Payam Kaghazchi

Payam Kaghazchi studied Physics at the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate there in 2009. He conducted his doctoral research at the theory department of Fritz Haber Institute with a DAAD scholarship. After two years working as a research assistant at the University of Ulm, he received a grant from the German Ministry of Education and. Research to establish an independent junior research group at University of Ulm and later at Free University until 2018. Since then, he is the head of modeling team at the institute of IEK-1 in Jülich Research Center in Germany. He has been recently appointed as a tenure track associate professor in the IMS department of University of Twente. His research has focused on developing and applying quantum-mechanics-based computational approaches to simulate anddesign materials for energy storage and conversion systems. He has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals (including Advanced Energy Materials, Energy & Environmental Science, Materials Today, and Nature Energy).