Hans-christian Weissker

Activity

Keywords: Ab initio calculations; DFT & TDDFT; optical properties; metal clusters; nanostructures

Thèmes

• Physics of nanostructures
• Solid-state physics – interface theory-experiment
• Electronic structure and excitations – optical and electronic properties, inelastic x-ray scattering
• Ab initio calculations: Density-Functional Theory (DFT) and Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory (TDDFT)

Recherche

Present research

• Optical properties of physically made metal nanoparticles, free-standing and embedded; tuning of the localized surface-plasmon resonances
• Chemically made metal clusters, ligand-core interaction
• Nanoalloys

Previous research topics

• Free and embedded semiconductor nanocrystals
• Combination (TD)DFT and molecular dynamics: temperature effects

Parcours

Administrative Positions

• Steering Committee member (elected) of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (etsf.eu)
• Steering Committe member of the GDR REST (REncontres de Spectroscopie Théorique)
• Member (elected) of the « conseil du centre » of the CINAM

Teaching 

• Course Modern Density-Functional Theory Applied to Solids and Nanostructures of the Collège Doctoral at Aix-Marseille University

Parcours

• Chargé de recherche (CR1, then CRN) at CNRS since 10/2010
• 10/2008 – 05/2010 Post-doc at Laboratoire de physique des interfaces et couches minces (LPICM) at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
• 11/2004 – 09/2008 Post-doc at Laboratoire des solides irradiés (LSI) at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
• 10/2004 PhD at University of Jena, Allemagne