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Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Department of Complex Systems Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University

Development of machine-learning coarse-grained representations of polymer adsorption films.

• Coarse graining
• Machine learning
• Molecular dynamics

Co-founder (part-time)

Surface Design Solutions, remote

Co-founder and CTO of Start Up Surface Design Solutions

• ML Ops
• DevOps
• Customer support

Data Steward

livMatS Cluster of Excellence, University of Freiburg, Germany

Development and implementation of Research Data Management (RDM) policy. Development and provision of RDM tooling.

• RDM policy
• DMP review
• dtool & dserver development

Parental Leave

• Time management
• Leadership

Scientific staff

Scientific staff in simulation group with various teaching and research duties.

• Teaching
• Supervision
• Grant proposal writing
• Public speaking
• International collaboration
• DFT simulations
• MD simulations

Examiner (repeated assignments of 2 to 4 months each, 11 months in total)

Academic evaluation center, a joint institution of the German Embassy’s cultural department and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Beijing China

Conducting interviews for plausibility verification of academic records.

• Motivational interviewing
• Conversation planning and management

German Teacher (part-time)

University-affiliated language centers at Beijing Language and Culture University and Peking University, Beijing, China

Teaching preparatory courses for academic studies in Germany.

• Teaching German as a foreign language
• Lecturing

Working Holiday

Australia

Various jobs in meat processing and hotel industry.

• Flexibility
• Adaptability
• Communication

Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat.)

Simulation, Dept. of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg

Microsystems Engineering

• Dissertation: Friction of Adsorption Films with Reproducible Molecular Dynamics

Double Degree Master Program between Tsinghua University and TU Berlin

Tsinghua University

Mechanical Engineering / Engineering Science

• Master thesis (grade 1.3, German scale): Computational Multiscale Modeling of the Bipolar Electrochemical Process

DAAD Annual Scholarship for Exchange Studies

Tsinghua University

Mechanical Engineering

Master of Science (M. Sc.)

Technische Universität Berlin

Engineering Science

• Mechatronics
• Numerics & Simulation

DAAD Annual Scholarship for Language Studies / Huayu Enrichment Scholarship

National Sun Yat-Sen University

Chinese language

ERASMUS Exchange

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Physics

Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.)

Freie Universität Berlin

Physics

• Bachelor thesis (grade 1.0, German scale): Large Scale Parallel Simulation of EPR Lineshape Spectra

Abitur

Campe Gymnasium Holzminden

• Mathematics
• Latin
• Physics
• Politics

Fugaku Junior Researchers (Small-Scale) Project

RIKEN R-CCS

PI. 432,000 node-hours on Fugaku supercomputer. Project: The Influence of Molecular Design on Tribological Performance on the Nanoscale.

NINS RCCS Category A Project

National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), Research Center for Computational Science (RCCS)

PI. 80,000 CPU points on RCCS Okazaki cluster. Project: Sequence-Dependent Friction of Adsorbed Polymers: A MD Study of Polyalkylmethacrylate Lubricant Additives.

Joint Research Advancement Program (JRAP) 2026–2027

Nagoya University – University of Freiburg

Co-applicant. Project: Integrated Multiscale Modelling and Experimental Study toward Optimal Design of Polymeric Friction Modifiers for Rough-Surface Lubrication.

Trinational KTUR Summer School Entrepreneurship: Best Project Award

6th World Tribology Congress: Best Poster Award

DAAD Annual Scholarship for Exchange Studies

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

studies at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

DAAD Annual Scholarship for Language Studies / Huayu Enrichment Scholarship

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Ministry of Education, Taiwan

language studies at National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Friction-Assisted Electrochemical Oxidation of Iridium Surfaces for Enhanced Catalysis

Materials Horizons

Friction-assisted electrochemical oxidation of iridium surfaces; tribochemistry at the electrified interface.

Friction of adsorption films with reproducible molecular dynamics

University of Freiburg

Cumulative PhD dissertation.

dtool and dserver: A flexible ecosystem for findable data

PLOS ONE

The dtool ecosystem bridges the gap between standardisation-free data management by individuals and FAIR platform solutions with rigid metadata requirements.

matscipy: materials science at the atomic scale with Python

Journal of Open Source Software

matscipy implements such tools for applications in materials science, including fracture, plasticity, tribology and electrochemistry.

Molecular simulations of sliding on SDS surfactant films

The Journal of Chemical Physics

We use molecular dynamics simulations to study the frictional response of monolayers of the anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate and hemicylindrical aggregates physisorbed on gold.

Molecular Simulations of Electrotunable Lubrication: Viscosity and Wall Slip in Aqueous Electrolytes

Tribology Letters

We study the frictional response of water-lubricated gold electrodes subject to an electrostatic potential difference using molecular dynamics simulations.