Prof. Dr. Alexandre Tkatchenko
Prof. Dr. Alexandre Tkatchenko
Fellow
Alexandre Tkatchenko is a Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Luxembourg. He is also Head of the Department of Physics and Materials Science and Head of the Theoretical Chemical Physics group.
His research pushes the boundaries of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and machine learning to develop efficient methods to enable accurate modeling and new insights into complex materials. Tkatchenko has given more than 230 invited talks, seminars and colloquia worldwide, published more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals (h-index=58), and serves on the editorial boards of Physical Review Letters (APS) and Science Advances (AAAS).
Alexandre Tkatchenko has received a number of awards, including elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2019, the 2020 Dirac Medal from the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists and the 2011 Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award of the German Physical Society. He has also received five flagship grants from the European Research Council (ERC): a Starting Grant in 2011, a Consolidator Grant in 2017 (BeStMo), a Proof of Concept Grant in 2021 (Chemical Space Machine), an Advanced Grant in 2022 (FITMOL), a Proof of Concept Grant in 2023 (MACHINE-DRUG).