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I mainly work with models and effective theories, that provide accurate predictions for various phenomena in solid state physics. Problems involving interactions are notoriously difficult to handle in quantum mechanics - numerically as well as analytically - however, accurate results can often be obtained within mean field theory or perturbation theory. In particular, I am using density functional theory and its extensions, which are implementet in the software package  GPAW, to which I am an active developer

I am particularly interested in

• Magnetism in 2D materials and magnetic anisotropy
• Spin spiral order
• Multiferroic properties and magnetoelectric coupling
• First principles Heisenberg models from the magnetic force theorem
• Magnons and spectral functions from time-dependent density functional theory