Working Group 1

Community standards: data, workflows and codes for materials design.

Representative areas of research:

  • data digitalisation best practices;
  • robust protocols for data acquisition of interest to the Action;
  • quality standards and open-source codes for materials design.
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Leader: Markus Stricker

Markus is Assistant professor for ‘Materials Informatics and Data Science‘ at Ruhr-University Bochum.

He is interested in computational materials science, data-based plasticity, data fusion from experiments and simulations, natural language processing, FAIR materials data.

Vice Leader: Jonathan Schmidt

Jonathan is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Materials Theory group at ETH Zurich.

His research is centered on accelerating material science through the application of machine learning methods.  A key focus of his work is the large-scale discovery of new materials through machine learning supported high-throughput searches.