SFB 1313 researcher Alexander Schlaich will be leaving the University of Stuttgart and start a new position as a W3 professor at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). From 1 September 2024 on, he will be the chair of the "Institute M-20 Atomistic Material Modeling in Aqueous Media". Congratulations to this huge success!
In his new position at the TU Hamburg, he and his research group will investigate the properties of functional materials, in particular functionalized porous media, starting from the molecular scale using sophisticated computer simulations that include quantum mechanical properties. In this context, they will use machine learning to determine molecular force fields, as well as classical algorithms, such as classical coarse-graining, Lattice-Boltzmann approaches and continuum-based methods, which they will parameterize from the smallest scale. At the TU Hamburg, a particular research focus lays on water-based materials. Different disciplines, such as material and engineering sciences, chemistry, physics etc., collaborate and try to make these sustainable approaches usable for energy generation, storage and conversion.
Alexander Schlaich was one of the project leaders of SFB 1313 research project C01 "A Lattice-Boltzmann investigation of two-phase electrolyte flow in porous structures with morphology alterations and tunable interfacial wetting behaviour" and will still be part of the Collaborative Research Center. Two researchers of his other current research groups (SFB 1333 and GRK 2948) will follow him to the TU Hamburg. He will furthermore be associated with SimTech and SFB 1313.
The SFB 1313 team wishes him a lot of success in his new position and thanks him for the very fruitful and pleasant collaboration over the last four years.