Alumni

We enjoyed, benefitted and profited from the discussions, from the common exchange of ideas and conceptions and from working with our former group members of the theory group IFF-1, Quantum Theory of Materials, listed in order of most recent departure from the group. See also former group pictures.

Period

Former Members

Position

Institution

2024

Hao Wang

Guest scientist

TU Darmstadt

2019 – 2023

Robin Hilgers

Master & Doctoral student

INFORM DataLab GmbH, Data Strategy Consultant, Aachen

2021 – 2023

Hangyu Zhou

Guest Doctoral Student

Beihan University

2020 – 2023

David Gustin

Doctoral Student

 

2022 – 2023

Cheng Wang

Master Student

University Duisburg-Essen

2016 – 2019

Miriam Winkelmann

Doctoral Student

 

2019 – 2023

Johanna Carbone

Master & Doctoral student

TU Vienna

2019 – 2023

Uriel Aceves

Master & Doctoral student

IT-Consulting

2021 – 2023

Jörn Stöhler

Doctoral Student

 

2022 – 2023

Sarina Lebs

Master Student

 

2022 – 2023

Xiaoyu Liu

Master Student

 

2018 – 2023

Henning Janssen

Master & Doctoral student

 

2018 – 2023

Stefan Rost

Doctoral student

Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Düsseldorf, Germany

2018 – 2021

Vladyslav Kuchkin

Doctoral student

 

2014 – 2021

Uliana Alekseeva

Postdoc

 

2021 – 2022

Nicolas Eßing

Master student

 

2021 – 2022

Markus Struckmann

Master student

 

2021 – 2022

Areej Salim

Stipendiat

 

2021 – 2022

Chun Kit Dennis Law

Master student

PGI-8, Research Center Jülich

2021 – 2022

Rubel Mozumder

Master student

FAIRMAT, NOMAD Lab Berlin

2021 – 2022

Eduardo Mendive Tapia

Postdoc

 

2020 – 2022

Souvik Paul

Postdoc

University of Warwick

2020 – 2022

Daniele Pinna

Postdoc

0VIX

2019 – 2022

Dongwook Go

Postdoc

 

2018 – 2022

Vasily Tseplyaev

Doctoral student

 

2018 – 2022

Hanan Hamamera

Doctoral student

 

2018 – 2022

Anoop Kaithalikunnel Chandran

Doctoral student

JSC, FZJ

2018 – 2022

Hyun-Jung Kim

AvH Fellow Postdoc

 

2018 – 2019

Fabian Bertoldo

 

DTU Kopenhagen

2017 – 2022

Matthias Redies

Master & Doctoral student

 

2017 – 2022

Maximilian Merte

Master & Doctoral student

 

2017 – 2022

Stefan Rost

Docotoral student

 

2015 – 2022

Imara Lima Fernandes

Doktoral student & Postdoc

Trianel GmbH, Aachen

2014 – 2022

Christian-Roman Gerhorst

Doctoral student

Bosch

2012 – 2022

Roman Kovacik

Postdoc

 

2016 – 2022

Sergii Grytsiuk

Postdoc

University of Nijmegen

2002 – 2022

Ute Winkler

Secretary

retired

2017 – 2021

Matthias Redies

Doctoral student

 

2015 - 2021

Hongying Jia

Postdoc

 
2011 - 2021
Manuel Dos Santos Dias

Postdoc

Daresbury Laboratory (UK)

2018 - 2021
Kartik Samanta

Postdoc

MPI Dresden

2015 - 2021

Sascha Brinker

Master & Doctoral Student

 

2014 - 2021

Jens Bröder

Master & Doctoral student

PGI-9, Rearch Center Jülich

2020 - 2021
Zhewen Xu

Master Student

 

2018 - 2021

Lichuan Zhang

CSC Doctoral Student

 
2019 - 2020
Ivetta Slipukhina

Postdoc

 

2016 - 2020

Fabian Lux

Master & Doctoral student

Univeristy of Mainz

2016 - 2020

Avinash Tiwari

Postdoc

 

