People

Morten is the group leader and Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Bioscience at Aalborg University, Denmark. He received his PhD degree in materials chemistry from the same university in 2011, and worked as a research scientist at Corning Inc. from 2011 to 2012. His current research focuses on the structure and mechanical properties of disordered materials. He is an editor of Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. Morten has ten patent applications (five granted) and over 200 journal articles. He received an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2022 and is a fellow of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences and Danish Academy of Natural Sciences. His awards include Vittorio Gottardi Prize, Sir Alastair Pilkington Award, Grundfos Prize, and Best PhD Award from the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences.

Employment: 2020-present Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark; 2016-2020 Professor MSO, Aalborg University, Denmark; 2012-2016 Associate Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark; 2011-2012 Research Scientist, Corning Incorporated, USA

Education: 2008-2011 Ph.D. in Chemistry of Materials, Aalborg University, Denmark; 2003-2008 M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, Aalborg University, Denmark

External stays: 2010 (oct-dec) w/ Prof. John Wang, National University of Singapore, Singapore; 2010 (feb-may) w/ Prof. Jianrong Qiu, Zhejiang University, China; 2007 (sep-dec) w/ Prof. Joachim Deubener, TU Clausthal, Germany

Current Group Members

Michelle is employed as a laboratory technician at the Section of Chemical Science and Engineering. She supports the group's lab research activities.

Søren obtained a B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from Aalborg University in 2017. Afterwards he did his 4+4 Ph.D. study in our group, focusing on structure and thermal conductivity. He was then employed as postdoc in the group and since September 2023 as assistant professor, focusing on the structure and mechanical properties of glassy electrolytes. 

Sudheer has a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Erlangen (Germany) in 2022. Since December 2022 he has been employed as a postdoc, working on the structure prediction in oxide glasses using molecular dynamics and machine learning methods.

Xuan has a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) in 2021. He is now working as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow on structure and relaxation using diffraction and molecular dynamics methods .

M. Mohan Babu

Postdoc

mmba@bio.aau.dk 

Mohan has a Ph.D. degree in Physics from National Institute of Technology Warangal (India) in 2020. He is now working as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow on optimizing hybrid glasses for drug delivery.

Jonas A. Finkler

Postdoc

jaf@bio.aau.dk 

Jonas has a Ph.D. degree in Computational Physics from University of Basel (Switzerland) in 2022. Since April 2024 he is employed as a postdoc, working on inverse design of disordered materials.

Samraj Mollick

Postdoc

samrajm@bio.aau.dk 

Samraj has a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in 2020 and previously been postdoc at University of Oxford (UK) from 2021-2024. He is now working as a postdoc on self-healing hybrid glasses.

Johan obtained a B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from Aalborg University in 2018. In September 2019, he started a four-year combined M.Sc. and Ph.D. study (4+4 PhD Programme). The focus is on the intrinsic and extrinsic toughening of oxide glasses, including both experimental and computational studies. 

Ph.D. student

ejped@bio.aau.dk 

Elsebeth obtained a B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from Aalborg University in 2019. In September 2020, she started a four-year combined M.Sc. and Ph.D. study (4+4 PhD Programme). The focus is on understanding the effect of surface hydration on crack initiation using a combination of experiments and simulations. 

Zhimin obtained a M.Sc. degree in Material Engineering from Beijing University of Chemical Technology (China) in 2021. In October 2021, he started a three-year Ph.D. study funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC). He will work on mechanical properties of glassy electrolytes. 

Daming obtained a M.Sc. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University (China) in 2021. In October 2021, he started a three-year Ph.D. study funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC). He will work on mechanical properties of transparent glass-ceramics. 

Rasmus obtained a M.Sc. degree in Chemistry in 2020. Afterwards he worked as a research assistant in our group. Since August 2022 he has been a Ph.D. student funded by the Danish Data Science Academy. He will develop methods for the computational design of disordered electrode materials for batteries.

Ph.D. student

arli@bio.aau.dk

Anders obtained a B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Aalborg University in 2021. In September 2022, he started a four-year combined M.Sc. and Ph.D. study (4+4 PhD Programme). The focus is on developing tools within topological data analysis to understand nanoporosity of disordered materials

Amir obtained a M.Sc. degree in Petroleum Engineering from Petroleum University of Technology (Iran) in 2021. In September 2022, he started a three-year Ph.D. study, focusing on medium-range structure of oxide glasses

Menghan obtained a M.Sc. degree in Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University (China) in 2022. In December 2022, she started a three-year Ph.D. study funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC). She will explore the cracking mechanism in heterogeneous glasses.

Faizal obtained a M.S. degree in Materials Science from IIT Kharagpur (India) in 2022. In January 2023, he started a three-year Ph.D. study funded by the ESS-lighthouse SOLID. He will be studying oxide glass fracture using diffraction and imaging methods.

