburg.
03.02.2019: Christian’s paper on disorder and Urbach energies in perovskites was posted on arXiv.
01.02.2019: We are happy to be part of a new priority program that will fund perovskite research in Germany.
28.01.2019: Hubert’s benchmark study on structure and binding in halide perovskites has been deposited on arXiv.
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01.12.2018: We are very happy to welcome our new group member Lisi Wruß, who will be working as a postdoctoral fellow with us.
17.10.2018: To say Goodbye to Arun, and to welcome Berni and Daniel, our group recently went on a hike in the lovely Laber valley close to Regensburg.
10.10.2018: A paper with our collaborators from the Weizmann Institute and the University of Pennsylvania on defects in halide perovskites has been deposited on arXiv.
02.10.2018: Max, Christian and David attended the PSCO meeting in Lausanne – we had fun!
01.10.2018: A warm welcome to the new members of our group, Daniel Angerer and Bernhard Kretz.
27.08.2018: Part of our group visited the lab of Omer Yaffe at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
16.07.2018: We are very happy to welcome Arun Sagotra from UNSW Sydney, who is visiting us for the next three months.
29.06.2018: The CMS group visited the impressive Schulerloch cave near Kelheim.
24.05.2018: A paper by David on antimony halide perovskites has been deposited on arXiv.
22.05.2018: We received startup funding within the UR Fellows Program for launching an interdisciplinary initiative with colleagues in experimental physics and chemistry!
14.05.2018: Our group had some exciting days discussing science and hiking along the Danube with our visitor Prof. Andrew Rappe from the University of Pennsylvania.
09.05.2018: Welcome to Harikrishnan K.P from IIT Bombay who is visiting us this summer!
30.04.2018: We are grateful to receive computing time for JUWELS, Jülich supercomputing center.
25.04.2018: David delivers the keynote lecture at the network meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Regensburg.
22.03.2018: What remains unexplained about the properties of halide perovskites? Click here to find out.
12.03.2018: Hubert Beck has joined the group for his M.Sc. thesis, welcome Hubert!
08.02.2018: Our group celebrated its one year anniversary with a dinner and playing some bowling.
05.02.2018: We are happy to welcome Harshini Venkata Annadata from the National University of Singapore as a visiting student.
10.01.2018: Check out our recent collaborative papers, posted on arXiv, on phonons in hybrid perovskites and their relation to carrier lifetimes and ionic composition.
06.12.2017: Our group had fun at a Christmas outing & visited the excellent Kepler museum.
11.10.2017: We are very happy to welcome two new group members: Max Schilcher joins as a PhD student, and Robert Hrdina supports our office duties.
04.07.2017: We visited the lovely Regensburg surroundings for some climbing and paddling action.
08.06.2017: Our group is co-organizing a minisymposium on theoretical chemistry in Regensburg.
26.05.2017: We are proud to be part of SFB 1277, granted by the German Science Foundation.
19.05.2017: Our group celebrated its start at the Regensburg Dult, click here for a group picture!
04.05.2017: We are very happy to welcome Keshav Srinivasan from IIT Bombay as a visiting student!
27.04.2017: We are grateful to receive computing time for JURECA, Jülich supercomputing center.
03.04.2017: Christian Gehrmann has joined us as a PhD student, welcome to the group Christian!
04.03.2017: Stefan Seidl has joined the group as a PhD student, welcome Stefan!
01.02.2017: the CMS group starts in Regensburg, exciting times!
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