Materials scientist Blazej Grabowski from the University of Stuttgart receives second ERC grant [Picture: Jan Will]
For the second time, the European Research Council (ERC) has awarded one of the prestigious ERC grants to Prof. Blazej Grabowski, head of the Department of Material Design at the Institute of Material Science at the University of Stuttgart. With the current ERC Consolidator Grant "Materials 4.0", a total of EUR 2 million, Grabowski aims to achieve a quantum leap in the design of new materials by means of novel simulation methods. In 2015, Grabowski already received an ERC Starting Grant for the development of novel methods for atomistic simulations (then at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Düsseldorf). Since his appointment to the University of Stuttgart in March 2019, this ERC Starting Grant has been successfully continued at the Institute of Material Science. The research project "Materials 4.0" follows up on Grabowski's previous work on the development and application of simulation methods based on quantum mechanics. These simulation methods allow the computation of material properties with high accuracy and without experimental input. The objectives of the ERC project are in line with the visions of the Cluster of Excellence "Data-Integrated Simulation Science" (SimTech) at the University of Stuttgart.
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