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Laboratory for Materials Simulations (LMS)

The Laboratory for Materials Simulations was created in July 2021 within the new Division for Scientific Computing, Theory and Data (SCD). The Laboratory currently hosts three groups, the Materials Software and Data group, led by Dr. Giovanni Pizzi, the Multiscale Materials Modelling group, led by Dr. Matthias Krack, and the Light Matter Interaction group, led by Prof. Dr. Michael Schüler.


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20 November 2023
Materials Cloud MC3D

New post-doc position on high-throughput discovery in the MSD group

A new post-doc opportunity is open to join the MSD group to set up and maintain large scale materials discovery projects based on the workflow engine AiiDA. 

These positions are funded by NCCR MARVEL, offering close collaboration opportunities with project partners such as the Swiss Supercomputer Center CSCS, and other institutions in Switzerland and Europe.

Deadline: December 10, 2023

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4 July 2023
AiiDA

Two post-doc positions funded by SwissTwins open in the MSD group

Two new post-doc opportunities (post-docs/research software engineers) are open, to join the AiiDA development team (MSD group), focusing on supporting large data scales and next-generation HPC infrastructures.

These positions are funded under the SwissTwins project, offering close collaboration opportunities with project partners such as the Swiss Supercomputer Center CSCS, and other institutions in Switzerland and Europe.

Deadline: July 30, 2023

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28 June 2022
Cover of nature nanotechnology March 2018

MARVEL team wins inaugural PRACE HPC Excellence award

The first ever PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) HPC Excellence Award has been awarded to a team led by Professor Nicola Marzari, head of Theory and Simulation of Materials at EPFL's School of Engineering and Materials Simulations at PSI, and director of NCCR MARVEL. The € 20,000 award is given to “an outstanding individual or team for ground-breaking research that leads to significant advances in any research field through the usage of high-performance computing”, and recognizes the team’s effort in the discovery and characterization of novel two-dimensional materials.

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Latest Scientific Highlights

14 November 2023
AiiDA common workflows for code verification

New Nat. Rev. Phys. publication: A “gold standard” for computational materials science codes

A large consortium of scientists, coordinated by PSI researchers in the LMS laboratory, led the most comprehensive verification effort so far on computer codes for materials simulations, providing their colleagues with a reference dataset and a set of guidelines for assessing and improving existing and future codes. 

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31 October 2023
Marelli et al

Cobalt-free layered perovskites RBaCuFeO5+d (R = 4f lanthanide) as electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction

Co oxides with perovskite-related structure are particularly promising, cost-effective OER catalysts. However, the increasing Co demand by the battery industry is pushing the search for Co-free alternatives. Here we investigate the potential of the Co-free layered perovskite family RBaCuFeO5+δ (R = 4f lanthanide), where we identify the critical structural and electronic variables leading to high OER catalytical performance. The employed methodology, based in the use of advanced neutron and X-ray synchrotron techniques combined with ab initio DFT calculations allowed to reveal LaBaCuFeO5+δ as new, promising Co-free electroctalyst. Moreover, we could show that this material can be industrially produced in nanocrystalline form. We believe that the reported results and methodology may contribute to the implementation of new technologies aimed to generate energy with lower carbon emissions, and can also inspire the scientific community in their search of other Co-free materials with good OER electrocatalytical properties.

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24 November 2022
Structure of the PREMISE ORD project

Consortium led by LMS wins funding to establish ORD practices

A consortium led by Dr. Giovanni Pizzi, Group leader of the “Materials Software and Data” group in the Laboratory for Materials Simulations, has won funding of almost CHF1.3 million for a three-year project dubbed PREMISE: “Open and reproducible materials science research.”  

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Laboratory for Materials Simulations (LMS)
Paul Scherrer Institut
OVGA/202
5232 Villigen PSI
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Head of Laboratory
Prof. Dr. Nicola Marzari
Phone: +41 56 310 46 88
Email: nicola.marzari@psi.ch

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Nadja Ebner
Phone: +41 56 310 42 88
Email: nadja.ebner@psi.ch


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