The Computational Surface Science Group is celebrating a number of notable successes, from an exciting EPSRC-funded computing consortium, co-led by Reinhard Maurer, to some great fellowship news.

Reinhard Maurer is co-leading a newly funded EPSRC UK High-End Computing Consortium for X-ray Spectroscopy (HPC-CONEXS), which started in January 2023. The objective of HPC-CONEXS is to take the lead on the development and distribution of computational tools to advance the detailed analysis of experimental X-ray spectroscopy data and leverage the synergies between experiment and theory developed through within the community to ensure maximal impact from the substantial UKRI investment into this area. Check out the webpageLink opens in a new window.

Meanwhile, Dr. Lukas Hörmann (Technical University of Graz, Austria) was awarded a prestigious MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship (awarded by EU, funding delivered via UKRI) to join the Maurer Group at Warwick in September 2023. His project is entitled “Atomic-scale design of superlubricity of carbon nanostructures on metallic substrates” (£187k).

And finally, Reinhard Maurer’s UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, “Computational prediction of hot-electron chemistry: Towards electronic control of catalysis”), has been renewed for a second phase (3 years, 2023-2026, £567k).