Group Leader
Kasper is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, and the group leader of the computational materials chemistry group.
Kasper received his PhD from Aarhus University in 2020 after which he was a postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College London from 2021 to 2023.
Kasper's research interests revolve around entropy, disorder and temperature effects in functional materials, and how we can model these with quantum chemistry and machine learning methods.
Outside work Kasper enjoys football, going to the gym and exploring the culinary scene.
Postdocs
Jiban received his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2020. Then he was a postdoctoral fellow at DTU, Denmark from 2020-2024. There he mainly worked on computational design of photovoltaic semiconductors, point defects and nonradiative carrier recombination.
His current research work involves designing point defects in disordered materials for solid state electrolytes, studying effects of disorder on phase transition and response properties, using first principles calculations and machine learning force fields.
Outside work Jiban likes football, cricket, Bengali fiction, and good food.
PhD Students
Timothée started his PhD in September 2024 and is the first PhD student in the computational materials chemistry group. He received his M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics from University of Bordeaux, France, in 2024, which included an external stay at NIMS in Japan.
Timothée works on developing machine learning force fields for solid electrolytes to uncover the fundamentals of superionic conductivity and design novel sold electrolytes.
Outside wok Timothée enjoys video-games, writing, mangas, anime and good food.
Kaihong started his PhD in September 2025. He received his M.Sc. in chemistry from Emory University, U.S., in 2024, where he worked on the vibrational strong coupling effect on chemical equilibria.
Kaihong’s current work involves developing models to efficiently include entropic effects, particularly configurational entropy, in computational materials design, targeted towards designing novel solid electrolytes.
Outside work, Kaihong likes spending time with his cat and watching independent films.