Who you would work with

Dr. Jan Janssen

Group Leader, Materials Informatics · MPI SusMat

Jan Janssen's research connects ab-initio thermodynamics, machine-learned interatomic potentials and uncertainty quantification with scientific workflows and high-performance computing. Lead developer of the pyiron workflow framework and maintainer of materials informatics packages in the conda-forge community; previously developed autonomous simulation protocols for the Exascale Computing Project as a Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

• Ab-initio thermodynamics
• Interatomic potentials
• Uncertainty quantification
• Scientific workflows
• HPC

Career

• since 2023Group Leader, Materials Informatics, Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials, Düsseldorf
• 2024Invited Fellow, Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation, University of Chicago
• 2022–2023Director's Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical Division (T-1), Los Alamos National Laboratory
• 2021–2022Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• 2015–2021PhD candidate, Computational Materials Design, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Düsseldorf