Alexandre Tkatchenko (physicist)

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Alexandre Tkatchenko
Alma mater Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsIntermolecular interactions, chemical physics, materials physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Luxembourg, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin

Alexandre Tkatchenko is a physicist at the University of Luxembourg who works in intermolecular interactions, [1] chemical physics, [2] and materials physics. He serves as Head of the Department of Physics and Materials Science. Tkatchenko is a 2019 recipient of an American Physical Society Fellowship, in the Division of Computational Physics, cited "For the development of a novel framework for modeling and understanding van der Waals interactions in molecules and materials". [3]

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Education

Tkatchenko earned a bachelor's degree in computer science, and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. [4] From 2008−2010, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, [5] where he led an independent research group from 2011–2016. [6]

Tkatchenko serves on the editorial boards of Physical Review Letters (APS) and Science Advances (AAAS). [6] He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2019, and has earned the 2020 Dirac Medal [7] from the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists, the 2011 Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award of the German Physical Society, [8] and grants from the European Research Council: a Starting Grant in 2011, [9] a Consolidator Grant in 2017, [10] a Proof of Concept Grant for his project MACHINE-DRUG, [11] and an ERC Advanced Grant on Quantum Materials in 2022. [12]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Tkatchenko, Alexandre; Scheffler, Matthias (2009-02-20). "Accurate Molecular Van Der Waals Interactions from Ground-State Electron Density and Free-Atom Reference Data". Physical Review Letters. 102 (7). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.073005 . ISSN   0031-9007. Archived from the original on 2025-12-30. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  2. ↑ "Theoretical Chemical Physics". tcpunilu.com. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  3. ↑ "APS Fellowship recipients". APS Fellows Archive. 2019. Retrieved 23 Jan 2019.
  4. ↑ "Alexandre TKATCHENKO - CV". FSTM EN. Retrieved 2026-01-25.
  5. ↑ "Awards - Surface Science | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 2026-01-25.
  6. 1 2 "Alexandre Tkatchenko Biography, ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2026-01-24.
  7. ↑ "Dirac - medal". www.watoc.net. Retrieved 2026-01-25.
  8. ↑ Wegkamp, Daniel. "Department of Physical Chemistry - FHI Berlin - MPG" . Retrieved 2026-01-25.
  9. ↑ "ERC Starting Grants 2011 Results" (PDF). p. 5.
  10. ↑ "Uni.lu Professor Awarded ERC Grant to Develop Chemical Discovery Platform". Chronicle.lu. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  11. ↑ "ERC Grant for Prof. Tkatchenko to speed up drug development with AI". UNI EN. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  12. ↑ "ERC Advanced Grant on Quantum Materials for Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko". UNI EN. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
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