Johannes Lischner

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JOHANNES C. LISCHNER Royal Society University Research Fellow Imperial College London 254 The Broadway London SW19 1SB, UK mail: [email protected] web: civet.berkeley.edu/∼jlischner/ phone: 0044 7518876036

Academic Appointments • Royal Society University Research Fellow, Imperial College, starting November, 2014. • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley, 2010-2014, in the group of Prof. Steven Louie. – Development of new first-principles methods for calculating electronic excited states in solids with applications to nanosystems and defects. – Supervision and mentoring of graduate students. – Coordination of collaborations with experimentalists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. – Contribution to research proposals for supercomputer time applications. • Graduate Research Assistant, Cornell University, 2005-2010, in the group of Prof. Tom´as Arias. – Development of new electronic structure methods for the study of electronic systems in contact with complex liquid environments with applications to liquid-solid interfaces and solvated molecules. • Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, 2006-2008. – Holding and preparing recitation sessions, holding office hours, grading homework assignments and tests. • Undergraduate Research Assistant, Ruprecht-Karls-Universit¨ at, Heidelberg, Germany, 2004, in the group of Prof. Hans-J¨ urgen Pirner. – Study of molecules using Quantum Monte Carlo.

Education • Ph.D. in Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 2010. Thesis: “Accurate continuum theories for condensed matter systems”. • Master of Science in Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 2008. • Vordiplom in Physics, Ruprecht-Karls-Universit¨ at, Heidelberg, Germany, 2003. 1

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Honors • University Research Fellowship of the Royal Society, 2014. • Postdoc Fellowship of the University of Bremen (includes research expenses of 40,000 Euros for 4 years) 2014. • Junior Research Fellowship (includes research expenses of 30,000 £= 50,000 $), Imperial College, London, 2014. • Heidelberg-Cornell Exchange Fellowship (awarded to two students university wide each year), 2005-2006. • Porsche Prize (awarded to best physics student in high school), 2001. • Fellow of the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes” (Federal German foundation for the support of outstanding students), 2001-2006. • Salamander AG Fellowship, 2001-2005.

Invited Talks • “Effect of spin fluctuations on quasiparticles in simple metals and iron-based superconductors”, Thomas-Young Center, London, United Kingdom, November 2014. • “Understanding interacting many-particle systems: accurate theories for liquids and electronic excited states in solids”, Department of Materials, Oxford, United Kingdom, May 2014. • “Understanding interacting many-particle systems: accurate theories for liquids and electronic excited states in solids”, Institute of Nanoscience, Modena, Italy, May 2014. • “Understanding interacting many-particle systems: accurate theories for liquids and electronic excited states in solids”, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, February 2014. • “Understanding many-particle effects: accurate theories for liquids and electronic excited states in solids”, Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, Bremen, Germany, January 2014. • “First-principles studies of spectral functions: spin multiplets, plasmon satellites, and spin fluctuations”, Workshop on time-dependent density-functional theory, Benasque, Spain, January 2014. • “Understanding many-particle effects: accurate theories for liquids and electronic excited states in solids”, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, December 2013. 2

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• “Understanding many-particle effects: accurate theories for liquids and electronic excited states in solids”, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany, December 2013. • “First-principles studies of spectral functions: spin multiplets, plasmon satellites, and spin fluctuations”, Workshop on Green’s function calculations, Davis, California, October 2013. • “First-principles studies of spectral functions: spin multiplets, plasmon satellites, and spin fluctuations”, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, October 2013. • “Many-electron interactions and first-principles study of spectral functions: spin multiplets and plasmon satellites”, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, April 2013. • “Understanding many-particle effects: accurate theories for liquids and electronic excited states in solids”, Rice University, Houston, Texas, April 2013. • “Many-electron interactions and first-principles study of spectral functions: spin multiplets and plasmon satellites”, APS March Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, March 2013. • “Understanding many-particle effects: accurate theories for liquids and electronic excited states in solids”, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, February 2013. • “Phonon-phonon interactions in carbon nanotubes: an ab initio theory study”, Electronic Structure Workshop, Austin, Texas, June 2010. • “Microscopically correct continuum theories”, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, May 2010. • “Microscopically correct continuum theories”, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, May 2010. • “Study of molecules via quantum Monte Carlo”, Heidelberg, Germany, August 2004.

