Nandhakumar Velankanni, PhD

Member of MTG since Jan 2022

PhD IISER Pune, India
Brain Pool Research Fellow (since Jan 2022)
Jointly supervised by Prof. Dr. Habil. Catherine Stampfl FAA FRSN

Previous position:
Postdoc, ICTP, Trieste, Italy

Phone: +82-2-2123-7433
Room: Engineering B416
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Research topics

• Computational heterogeneous catalysis
• CO₂ utilization
• Water splitting reactions

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Methods

• Density-functional (perturbation) theory
• Ab initio thermodynamics
• Kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) methods (via the Zacros code)
• Ab initio molecular dynamics (via the CP2K code)

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Publications

1. N. Kumar, Y. Lee, G. Lee, S. Lee, T. Lee, S.-H. Yoo, C. Stampfl, A. Soon, and W. Jang, submitted