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Dr. Tobias Dornheim will be funded by the prestigious Heisenberg Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG) from October. The head of the junior research group “Frontiers of Computational Quantum Many-Body Theory” at the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS) at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) will thus be able to seamlessly continue and expand his research in the field of warm dense matter. Dornheim will take up his Heisenberg position in October. He will then change institutes within the HZDR: from CASUS to the Institute of Radiation Physics. There he is taking over the leadership of the High Energy Density department.
With regard to Dornheim’s project proposal “Unraveling warm dense matter: from theory to experiment”, the reviewers highlighted the outstanding scientific contributions that Dornheim has made as a doctoral student, research assistant and junior research group leader. The trained physicist received his doctorate from Kiel University in 2018. One year later, he joined CASUS, where he was appointed head of a junior research group at the beginning of 2022. His team now includes eight members in addition to himself. The impressive size of the junior research group is also due to Dornheim’s success in acquiring research funding. Of particular note here is the “ERC Starting Grant”, the prestigious starting grant from the European Research Council. He received this funding in 2022 for his submitted proposal to develop a reliable theoretical description of warm dense matter using machine learning methods. In recognition of his contributions to establish CASUS in the national and international scientific community, Tobias Dornheim will, at the suggestion of CASUS Director Prof. Thomas D. Kühne, join the ranks of distinguished faculty members and thus remain associated with CASUS in the future.
Through the Heisenberg Programme, the DFG funds outstanding researchers so that they can continue their high-profile projects in Germany. At the time of applying for admission to the program, all requirements for a permanent professorship should be met. In addition, you should have achieved these requirements within a short period of time. Heisenberg funding runs for a maximum of five years. However, it usually ends earlier because the beneficiary is appointed as a professor with their own chair at a college or university.
Between 50 and 100 people are accepted onto the program each year, although in recent years the figure has mostly been in the region of 70 to 80 people. The selective nature of this funding program is also reflected in the funding rate: despite the high requirements, only four out of ten applications were successful in 2022, for example. Dornheim’s success is also something special for the HZDR: it is the first time that someone at the center will be funded through the Heisenberg Programme.
Dr. Tobias Dornheim | Young Investigator Group Leader
Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS) at HZDR
Email: t.dornheim@hzdr.de
https://www.casus.science/?page_id=16758
Dr. Tobias Dornheim
Source: A. Garbe
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