Fengming obtained a M.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering and Technology from Shanghai University (China) in 2022. In January 2023, he started a three-year Ph.D. study funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC). His research focus in on modification of hybrid glasses.

Xiaoyi Xu

Ph.D. student

xiaoyixu@bio.aau.dk 

Xiaoyi obtained a M.Sc. degree in Material and Science Engineering and Technology from Arizona State University (USA) in 2017. In September 2023, she started a three-year Ph.D. study related to the study of metal-organic framework glasses using atomistic simulations.

Sidsel M. Johansen

Ph.D. student

sidselmj@bio.aau.dk

Sidsel obtained a B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from Aalborg University in 2022. In September 2023, she started a four-year combined M.Sc. and Ph.D. study (4+4 PhD Programme). The focus of her project is the mechanical characterization of oxide glasses. 

Anders K. R. Christensen

Ph.D. student

akrc@bio.aau.dk 

Anders obtained a B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from Aalborg University in 2022. In September 2023, he started a four-year combined M.Sc. and Ph.D. study (4+4 PhD Programme). The focus is on predicting the short-range structure of multicomponent oxide glasses. 

Anders M. Schade

Ph.D. student

andersms@bio.aau.dk 

Anders obtained a B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Aalborg University in 2023. In November 2023, he started as an Industrial PhD student in collaboration with PanzerGlass. He will work on the development and testing of flexible screen protectors.

Lillanee Josefine Christensen

M.Sc. student

ljch19@student.aau.dk 

Josefine started her M.Sc. thesis study in September 2023. The focus is on structure and mechanical properties of hydrated oxide glasses.

Frederik Phophon Gyldenløv

M.Sc. student

fgylde19@student.aau.dk 

Frederik started his M.Sc. thesis study in September 2023. The focus is on structure and mechanical properties of hydrated oxide glasses.

Former Group Members

Postdocs

2022-2024 Junwei Ding LinkedIn

2020-2024 Tao Du

2020-2022 Qi Zhang LinkedIn

2019-2022 Theany To LinkedIn

2015-2018 Nerea Mascaraque LinkedIn

2015-2017 Saurabh Kapoor LinkedIn

Research assistants

2020-2022 Rasmus Christensen LinkedIn

2019 Martin B. Østergaard LinkedIn

2018 Søren R. Hansen LinkedIn

2015 Gabriel Beno LinkedIn

Ph.D. students

2019-2022 Wei Fan LinkedIn

2019-2022 Xiangting Ren

2018-2022 Søren S. Sørensen LinkedIn

2018-2021 Pengfei Liu LinkedIn

2017-2021 Mikkel L. Bødker LinkedIn

2016-2019 Kacper Januchta LinkedIn

2015-2018 Tobias K. Bechgaard LinkedIn

2014-2017 G. Laura Paraschiv LinkedIn

2013-2016 Mouritz N. Svenson LinkedIn

M.Sc. students

2022-2023 Katrine M. Enevoldsen LinkedIn

2022-2023 Bodil A. Hansen LinkedIn

2022-2023 Andreas Leegaard LinkedIn

2022-2023 Anders M. Schade LinkedIn

2021-2022 Barbara Ballarini LinkedIn

2021-2022 Lise D. Andersen LinkedIn

2021-2022 Eduardo V. A. Alvarez

2021-2022 Nanna H. Hjarsen LinkedIn

2021-2022 Ingrid A. A. van Lankveld LinkedIn

2021-2022 Martin S. Poulsen LinkedIn

2020-2021 Christian Gamst LinkedIn

2020-2021 Sofia Christensen LinkedIn

2020-2021 Malthe H. Andersen LinkedIn

2020-2021 Jeanette Elian LinkedIn

2020-2021 Christoffer R. Pedersen LinkedIn

2019-2020 Rasmus Christensen LinkedIn

2019-2020 Johan B. Pedersen LinkedIn

2018-2019 Andreas L. S. Søndergaard LinkedIn

2018-2019 Jens R. K. Damgaard LinkedIn

2017-2018 Søren R. Hansen LinkedIn

2016-2017 Kristine F. Frederiksen LinkedIn

2015-2016 Kacper Januchta LinkedIn

2014-2015 Tobias K. Bechgaard LinkedIn

2014-2015 Martin B. Østergaard LinkedIn

Guests

Visiting M.Sc. and Ph.D. students

2022-2024 Chengyang Yuan (Dalian University of Technology, China) 

2022-2023 Shunta Sasaki (Hirosaki University, Japan)

2022 Ayoub Traverson (ENS Paris Saclay, France)

2022 Muawiyah Dafir (TU Chamnitz, Germany)

2021-2022 Yongbao Xiao (South China University of Technology, China)

2017 Hamid Hassani (University of Trento, Italy)

2013-2015 Maryam M. Sebdani (Isfahan University of Technology, Iran)