CRC/TRR 247
At the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Ruhr-University Bochum.
With Participation of: Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, and Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Principal Investigator Rossitza Pentcheva
Prof. Dr. Rossitza Pentcheva
Phone: +49 203 379-2238
E-Mail
Computational Materials Physics
Faculty of Physics
University of Duisburg-Essen
Project Area BB4: Theoretical Understanding and Trends in Reactivity of Transition Metal Oxides: Role of Structural Patterns and Control of Electronic State
Project B4 will provide theoretical understanding and identify trends in the catalytic activity within a series of transition metal oxides as a function of structural motifs, chemical composition, surface morphology and imperfections based on density functional theory calculations.
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Curriculum Vitae
Professional career
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Since 2014 |
W2-Professor in Theoretical Physics at the University of Duisburg-Essen |
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2013-2014 |
Associate Professor, University of Munich |
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2007,2010 |
Visiting scientist at KITP, UC Santa Barbara |
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2006-2012 |
Assistant Professor, University of Munich |
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2005 |
Visiting scientist at UC Davis |
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2003-2004 |
Postdoctoral Research Associate LMU Munich |
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2000-2002 |
Postdoctoral researcher at Fritz-Haber Institute of the MPG |
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1997-2000 |
Scientific co-worker in course of doctoral studies at Fritz-Haber Institute of the MPG |
Scientific education and dregrees
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2008 |
Habilitation in Materials Science at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany |
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2000 |
Doctoral degree from the Free University Berlin |
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Doctorate studies at the Fritz-Haber-Insititute of the Max-Planck Society and the Free University Berlin, Germany (Prof. M. Scheffler) |
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1996 |
Diploma degree from the University of Cologne and Research Center Jülich (Prof. Dr. S. Blügel) |
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1991-1996 |
Studies of physics at University of Cologne and Research Center Jülich |
Awards and Scholarships
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1997 |
DAAD-Prize for foreign students of the University of Cologne |
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1991-1992 |
DAAD Fellowship at the University of Cologne |
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2007-2012 |
LMU Mentoring for outstanding young female scientists |
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2009 |
Therese von Bayern Prize of the LMU Munich |
Positions and functions
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2010‑present |
steering committee, DFG Collaborative Research Centre CRC/TR80 “From electronic correlations to functionality” |
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2015‑present |
Steering committee Center of Computational Science and Simulation, UDE |
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2015‑present |
Scientific board Materials Chain, University Alliance Ruhr |
Selected Publications
- M. Lorenz, M. S. Ramachandra Rao, T. Venkatesan, E. Fortunato, P. Barquinha, R. Branquinho, D. Salgueiro, R. Martins, E. Carlos, A. Liu, F. K. Shan, M. Grundmann, H. Boschker, J. Mukherjee, M. Priyadarshini, N. DasGupta, D. J. Rogers, F. H. Teherani, E. V. Sandana, P. Bove, K. Rietwyk, A. Zaban, A. Veziridis, A. Weidenkaff, M. Muralidhar, M. Murakami, S. Abel, J. Fompeyrine, J. Zuniga-Perez, R. Ramesh, N. A. Spaldin, S. Ostanin, V. Borisov, I. Mertig, V. Lazenka, G. Srinivasan, W. Prellier, M. Uchida, M. Kawasaki, R. Pentcheva, P. Gegenwart, F. Miletto Granozio, J. Fontcuberta and N. Pryds, The 2016 oxide electronic materials and oxide interfaces roadmap, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 49, 433001 (2016).
- K. Chakrapani, G. Bendt, H. Hajiyani, I. Schwarzrock, T. Lunkenbein, S. Salamon, J. Landers, H. Wende, R. Schlögl, R. Pentcheva, M. Behrens, S. Schulz, Role of Composition and Size of Cobalt Ferrite Nanocrystals in the Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Chem Cat. Chem. 9, 2988-2995 (2017).
- B. Geisler, A. Blanca-Romero, R. Pentcheva, Design of n- and p-type oxide thermoelectrics in LaNiO3/SrTiO3(001) superlattices exploiting interface polarity, Phys. Rev. B 95, 125301 (2017).
- S. Middey, D. Meyers, D. Doennig, M. Kareev, X. Liu, Y. Cao, Zhenzhong Yang, Jinan Shi, Lin Gu, P. J. Ryan, R. Pentcheva, J. W. Freeland, and J. Chakhalian, Mott Electrons in an Artificial Graphenelike Crystal of Rare-Earth Nickelate, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 056801 (2016).
- M. E. Gruner, U. Eckern and R. Pentcheva, Impact of strain-induced electronic topological transition on the thermoelectric properties of PtCoO2 and PdCoO2, Phys. Rev. B 92, 235140 (2015)
- H. Guo, S. Gangopadhyay, O. Köksal, R. Pentcheva, and W. E. Pickett, Wide gap Chern Mott insulating phases achieved by design, npj Quantum Materials 2, 4 (2017).
- D. Doennig, W.E. Pickett, R. Pentcheva, Confinement-driven transitions between topological and Mott phases in (LaNiO3)N/(LaAlO3) M (111) superlattices, Phys. Rev. B 89, 121110(R) (2014).
- E. Lesné, N. Reyren, D. Doennig, R. Mattana, F. Choueikani, H. Jaffrès, V. Cros, F. Petroff, P. Ohresser, R. Pentcheva, A. Barthélémy, M. Bibes, Suppression of the Critical Thickness Threshold for Conductivity at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interface, Nature Commun. 5, 4291 (2014).
- D. Doennig, W.E. Pickett and R. Pentcheva, Massive symmetry breaking in LaAlO3/SrTiO3(111) quantum wells: a three-orbital, strongly correlated generalization of graphene, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 126804 (2013).
- R. Pentcheva, M. Huijben, K. Otte, W.E. Pickett, J.E. Kleibeuker, J. Huijben, H. Boschker, D. Kockmann, W. Siemons, G. Koster, H.J.W. Zandvliet, G. Rijnders, D.H.A. Blank, H. Hilgenkamp and A. Brinkman, Parallel electron-hole bilayer conductivity from electronic interface reconstruction, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 166804 (2010).