2014 - 2020

Filipe Guimaraes

Postdoc

 
2008 - 2020
Shigeru Tsukamoto

Postdoc

IBI-5, Research Center Jülich

2006 - 2020

Frank Freimuth

Postdoc

Johannes Gutenberg- University Mainz

1999 – 2019
Phivos Mavropoulos

Principale Investigator

Universität Athen, Griechenland

2011 – 2019
Mohammed Bouhassoune

Postdoc

 
2013 – 2019
Jan-Philipp Hanke

Master & Doctoral student

Aixigo AG Aachen

2014 – 2019
Gideon Müller

Master & doctoral student

FZ Friedrichshafen

2014 – 2019
Marcel Bornemann

Doctoral student

d-fine GmbH Frankfurt

2013 – 2019

Patrick Buhl

Master & Doctoral student

University of Mainz

2009 – 2019
Bernd Zimmermann

Diploma & Doctoral student & Postdoc

Inform Aachen

2017 – 2018

Arjana I Gede

Master student

 
2013 – 2018
Chengwang Niu

AvH Fellow Postdoc

School of Physics, Shandong University, China

2016 – 2018
Jonathan Chico

Postdoc

Sandvik, Stockholm

2012 – 2018
Irene Aguilera

AvH Fellow Postdoc

IEK-5 Research Center, University of Amsterdam

2016 – 2017
Steven Rendon Restrepo
 

École Centrale Paris, Frankreich

2014 – 2017
Julen Ibanez Azpiroz

Postdoc

Centro de Fisica de Materiales, San Sebastian, Spanien

2013 – 2017
Rico Friedrich

Doctoral student

Duke University, Durham, USA

2010 – 2017
Mathias Christian Thomas David Müller

Master & Doctoral student

D-fine, Düsseldorf

2013 - 2017
Kaustubh Bhat

Doctoral student

Statkraft Düsseldorf

2013 - 2017
Guillaume Geranton

Doctoral student

AGP Glass

2016 - 2017
Luiz Felipe Aguinsky
  
2015 - 2017
Daniel Schürhoff

Master student

JSC Research Center Jülich

2011 - 2017

Nicole Helbig

Emmy-Noethe Fellow young investigator

RWTH-Aachen

2009 - 2016
Ivetta Slipukhina

Postdoc

 
2015 - 2016
Max Nusspickel

Master student

King's College London

2006 - 2016
Markus Betzinger

Master & Doctoral student & HGF Postdoc

LPA Consulting

2010 - 2016
Hoang Long Nguyen

Postdoc

Cognotekt Köln

2008 – 2016
Boris Lorenz

Doctoral student

Continental AG Frankfurt

2013 – 2016
Ashis Kumar Nandy

Postdoc

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Materials Theory, Uppsala University

2010 – 2016
Daniel Aaron Klüppelberg

Doctoral student

 
2011 – 2015
Andrea Neroni

Doctoral student

Prometeia, Bologna, Italy

2011 – 2015
Siebe Rossen

Doctoral student

TU Eindoven

2010 – 2015
Benedikt Schweflinghaus

Doctoral student

SAP

2014 – 2015
Nicholas Ohs

Master student

ETH Zürich

2014 – 2015
Johannes Kirschmair

Master student

New Zealand

2009 – 2015
Ersoy Sasioglu

Postdoc

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

2013 – 2015
Andrea Nobile

Postdoc

Huawei Technologies München

2012 – 2015
Iris Theophilou

Postdoc

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (Hamburg)

2012 – 2015
Ali Al-Zubi

Doctoral student

American University of the Middle East in Kuwait

2012 – 2015
Zeila Zanolli

Marie-Curie Fellow Postdoc

Department for Theoretical Physics, RWTH-Aachen University

2011 – 2015
Elias Rabel

Doctoral student

Sankt Stefan im Rosental, Österreich

2011 – 2015
Jeiran Jokar

Doctoral student

SAP

2010 – 2015
Jürgen Weischenberg

Master & Doctoral student

Technische Universität Darmstadt

2009 – 2015
Timo Schena

Master & Doctoral student

d-fine GmbH Frankfurt

2007 – 2009
Predrag Lazic

Postdoc

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

2006 – 2015
Kourosh Rahmanizadeh

Doctoral student

 
2012 – 2014
Roman Kovacik

Postdoc

RWTH Aachen

2012 – 2014
Giovanna Lani

Postdoc

Amsterdam Institute of Molecules, Medicines and Systems (AIMMS)

2010 – 2014
Martin Callsen

Doctoral student

Tsukuba University, Japan

2007 – 2014
David Bauer

Master & Doctoral student

E.ON Inhouse Consulting GmbH

2012 – 2013
Konstantin Tillmanns

Diploma student

 
2010 - 2013
Pengxiang Xu

Postdoc

Institute for Theoretical Physics , RWTH Aachen University

2009 - 2013
Daria Popova

Doctoral student

Center for Free Electron Science, DESY, Hamburg

2007 - 2013
Paul F. Baumeister

Master & Doctoral student

Exascale Innovation Center (EIC) , JSC, Forschungszentrum Jülich

2008 - 2013
Martin Schlipf

Doctoral student

Electronic Structure Laboratory, UC Davis, USA. 

