Prof. Johannes Lischner

Johannes obtained a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell University in 2010 working in the group of Prof. Tomas Arias. From 2010 to 2014, he was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in the groups of Prof. Steven Louie and Prof. Marvin Cohen. From 2014 to 2021, he was a Royal Society University Research Fellow. 

In his research, Johannes studies the physical and chemical properties of materials using theoretical modelling approaches. Currently, much of his work is focussed on nanomaterials and energy materials. For example, he is interested in understanding the properties of twisted bilayer materials, catalytic metal surfaces, plasmonic nanoparticles and defects. To learn about the properties of these materials, he employs a variety of modelling techniques ranging from quantum-mechanical approaches, such as many-body perturbation theory (GW/BSE method) or density-functional theory, to classical force fields and elastic continuum models.