Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics with distinction, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (2020); Advisor: Claudia Draxl
M.Sc. in Physics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2016); Advisors: Claudia Draxl, Caterina Cocchi
B. Sc. in Physics and Math, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2013)
Professional Affiliations
Member of the American Physical Society (APS)
Member of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)
Areas of Interest
Neutral electronic excitations in Solids
Many-body perturbation theory
Method Development
Experience
2021-Present: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago
2020 Guest Scientist in the group of Claudia Draxl, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2016-2020: Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Publications
Sebastian Kokott, Iker Hurtado, Christian Vorwerk, Claudia Draxl, Volker Blum, and Matthias
Scheffler GIMS: Graphical Interface for Material Simulations Journal of Open Source Software 6 (57), 2767 (2021)
Christian Vorwerk, Francesco Sottile, and Claudia Draxl Excitation Pathways in Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering of Solids Phys. Rev. Research 2, 042003(R) (2020)
Jack E. N. Swallow, Christian Vorwerk, Piero Mazzolini, Patrick Vogt, Oliver Bierwagen, Alexander Karg, Martin Eickhoff, Jörg Schörmann, Markus R. Wagner, Joseph W. Roberts, Paul R. Chalker, Matthew J. Smiles, Philip Murgatroyd, Sara A. Razek, Zachary W. Lebens-Higgins, Louis F. J. Piper, Leanne A. H. Jones, Pardeep K. Thakur, Tien-Lin Lee, Joel B. Varley, Jürgen Furthmüller, Claudia Draxl, Tim D. Veal, and Anna Regoutz Influence of Polymorphism on the Electronic Structure of Ga2O3 Chem. Mater. 32, 19, 8460 (2020)
Carolin Penke, Andreas Marek, Christian Vorwerk, Claudia Draxl, and Peter Benner High Performance Solution of Skew-symmetric Eigenvalue Problems with Applications in Solving the Bethe-Salpeter Eigenvalue Problem Parallel Comput. 96, 102639 (2020)
Felix Henneke, Lin Lin, Christian Vorwerk, Claudia Draxl, Rupert Klein, and Chao Yang Fast optical absorption spectra calculations for periodic solid state systems Comm. App. Math Comp. Sci., Vol. 15, No. 1, 89 (2020)
Christian Vorwerk, Benjamin Aurich, Caterina Cocchi, and Claudia Draxl Bethe-Salpeter equation for absorption and scattering spectroscopy: Implementation in the exciting code Electron. Struct. 1, 037001 (2019)
Christian Vorwerk, Claudia Hartmann, Caterina Cocchi, Golnaz Sadoughi, Severin N. Habisreutinger, Roberto Félix, Regan G. Wilks, Henry J. Snaith, Marcus Bär, and Claudia Draxl Exciton-Dominated Core-Level Absorption Spectra of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Lead Halide Perovskites J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 1852-1858 (2018)
Christian Vorwerk, Caterina Cocchi, and Claudia Draxl Addressing electron-hole correlation in core excitations of solids: A first-principles all-electron approach based on many-body perturbation theory Phys. Rev. B 95, 155121 (2017)
Christian Vorwerk, Caterina Cocchi, and Claudia Draxl LayerOptics: Microscopic modeling of optical coefficients in layered materials Comp. Phys. Commun. 201, 119-125 (2016)
Christian Vorwerk, Kevin Jorissen und John J. Rehr Real-space multiple-scattering Hubbard model calculations for d- and f-state materials J. Synchrotron Radiat. 22, 1043-1048 (2015)
Awards
Physics Studies Price of the “Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin” (German Physical Society Berlin), 2017
Research Track Scholarship by the Initiative of Excellence at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, 2016
Lise Meitner Recognition Price by the “Vereinigung der Freunde und Förderer des Instituts für
Physik der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin e.V.” (Alumni Association of the Institute of Physics at Humboldt-Universität), 2014
