A warm welcome to all new team members who have joined in the last months as part of our new Vidi team. Fabian Lie started his PhD project already in September, and dr. Beatriz Rodriguez-Hernandez and dr. Pierre Lechifflart both joined the groups as postdocs just recently. It is already a pleasure to be working with you all.
Vidi grant for Linn
Linn is one out of four UT researchers to receive the Vidi grant of the NWO. The Vidi enables researchers to establish a new line of research with a budget of 800k€. Linn’s Vidi titled “Catch a wave - Directing energy- and charge-transfer in soft materials” is focused on developing Green’s function-based methods for calculating excited state forces and dynamics in complex solids. More information can be found here.
Congratulations to Kiara Wijnaldum
Today, Kiara defended her Bachelor thesis titled “Determining the electronic properties of a novel Bi-based semiconductor using DFT by comparing it with a common perovskite”. Warm congratulations and we look forward to seeing you again in the Applied Physics Master program.
Many congratulations, Dr. Hashemi
Last Friday, Parisa defended her PhD thesis in which she investigated charge-transfer excitations in Bacterriochlorophyll complexes using the GW+Bethe-Salpeter Equation approach. We wish you all the best for your future and will miss you very much in the group.
Cover article in J. Chem. Phys.
Sabrina’s and Zohreh’s article on charge-transfer in the reaction center of Rhodobacter spheroides made it onto the cover of the Journal of Chemical Physics, and is also part of the Emerging Investigators Special Collection 2023 of JCP. The cover was designed by Zohreh.
A very warm welcome to Kostas Fykouras
We are very happy to welcome Kostas Fykouras as a new PhD student in group. Kostas is going to use the GW+BSE approach to explore excitons in complex organic-inorganic perovskite-like structures.
Many congratulations to Sonja Krach!
Sonja defended an outstanding MSc thesis titled “Designing polar halide perovskites from first principles via chemical substitution, dimensional reduction, and octahedral distortions” today. We wish you all the best for your future, Sonja. It was a real treat to have you in the group!
Warmest congratulations to dr. Raisa-Ioana Biega
On Friday, January 14 2022, Raisa defended her PhD thesis on calculating optoelectronic properties of heterogeneous halide perovskites from first principles. Congratulations to the new Dr!
Dr. Raisa-Ioana Biega after her successful PhD defense.
Congratulations to Jasper Schiphorst!
Jasper defended his Master thesis “Calculating optoelectronic properties of halide double perovskites using a tight binding model” today. Very well done and all the best for the future!
Congrats to Erwin Dijkstra, B.Sc.
Today Erwin successfully defended his thesis “Double excitations within the time-dependent density functional theory and Bethe-Salpeter Equation approaches”. It was great to have you in the group and all the best for the future, Erwin!