Johannes Voss is staff scientist at the
SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis
at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
He leads the SUNCAT group on electronic structure methods. The group develops reliable exchange-correlation functionals for computational surface science and efficient beyond density functional theory approaches. The scope of these developments is an improved computational description of materials properties with an emphasis on materials for energy conversion and storage.
Within the Ultrafast Catalysis FWP at SLAC, he leads the efforts of X-ray spectra simulations for understanding of ultrafast surface chemistry as observed using free-electron lasers.
PhD in Physics, 2009
Technical University of Denmark
Diploma (MSc) in Physics, 2004
University of Hamburg
Intm. Diploma (BSc) in Physics, 2001
University of Hamburg
Simulating and understanding charge transfer and ultrashort-lived excitations in surface femtochemistry.
Development of exchange-correlation functionals with improved description of bulk thermodynamics and surface reaction energetics.
Modeling of solid-state electrolyte and inter-phase stabilities and charge double layers at electrode interfaces for potential all-solid-state Li-ion batteries.
Method development and computational search for new perovskite structure light absorbers for use in solar cells or as water-splitting photocatalysts.
Ab initio-based design of new stable materials with high thermionic emission currents for use as energy converters or cathodes.
Simulation of ionic diffusion in energy storage materials and efficient calculation of phonon free energies for materials stability predictions.
Johannes Voss is regular guest lecturer at Stanford in electronic structure and heterogeneous catalysis classes (CHEMENG-444-01/ENERGY-256-01 and CHEMENG 142/242).
Topics covered include the basics of density functional theory & beyond and how this method can be applied to predict reaction rates, thermodynamic stabilities, and other materials properties.
For information on the accompanying exercises see the TA-maintained website http://chemeng444.github.io (initiated by Charlie Tsai).