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Professor Angel Rubio, the managing director of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg, is to receive the German Physical Society’s Max Born Prize 2018.
The Society (the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, or DPG) is honouring Prof Rubio, who is the head of the MPSD’s Theory Department, for his leading role in computer-based condensed matter physics and his predictions on the properties of matter in low dimensions.
In its citation, the DPG describes Prof Rubio’s work in the fields of carbon-based nanotubes and nanoscale science as “outstanding”. It also praises his publications in a wide range of areas, from cluster theory to complex materials and chromophores in biological systems.
The Society further highlight’s Rubio’s work on the open source project Octopus, which facilitates research on excited electron ion states. “Angel Rubio has made computer code for research on density functional theory widely accessible,” says the DPG. The award ceremony is due to take place in London next year.
Further information available from Jenny Witt, MPSD press and PR: +49 40 8998 6593 / J
jenny.witt@mpsd.mpg.de
http://www.dpg-physik.de/preise/preistraeger2018.html
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