01/2026
Fast and robust differentiable quantum chemistry in the tight-binding approximation:
Our latest contribution in JCTC.
09/2025
All things Quantum Drude Oscillators: Our
review in JCP.
05/2025
WCTC slowly extending eastwards. Off to Reno!
11/2024
Our proposal for a new long program at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA got accepted! Excited to explore new connections and synergies between
Numerical Algebraic Geometry and Correlated Electrons in Spring 2027.
08/2024
Celebrating Emily Carter with a wonderful symposium in the beautiful Asilomar
06/2024
What a week! American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry at UNC
05/2024
Another fun weekend of science at WCTC — this time at UC Merced
04/2024
Protein, my protein, how soft are you? New insights from quantum-level dynamics simulations with machine-learned force fields. Now published in
Science Advances.
01/2024
Honored to continue at Stanford as DFG Walter Benjamin Fellow!
12/2023
Catching up with the latest science during IPAM's reunion conference at Lake Arrowhead
10/2023
Fast and scalable Many-Body Dispersion for Everyone! Check out
libmbd in GitHub and details in our latest
article in JCP.
08/2023
All gather in the Bay! Looking forward to this year's ACS Fall Meeting in San Francisco
05/2023
Plans for the weekend? West Coast Theoretical Chemistry meeting!
03/2023
A week of exciting science at the APS March Meeting in Las Vegas
07/2022
Great week at Tahoe for the American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry!
07/2022
New position! Joined
Prof. Todd J. Martínez as Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford. Looking forward to an exciting new chapter!
07/2022
Honored recipient of the
Rolf Tarrach Award for my PhD thesis. Thanks to
Les Amis d'Université  for a wonderful ceremony and evening.
03/2022
Back in Los Angeles for an exciting IPAM long program on
Advancing Quantum Mechanics with Mathematics and Statistics
12/2021
Thrilled to have my PhD thesis awarded with the Excellent Thesis Award by the Doctoral School in Science and Engineering of the University of Luxembourg!
10/2021
Excited and honored to be shortlisted for the
FNR Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis!
08/2021
Out now: Our
PRR article on multipolar exchange and dispersion within the quantum Drude oscillator model.
01/2021
Our latest contribution in
Nature Communications reveals the unexpected role of so-far neglected non-covalent interactions beyond the random-phase approximation.
12/2020
Dr. Stöhr, I presume? PhD Defense ✔
07/2020
Hybrid QM/ML: Advancing DFTB with accurate many-body repulsive potentials from Deep Tensor Neural Networks. Check out our latest
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letter!
03/2020
DFT and beyond in the Tight-Binding approximation: The latest release of DFTB+ is summarized in
JCP. Cheers, Ben and Bálint!
12/2019
Check out our latest publication on
Quantum mechanics of proteins in explicit water
! Now published in Science Advances.
06/2019
Wondering how to perform van der Waals-inclusive electronic structure calculations? Go check out our
Chemical Society Review!
11/2018
In
our latest Physical Reviews Letter, we present exciting insights into the relation of electronic properties and the "quantum-geometry" of atomic dimers.
12/2016
Amazing times during the long program on "Understanding many-particle systems with Machine Learning" at the Insitute of Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA! Science, Sun, and Sightseeing 😎
09/2016
New position! Excited to join Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko at the University of Luxembourg for my PhD studies!
04/2016
Our density matrix-based approach to parametrize
ab initio van der Waals models applicable to Density-Functional Tight-Binding is now
published in the Journal of Chemical Physics. First first-author-paper ✔
02/2016
Observing molecular machines in action. We teamed up with our friends from E20 at the Physics Department to describe Bisphenol A self-assembling into a unimolecular network of molecular rotors in
Nano Letters. First publication ✔