Principal Investigator

Udo Schwingenschlögl

Professor of Applied Physics

Research Interests: 2D Materials, Quantum Transport, Interface and Defect Physics, Correlated Materials, Thermoelectrics, Metal-Ion Batteries, Nanoparticles

Research Scientists

Julien Gorenflot

Research Scientist, Implementing FAIR data for the PSE division.

Xiaoning Zang

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Topological Phase, Twisted Light, Exciton, TDDFT

Postdoctoral Fellows

Abdus Samad

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: DFT, Lithium Ions Batteries, Computational Materials, Structure Analysis

Aleksandra Oranskaia

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Materials Modeling, vdW Interaction, Chemistry of Materials

Gokaran Shukla

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Transport in all kind of  materials and  devices

Hasan Abdullah

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Spintronics, Quantum Transport, Topological Materials, Orbitronics, Confinement

Mohammed Ghadiyali

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: 2D Materials, Perovskites, Metal-Semiconductor Interface, Solar cell

Roshan Ali

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Computational Materials, DFT, Solar cell, Catalysis, Optoelectronics

Shiqiang Yu

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: two-dimensional layered materials, First-Principles Calculations, noncollinear magentism, Type-II multiferroicity, interlayer interaction

PhD Students

Abdullah Bawazir

PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Quantum information processing, Bloch Oscillation, Floquet Theory, Orbitronics, Coherent Photovoltaics, Orbital Angular Momentum, Twisted Particles, Artificial Gauge Field

Aleksandr Voronin

PhD Student

Research Interests: Materials Modeling, Nanomaterials, Molecular Dynamics, DFT

Arun Jangir

PhD Student

Research Interests: Low Dimensional Materials, Phase Transition, Mechanical Properties

Basma K. Labani

PhD Student

Research Interests: 2D Materials, First-Principles Calculations, Reaction Mechanism, Computational Chemistry, Computational Physical Chemistry, Thermochemistry, CCUS, Gas sequestration, Catalysis

Ghaith Jamal Nadhreen

PhD student

Research Interests: 2D Materials, Materials Modeling, DFT, Graphene, Batteries, Membranes, Hydrogen Separation

Kirill Agapev

PhD Student

Research Interests: 2D Materials, Carbon Nanotubes, Perovskites, Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Luqman Saleem

PhD student

Research Interests: Quantum Transport, Exchange Magnon, Magnon Spintronics

Mohammad Alharthy

PhD Student

Research Interests: Materials Modeling, DFT, Molecular Dynamics, Reaction Mechanism, Process Modelling, Multiphase, Computational Physics

Rakesh Rosan Pradhan

PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Perovskite Solar Cells, Nanomaterials, Charge-Carrier Dynamics

Reem Alharbi

PhD Student

Research Interests: 2D Materials, Quantum Transport, Gas Sensing, DNA Sensing, Nanowire

Saber Fahad Alfurhud

PhD Student

Research Interests: 2D Heterostructures Tandem Solar Cells, Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Perovskite Solar Cells, Nanomaterials

Shubham R. Singh

PhD Student

Research Interests: Condensed Matter Theory, 2D Materials, Magnetism, Thermoelectrics, DFT, Transport in all kind of  materials and  devices, Energy harvesting

Shubham Tyagi

PhD Student

Research Interests: Superlattices, Interface Phenomena, 2D Material Heterostructures

MS Students

Abdulrahman Albishri

MS Student

Research Interests: Spin Hall effect, Topological Insulators, anomalous Hall effect, 2D magentic systems, non-collinear kagome magnets, tight-binding theory, Weyl/Dirac semimetals, linear response perturbation theory

Ali Hasan

MS Student

Research Interests: DFT simulation, Electronic Properties of Materials, Spintronics, Magnetoresistance, Silicon

Visiting researchers

Maxim Peskov

Visiting Researcher

Research Interests: First-Principles Calculations, Solid-State Chemistry, Multi-scale Materials Modeling, Graph Theory, Self-Assembly, Ionic Conductors, Zeolites and Related Materials, Metal-organic Frameworks, Wide-bandgap Semiconductors