Christopher Stein, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the TUM School of Natural Sciences, aims to promote close collaboration between students and scientists at the Atomistic Modelling Center: "I envision the AMC will bring different fields and the respective students together and exploit their complementary potentials." He relies on the innovative approaches and out-of-the-box thinking within the centre's interdisciplinary teams: "I hope the interdisciplinary center will help me to find answers to problems in our research and raise exciting questions I do not even think about now."

As a chemist, Stein applies theoretical chemistry methods to better understand and optimize (electro-)catalytic processes. To this end, his working group develops electronic structure models that enable both exploratory and highly accurate calculations. A particular focus lies on the identification of relevant catalyst structures by means of modern simulation methods.