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TUM is firmly committed to a sustainable future. We don’t just want to talk about sustainability – we want to live it! That’s why we are once again delighted to invite the entire TUM community to the upcoming TUM Sustainability Day on April 29, 2026. MDSI and AMC will also be there, again with talks… [read more]

At the upcoming Atomistic Modeling Seminar, Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Evers (University of Regensburg) will present his work on mesoscopic transport within the Landauer framework, with a focus on scattering states and their spatial structure. The talk will address circulating currents and their impact on… [read more]

The upcoming speaker of the Atomistic Modeling Seminar, Dr. Kristyna Pluhackova, is an Independent Junior Research Group Leader at the Cluster of Excellence SimTech at the University of Stuttgart. She uses multiscaling molecular dynamics simulations to investigate complex biological processes,… [read more]

At a recent Atomistic Modeling Seminar, Prof. Bettina Keller (Freie Universität Berlin) presented her work on the thermal isomerization of retinal, focusing on reaction coordinates, committors, and entropic effects. [read more]

Jonathan Schmidt is an ETH Zürich researcher in AI for solid-state physics and materials science at the COSMO Lab at EPFL Lausanne. He will present how machine learning is reshaping materials modelling, from large-scale materials discovery through the Alexandria database to simulations that bring… [read more]

The last speaker of this winter semester's seminar series, Dr. Ivor Lončarić, is a Senior Research Associate at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia. He develops machine‑learning and first‑principles methods to model complex materials across larger scales, currently leading a project on interatomic… [read more]

Harald Oberhofer, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Bayreuth uses first principles simulations and data driven analysis for materials development. Dr. Íñigo Iribarren Aguirre, PostDoc in Prof. Alessio Gagliardi’s group, works on a computational workflow that benchmarks classical… [read more]

Tejs Vegge Professor and Head of the Section for Autonomous Materials Discovery at the Technical University of Denmark. Our second speaker specializes in AI‑driven computational discovery of clean‑energy materials, spanning advanced batteries, hydrogen and ammonia systems, and nanoparticle… [read more]

Bartolomeo Civalleri is a professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Turin in Italy. As an expert on ab initio modelling in solid-state chemistry, he contributed to the development of the CRYSTAL code, a simulation tool he will introduce in his talk. [read more]

Carla Verdi is ARC DECRA Fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia. She is an expert in the field of computational materials physics and will present first principles and machine learning methods for modeling electron phonon interactions and polarons in complex oxides, revealing how… [read more]