FHI
The NOMAD Laboratory

Novel Materials Discovery at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society

Alumni

116 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 University of Haifa, Israel
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 Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Karlsruhe, 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 Kleinsorge, Alexander Professor Technische Hochschule Wildau, Wildau, Germany
47 Kratzer, Peter Professor Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
48 Lee, Sung-Hoon Professor Kyung Hee University, South Korea
49 Levchenko, Sergey Professor Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Moscow, Russia
50 Li , Jia Professor Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China
51 Li, Bo Professor University of Chicago, Computer Science Department, USA
52 Li, Wei-Xue Executive Dean of Department of Chemical Physics and
Chair Professor (USTC)		 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China
53 Li, Xin-Zheng Professor Peking University, Beijing, China
54 Linic, Suljo Professor and
Director, Energy Systems Engineering		 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
55 Liu, Li-Min Professor Beihang University, Beijing, China
56 Liu, Wei Professor Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
57 Máca, František  Senior Scientist Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
58 Maestri, Matteo Professor
PI of ERC Research Group SHAPE		 Politecnico di Milano, Italy
59 Matera, Sebastian Group Leader at FHI Fitz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
60 Meyer, Jörg Professor Leiden University, Leiden, Netherland
61 Michaelides, Angelos Professor University of Cambridge, UK
62 Miyazaki, Ray Professor Hokkaido University, Institute of Catalysis, Hokkaido, Japan
63 Narasimhan, Shobhana Professor Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India
64 Neugebauer, Jörg Director and Professor  Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany
Professor Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
65 Ouyang, Runhai Professor Shanghai University, China
66 Pan, Ding Professor Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
67 Pankratov, Oleg A.  Professor Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
68 Penev, Evgeni Professor Rice University, Houston, USA
69 Peng, Yang Professor California State University Northridge, Northridge, USA
70 Pehlke, Eckhard Professor Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
71 Pentcheva, Rossitza Professor Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
72 Piccinin, Simone Senior Staff Scientist Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR-IOM, Trieste, Italy
73 Pilania, Ghanshyam  Senior Engineer General Electrics (GE), Aerospace Research, Niskayuna, USA
74 Piquini, Paulo Professor Federal University of Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
75 Polatoglu, Chariton Professor Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
76 Purcell, Thomas Professor The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
77 Qteish, Abdallah Professor Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan
78 Ratsch, Christian Professor,
IPAM Deputy Director		 IPAM, University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, USA
79 Reilly, Anthony Academic Staff - Computational Chemistry Dublin City University, Ireland
80 Ren, Xinguo Distinguished Researcher Institute of Physics, Beijing, China
81 Reuter, Karsten Director and Professor Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
82 Rinke, Patrick Professor Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
83 Rossi, Mariana Lise Meitner Research Group Leader Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie, Hamburg, Germany
84 Rubio, Angel Director and Professor Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie, Hamburg, Germany
85 Ruggerone, Paolo Professor University of Cagliari, Monserrato, Italy
86 Schindlmayr, Arno Professor Universität Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany
87 Seitsonen, Ari Ingénieur de recherche CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
88 Shang, Honghui Professor University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
89 Shin, Jungho Head of Chemical Data-driven Research Center Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Daejoen, Korea
90 Singh, Abhishek Professor Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
91 Soon, Aloysius Professor Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
92 Stampfl, Catherine Professor The University of Sydney, Australia
93 Sutton, Christopher Professor University of South Carolina, USA
94 Tkatchenko, Alexandre Professor University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
95 Todorova, Mira Group Leader at MPIE Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany
96 Gao, Wang Professor Jilin University, Changchun, China
97 Wang, Yang-Gang  Professor Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
98 Wei, Ching-Ming Professor Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences (IAMS), Academia Sinica, Taipeh, Taiwan
99 Wu, Hua Professor Fudan University, Shanghai, China
100 Xu, Yong Professor Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
101 Yang, Qimin Professor Northeastern University, Boston, USA
102 Yeo, Byungchul Professor Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea
103 Yu, Byung Deok Professor University of Seoul, Korea
104 Zacharias, Marios Professor The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
105 Zhao, Xunhua Professor Southeast University, Nanjing, China
106 Zhang, Guoxu Professor Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
107 Zhang, Igor Ying Professor Fudan University, Shanghai, China
108 Zhang, Wei-Bing Professor Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, China
109 Zhang, Wenqing Professor Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
110 Zhang, Wenxing Professor Hanshan Normal University, Chaozhou, China
111 Zhang, Yongsheng Professor Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China
112 Zhou, Miao Professor Beihang University, Beijing, China
113 Zhou, Yuanyuan Professor Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
114 Zhu, Chune Professor Guangdong University of Technology, Guangdong, China
115 Ziletti, Angelo Principal Data Scientist Bayer, Leverkusen, Germany
116 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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