Nakib obtained his PhD in Physics from Boston College (USA) in 2019. Since then he has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (USA), Postdoctoral Researcher at ICN2 (Spain), and an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Humboldt-Universität (Germany) before establishing this group in 2024. His primary focus is on the physics of the interactions and transport phenomena in condensed matter, which he studies using ab initio methods. CV.

Sally obtained her Master's in Material Science and Nano-Object (SMNO) from Sorbonne University, France. She then completed a PhD in Condensed Matter and Nanoscience from Aix-Marseille University, France, focusing on point defects in high entropy alloys using ab initio atomistic simulations. She then pursued a Postdoctoral position at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research expertise spans material science and computational physics.

Dwaipayan completed his Integrated Master's in Physics from the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), India. His research interests include development and application of molecular modeling techniques, with a goal of designing sustainable next-generation devices. In the past, he carried out transport physics research in carbon nanotube heterojunction systems. At present, his work is focused on methods development related to the coupled electron-phonon Boltzmann transport equations. Outside of academia, he enjoys singing and jamming during his free time.

Willy studied the lightcone quantization of the bosonic string for his Bachelor thesis at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he now is a Master student. During his studies he developed machine learning and image analysis applications for the Biotoxicological group at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. In cooperation with the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) he is working on his thesis using physics-informed neural networks to predict the temperature field during laser-welding processes. In his free time he likes photography, hockey, and gaming.

Jakob is working on efficient computation of anharmonic phonon properties.

Scalable Wave Solvers in Large-Scale Scientific Computing: From Convergence to Energy Efficiency

Nonadiabatic phonon spectra and their implications in various materials

Variational approach to self-trapped polarons and hopping transport

Extraction of the self-energy and Eliashberg spectral function from angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy.

Planckian bounds on dissipation.

Thermal imaging and phonon mean-free-path spectroscopy by one- and two-laser Raman thermometry.

Uncertainty-aware molecular dynamics from Bayesian active learning for phase transformations and thermal transport in SiC.

Toward room temperature superconductivity via engineered dielectric response of the environment.

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