2009 - 2013
Hongbin Zhang

Postdoc

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (USA)

1976 - 2013

Ansgar Liebsch

Principle Investigator

retired

2009 - 2012
Tobias Burnus

Postdoc

 
2011 - 2012
Narasimham Mulakaluri
 

University Freiburg

2010 - 2012
Pascal Kordt

Diploma student

Max-Planck Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz

2008 - 2012
Alexander Thieß

Doctoral student

TWT GmbH - Science & Innovation

2006 - 2011
Swantje Heers

Diploma & Doctoral student

Bundesnetzagentur Bonn

2006 - 2011
Andreas Gierlich

Diploma & Doctoral student

Soptim Aachen

2004 - 2010
Erik Koch

Postdoc

German Research School for Simulation Science

2005 - 2010
Andreas Dolfen

Doctoral student

German Research School for Simulation Science --> Esprit GmbH

2009 - 2010
Clemens Adolphs

Diploma student

German Research School for Simulation Science

2000 - 2009
Marcus Heide

Doctoral student

Osaka University, Japan

2006 - 2009
Ali Al-Zubi

Doctoral student

MPI Düsseldorf

1975 - 2009

Hans Lustfeld

Principle Investigator

retired

2002 - 2008
Manfred Niesert

Diploma & Doctoral student

Areva Erlangen

2003 - 2008
Arno Schindlmayr

Postdoc

University Paderborn

2005 - 2008
Simon Woodford

Doctoral student

Institute of Cancer Research, Therapeutic Ultrasound Team, Sutton, Surrey, England

2005 - 2008
Chunyan Yang

Doctoral student

EPFL SB IPN LNS, Lausanne

2007 - 2008
Mohammed Bouhassoune

Postdoc

University Paderdorn

2007 - 2008
Tomoya Ono

AvH Fellow Postdoc

Osaka University

1971 - 2007
John Harris

Principle Investigator

 
2006 - 2007
Laurent Chaput

Postdoc

University of Mulhouse

2006 - 2007
Alexander Hanuschkin

Diploma student

University Freiburg

2005 - 2007
Eva Pavarini

Principle Ivestigator

PGI-2 Research Center

1974 - 2006

Andreas Bringer

Principle Investigator

retired

2000 - 2005
Jaakko Akola

Postdoc

University of Jyväskylä, Finland

2002 - 2005
Yurij Mokrousov

Doctoral student

Universität Hamburg

2003 - 2005
Juarez da Silva

Postdoc

HU Berlin, NREL Boulder

2003 - 2005
Jussi Enkovaara

Marie-Curie Fellow Postdoc

Technical University of Helsinki, Espoo

2004 - 2005
Andrei Postnikov

Postdoc

University of Metz

2004 - 2005
Azadeh Farahzadi

Doctoral student

RWTH Aachen

2001 - 2003
Vacile Caciuc

Postdoc

Universität Münster

2002 - 2003
Tsukurn Ohwaki

Postdoc

NISSAN Research Center, Yokohama, Japan

1996 - 2002
Ralf Berger

Doctoral student

RWTH Aachen

1999 - 2002
Armin Antons

Doctoral student

Rutgers University

2002 - 2002
Armin Antons

Doctoral student

Ingenieurfirma in Aachen

1970 - 2001
Kurt Sturm

Principle Investigator

 
1995 - 2001
Winfried Kromen

Doctoral student

HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG

1996 - 2000
Stefan Heinze

Doctoral student

IBM Yorktown Heights, Universität Hamburg

1996 - 2000
Philipp Kurz

Doctoral student

SD&M Ratingen

1997 - 2000
Xiliang Nie

Postdoc

NREL Boulder

1998 - 2000
Sean Clark

Postdoc

London

1999 - 2000
Friedrich Förster

Diploma student

MPI of Biochemistry, Martinsried

1993 - 1999
Oliver Pfaffenzeller

Doctoral student

 
1997 - 1999
Rainer Spettmann

Diploma student

 
1997 - 1998
Dietrich Frielinghaus

Diploma student

 
1996 - 1997
Markus Aretz

Diploma student

Universität Bochum

1996 - 1997
Detlef Hohl

Doctoral student

 
1990 - 1996
Benedikt Engels

Doctoral student

Universität Bochum

1992 - 1996
Peter Richard

Doctoral student

SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG, AUDI AG

1992 - 1996
Christian Schroer

Doctoral student

Universität Bochum

1995 - 1996
Susanne Handschuh

Dcotoral student

 
1995 - 1996
Rossitza Pentcheva

Diploma student

FHI der MPG Berlin, München

1994 - 1995
Sasha Schick

Postdoc

Evanston, UC Davis, Academy of Science Praque

1963 - 1994
Konrad Fischer

Principle Investigator

retired

Pictures of Alumni

Gruppe_2007.poster.jpeg
Group photo 2007
Gruppe_2004.poster.jpeg
Group photo 2004

Group pictures PGI-1 / IAS-1

PGI1Gruppenbild2011__jpg.poster.jpeg
Group 2004
pgi1_gruppenbild_jpg.poster.jpeg
Group 2007
PGI1Gruppenbild2011V2__jpg.poster.jpeg
Group photo of staff PGI-1/IAS-1

Last Modified: 19.03.2024