Dr. Christian Vorwerk
The University of Chicago
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: (773) 834-7392
Email: vorwerk at uchicago.edu
Former Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Education
- 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: Miscroscopic 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