Prof. Dr. Dorothea Golze
Principal Investigator
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Dorothea has been a professor at the University of Würzburg since October 1, 2025. She previously established a junior research group in June 2021 through the German Research Foundation’s (DFG) Emmy Noether Programme. After studying chemistry at the University of Leipzig, she started her PhD at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) under the supervision of Prof. Jürg Hutter and graduated in 2016. She then joined the group of Prof. Patrick Rinke at Aalto University (Finland) as postdoc.
Dr. Francisco Antonio Delesma Diaz
Postdoc
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Antonio holds a PhD in nanoscience and nanotechnology from Cinvestav-IPN, Mexico. In 2021 he joined Prof. Patrick Rinke’s group at Aalto University, Finland, as a postdoc. Currently he works on the development of low-scaling GW algorithms that will exploit the performance boost of emerging Exascale architectures.
Dr. Antonio García Blázquez
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Antonio (García) completed his PhD in condensed matter physics at the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2025. He is currently working on a low-scaling GW methodology for solids.
Qing-Long Liu
PhD student
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Qing-Long got his master in applied mathematics and informatics from HSE, Russia and bachelor in chemistry from Inner Mongolia University, China.
He works on implementing relativistic effects to GW method to simulate XPS spectroscopy.
Ekin Esme Baş
PhD student
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Ekin completed her master’s and bachelor’s degree in Chemistry at Bogazici University, Turkey.
She is currently working on the calculation of vibrational spectra for 2D layered framework materials.
Moritz Leucke
PhD student
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Moritz got his master’s and bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Technische Universität Dresden. He works currently on implementing low-scaling GW algorithms.
Jannis Kockläuner
PhD student
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Jannis obtained his bachelor’s degree at Philipps University Marburg and his master’s degree at TU Dresden. As part of the Research Training Group 2861 he aims to enable accurate predictions of multi-electron core excitations with GW.
Johannes Scheffler
PhD student
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After earning both his bachelor’s degree in chemistry and his master’s degree in business chemistry from the University of Münster, Johannes joined the Collaborative Research Centre 1415 as a PhD student. His research focuses on leveraging modern machine learning models to accelerate the accurate prediction of vibrational spectra for 2D materials.
David Daniel Lara Vera
PhD student
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David holds a B.Sc. in Physics from Yachay Tech University (Ecuador). He is part of the Research Training Group 2767. His research involves the implementation of relativistic effects within the GW framework to predict structural and spectroscopic properties of heavy-element nanocrystals.