Presenter

Jan Janssen is the group leader for Materials Informatics at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials. His group focuses on applying methods from computer science including machine learning to discover novel sustainable materials with applications ranging from machine-learned interatomic potentials to large language model agents for atomistic simulation. Previously, Jan was a director’s postdoctoral fellow in the T-division at Los Alamos National Laboratory as part of the Exascale Computing Project as well as an invited postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago and the University of California Los Angeles. Besides his research work, Jan is the lead developer of the pyiron atomistic simulation suite, maintains over 1000 open-source materials informatics software packages for the conda-forge community and is a regular contributor to open-source software on Github.