People

Dr. Rico Friedrich

Group leader

ORCID

Google Scholar

Curriculum vitae

• 2D materials discovery and design
• materials thermodynamics
• high-entropy materials discovery
• magnetism & spintronics
• design of heterostructure interfaces

Dr. Chen Chen Er

Postdoc

ORCID

Google Scholar

• disorder in reduced dimensions
• high-entropy surfaces and 2D materials
• implementation of workflows for high-entropy materials

Dr. Balaram Thakur

Postdoc

ORCID

Google Scholar

• corrected entalpies of 2D materials
• ML for materials thermodynamics
• coordination corrected enthalpies for the thermodynamics of halides

M. Sc. Anastasiia Nihei

PhD student

ORCID

Google Scholar

• autonomous desigh of vertical heterostructures
• non-van der Waals 2D heterostructures
• implementation of the coincidence lattice method (AFLOW-Hetbuilder)

M. Sc. Tom Barnowsky

PhD student

ORCID

Google Scholar

• surface passivation of non-vdW 2D materials
• descriptor development and software implementation for exfoliability of 2D materials

M. Sc. Mani Lokamani

Associate scientific staff

ORCID

Google Scholar

• interoperability workflows for materials discovery
• spin-orbit coupling in non-vdW 2D materials