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Dr. Volker Eyert
Volker is a Senior Scientist at Materials Design® with a strong background in density functional theory-based methods and their application to solid state materials.
Since 1998, Volker has been at the Institute of Physics and the Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism at the University of Augsburg in Germany where he played an essential role in initiating and leading multi-institutional advanced research projects in the field of solid state materials. He has lectured on Computational Physics, Materials Science, and Electronic Structure Calculations, and is the author of a book on electronic structure methods and about 120 research articles and book contributions.
Volker developed an efficient Full-Potential Augmented Spherical Wave (ASW) code, which is based on density functional theory and gives access to the electronic, magnetic, optical, and elastic properties of crystalline materials. Materials Design® distributed an early version of this code as "ElectrA".
He studied physics at the University of Münster, Germany, and received a PhD in Physics from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. He also held Post Doctoral positions at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany and the Hahn-Meitner-Institute in Berlin, Germany.
Born in Münster, he spent several years in Darmstadt and Stuttgart. For the last 15 years, he has lived in Potsdam near Berlin, where he recently found his true love, Kerstin. He has two children, Florian and Carolin, who have just begun shaping their own lives. In his spare time, he enjoys jogging, gardening, reading, traveling, and the cultural life of the Berlin area.