WELCOME TO THE OLSSON MATERIALS MODELLING GROUP
The Materials Theory and Modelling group, led by Associate Professor Dr Emilia Olsson, researches how real materials - disordered, defective, and structurally heterogeneous - acquire their function from the atomic scale. We combine first-principles electronic structure theory, atomistic simulation, and statistical modelling to understand how local environments, charge localisation, and interface shape electronic, ionic, and structural response.
Our group is part of the Materials Department at the Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (ARCNL) and the Condensed Matter Theory group at the Institute of Theoretical Physics University of Amsterdam.
DISORDER-AWARE MATERIALS DESIGN
The need for sustainable and high performing materials is ever increasing. Moving away from a fossil fuel fueled economy requires new green technologies and materials, meeting the future compute demands require atomic scale control of charge and trapping, and the technologies of the future requires us to push materials to the extremes. Materials design plays a pivotal role in this transition, and the future technologies cannot be realised without efficient materials. A key challenge lies in uniting atomic scale theory and experimental phenomena. Using computational materials modelling, we study the smallest building blocks making up these next generation technologies with a particular focus on the role of disorder.
