FHI
The NOMAD Laboratory

Novel Materials Discovery at the FHI of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
and IRIS-Adlershof of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Alumni

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