Dr. Volker Eyert

Dr. Volker Eyert earned a PhD in physics from the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1991. After holding a position at the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, he accepted an offer from the Helmholtz Center Berlin to establish a new group on atomistic simulations for photovoltaic applications in 1995. In 1998, Dr. Eyert completed his habilitation at Augsburg University, where he joined the Institute of Physics and the Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism as an assistant professor and PI of several collaborative research centers on cooperative phenomena and phase transitions in correlated materials. In 2011 he joined Materials Design as a senior scientist.

Dr. Eyert’s research has a strong focus on the development of spherical-wave based ab initio methods. In particular, he has developed an efficient full-potential Augmented Spherical Wave code, which he described in a book about this method.

Further research centers about electronic, magnetic, optical, and transport properties of materials with special emphasis on transition-metal oxides. In particular, Dr. Eyert has made substantial contributions to the understanding of the prominent metal-insulator transitions of VO₂, V₂O₃, and related oxides.

Dr. Eyert has authored one book, six book chapters, and over 150 peer-reviewed publications. He holds a patent on battery materials and has co-edited a focus issue of the J. Mater. Res. on Machine-Learned Potentials.