
Senior Staff Scientist
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My goal is to design materials directly from atomic-scale simulations and to establish the tools and the concepts to systematically carry out this task. I currently focus primarily on the physical and chemical properties of surfaces, heterogeneous catalytic processes, the properties of transition metal alloys, the development of improved methods for sampling entropic contributions, and establishing methods for improving accuracy and error estimation in exchange and correlation functionals for electron density functional theory.
Research Focus Areas:
- Electronic structure theory
- Theoretical method development
- Descriptors
- Catalysis informatics
- Heterogeneous catalysis
- Bayesian error estimation functionals
- Beyond DFT
- Rate theory
- System scaling relations
- Method scaling relations
- Adsorbate-adsorbate interactions
- Dimensional data warehouse
- Analytical applications
- Environmental catalysis
- Synthetic fuels and chemicals
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