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Group leader

Juniorprof. Dr. Julia Westermayr

Juniorprof. Dr. Julia Westermayr

Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie der Universität Leipzig
Theoretische Chemie des Materialdesign
Philipp-Rosenthal-Straße 31, Raum E-047
Linnestr. 2

04103 Leipzig

Telephone: +49 341 97-36404

Education and Professional Experience

Feb. 2023                          Associated Member of Scads.AI Dresden/Leipzig
Oct. 2022Assistant Professor “Artificial Intelligence in Theoretical Chemistry”, University of Leipzig (Tenure Track)
Oct. 2020 – Sep. 2022Erwin-Schrödinger (FWF) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Warwick (Host: Prof. R. J. Maurer), funding: FWF [J 4522N]
Sep. 2019 – Sep. 2020Associated PhD student: MolTag, PhD/doctoral program in pharmaceutical sciences, funding: FWF [W 1232]
Oct. 2017 – Sep. 2020 PhD thesis, University of Vienna, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry Supervisors: Priv.-Doz. Philipp Marquetand, Univ.-Prof. Leticia González Title: “Machine Learning for Excited-State Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, funding: uni:docs (grade:[1] 1.0)    
Aug. 2016 – April 2017Master thesis, University of Vienna, Institute of Analytical Chemistry; Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. P. Lieberzeit, funding: EU-FP7 ISIS (grade:1 1.0)
Nov. 2015 – April 2017  Master program “Chemistry”, University of Vienna (grade:1 1.0)
Oct. 2012 – Nov. 2015 Bachelor program “Chemistry”, University of Vienna (grade:1 1.9)

              

Grants, Prizes, and Funding

2023GSO* Leadership academy fellow
2022Bank Austria Forschungspreis 2022 (Anerkennungspreis)
26 June – 01 July 2022Participation in the 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings 2022
Sept. 2021Sigrid-Peyerimhoff Promotionspreis: PhD thesis award
2021 – 2022FWF Schrödinger fellowship (J-4522N): 3-year funding (173,290 €)
2019/2020/2021           Merit scholarship of the University of Vienna
Oct. 2019NVIDIA Hardware Grant (due to publication 10.1039/C9SC01742A)
May 2019HPC-Europa3 funding for transnational access visits to HPC centres
Oct. 2017 – Sep. 2020Uni:docs fellowship (University of Vienna) to fund PhD thesis

 

Publication Track Record

20 publications in peer-reviewed journals (published/accepted), 3 book chapters (14 as first author, 3 as corresponding author). Among them: Nat. Chem. (1), Nat. Comp. Sci. (1), Chem. Sci. (2), Chem. Rev. (1), J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (3), Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. (2)

Presentation Track Record

46 invitations and 8 contributed talks at international conferences or (university) seminars.

Among them: GRC (2022), Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings (2022), IPAM (2022), STC (2024, 2021, 2018), IWOM (2021, prize for best lightning talk), VISTA Webinar (2021), DBG (2021)

4 poster presentations: STC (2019), ISTCP-X (2019, best poster award), CECAM (2018), GRC (2018)

 

Scientific Conference Organization, Public Outreach, and Training

3 conference/workshop organizations: CECAM Workshop 2023, CECAM School 2022, DQML22

Servus TV shoot for P.M. Wissen about why the sun is bleaching, broadcasted Aug. 2020/2021/2022

Training: Mentoring and coaching, project management, recruiting (incl. unconscious bias and EDI)

Secretariat

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Sandy Ehlers

Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institut
Linnéstraße 2, Raum 2.17

04103 Leipzig

Doctoral candidates

 Rhyan Barrett

Rhyan Barrett

Philipp-Rosenthal-Straße 31, Room 151
Leipzig 04103

 Toni Oestereich

Toni Oestereich

Philipp-Rosenthal-Straße 31, Room 151
04103 Leipzig

 Robin Curth

Robin Curth

Philipp-Rosenthal-Straße 31, Room 046
04103 Leipzig

 Daniel Bitterlich

Daniel Bitterlich

Philipp-Rosenthal-Straße 31, Room 046
04103 Leipzig

 Peter Fichtelmann

Peter Fichtelmann

Philipp-Rosenthal-Straße 31, Room 046
04103 Leipzig

 Alexander Feige

Alexander Feige

Philipp-Rosenthal-Straße 31, Room 151
04103 Leipzig

Master students

 Marc Hanisch

Marc Hanisch

Masterand

Bachelor students and research interns

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Helene Laur (left), Fahim Ahmad (middle), Lea Löwenthal (right)