Lukas Hörmann

Last week, I had a fantastic time at the second DAEMON Cost meeting in Den Haag. We made great progress in developing strategies to democratize and promote diversity in machine learning for materials science.

I had a great time @CCSC2024 atomic-scale in Heidelberg. It was a great venue to meet old friends and to network. Amongst great presentations by leaders of the field, I had the opportunity to present my research on atomic scale insights into frictional energy dissipation.

I am honoured to have been selected as a finalist for the Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award by the Surface Section of the German Physical Society. This allowed me to present my groundbreaking research on atomic-scale friction to a diverse audience of scientists at #dpg2024.

Great news! I have won a poster prize from the RCS Birmingham and West Midlands section for my work on ultra-low friction interfaces. See lnkd.in/ernu56Px for a thorough investigation of the impact that the structure of molecule/metal interface has on friction.

Our new publication explores the in-plane interactions of adsorbed molecules with lateral force microscopy. See doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… to learn how we were able to directly image hydrogen atoms, which have long eluded direct measurement due to their small size.

I am very proud to have been able to present a poster dedicated to my latest work at the "International Symposium on Machine Learning in Quantum Chemistry"! If you want to learn more, please check out the publication connected to it: doi.org/10.1021/acsome…

I am proud to have published a new paper on engineering ultra-low friction interfaces. See doi.org/10.1021/acsome… for a thorough investigation of the impact that the structure of molecule/metal interface has on the static friction coefficient.

I am very proud to have received a UFO postdoctoral fellowship from the Austrian state of Styria. The project has a duration of one year and will research switchable superlubricity, a state of ultra-low friction that can be switched on and off.