Field of Work
The research of Prof. Grabowski focuses on the development and application of high-precision, ab initio-based simulation methods. An overarching goal is to determine reliable material properties for the design of new materials. Ab initio means that the methods are based on fundamental, quantum mechanical principles and do not require any experimental input. A very special expertise of Prof. Grabowski is the calculation of material properties at finite temperatures. For this purpose, efficient, statistical methods are being developed, which are primarily coupled with concepts from machine learning. Application examples are materials for novel batteries or hydrogen storage.
He focuses on Computer simulations of electrons and atoms, understanding of processes in materials on the smallest scale, determination of materials properties and improvement and design of materials, especially for materials for batteries und hydrogen-storage.
Personal Information
Prof. Grabowski was born 1978 in Poland. He studied Physics at the University of Paderborn and finished with Summa Cum Laude in 2005. He graduated at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung Düsseldorf and at the University of Paderborn and obtained his PhD with Summa Cum Laude in 2009. He was awarded a scholarship within the „DFG-Nachwuchsakademie“. He worked as a Postdoc at the Livermore National Laboratory in the USA and then as a group leader at the Max-Planck-Institut in Düsseldorf. In 2019, he was appointed Professor at the Institute for Materials Science at the University of Stuttgart. He obtained an ERC Starting Grant in 2015 and an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2019.