Contributed Talks • “Effect of spin fluctuations on quasiparticles in simple metals”, APS March Meeting, Denver, Colorado, March 2014. • “First-principles calculations of quasiparticle energies in open-shell condensed matter systems”, APS March Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2012.

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• “GW approach to systems with degenerate ground states”, APS March Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 2011. • “Theory of fundamental detection limits in carbon nanotube mass sensors”, APS March Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2010. • “Advances in a joint density-functional theory of electronic systems in contact with liquid water: a new form of density-functional for water”, APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2009. • “Classical density-functional theory of inhomogeneous polar molecular liquids”, APS March Meeting, New Orleans, March, 2008.

Publications • “Quasiparticle and satellite dispersions of doped graphene from ab initio GW plus cumulant theory calculations,” by Derek Vigil-Fowler, Johannes Lischner, and Steven G. Louie, in preparation for submission to Physical Review B. • “Accurate determination of the valence band edge in hard x-ray photoemission spectra by means of GW theory,” by Johannes Lischner, Slavo Nemsak, Giuseppina Conti, Andrei Hloskovsy, Wolfgang Drube, Charles Fadley, and Steven G. Louie, in preparation for submission to Physical Review B. • “Boron-doped diamond films as electron donors in photovoltaics: An X-ray absorption and hard X-ray photoemission study,” by Mukes Kapilashrami, Giuseppina Conti, Slavo Nemsak, Catherine Conlon, Tobias Toerndahl, Viktor Fjallstrom, Johannes Lischner, Steven G. Louie, Jinghua Guo, Charles Fadley, and Franz Himpsel, Journal of Applied Physics 116, 143702 (2014). • “Absence of plasmarons in silicon: a combined angle-resolved photoemission and first-principles theory study,” by Johannes Lischner, Gunnar Palsson, Derek Vigil-Fowler, Slavo Nemsak, Jose Avila, Charles Fadley, and Steven G. Louie, submitted to Nature Physics. • “First-principles theory of spin-fluctuation induced superconductivity in iron selenide,” by Johannes Lischner, Timur Bazhirov, Allan H. MacDonald, Marvin L. Cohen and Steven G. Louie, submitted to Physical Review Letters. • “The first picosecond after sunlight absorption in silicon,” by Marco Bernardi, Derek Vigil-Fowler, Johannes Lischner, Jeffrey Neaton, and Steven G.

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Louie, Physical Review Letters 112, 257402 (2014). • “Effects of self-consistency and plasmon-pole models on GW calculations for closed-shell molecules,” by Johannes Lischner, Sahar Sharifzadeh, Jack Deslippe, Jeffrey Neaton, and Steven G. Louie, Physical Review B 90, 115130 (2014), preprint: arXiv:1409.2901: • “Numerical integration for ab initio many-electron self energy calculations within the GW formalism,” by Fang Liu, Lin Lin, Derek Vigil-Fowler, Johannes Lischner, Alexander F. Kemper, Sahar Sharifzadeh, Felipe H. da Jornada, Jack Deslippe, Chao Yang, Jeffrey B. Neaton, and Steven G. Louie, submitted to Journal of Computational Physics, preprint arXiv:1402.5433. • “Satellite structures in the spectral functions of semiconductor quantum well two-dimensional electron gases: a GW plus cumulant study,” by Johannes Lischner, Derek Vigil-Fowler, and Steven G. Louie, Physical Review B 89, 125430 (2014), preprint arXiv:1402.5433. • “Effect of spin fluctuations on quasiparticle excitations: first-principles theory and application to sodium and lithium,” by Johannes Lischner, Timur Bazhirov, Allan H. MacDonald, Marvin L. Cohen and Steven G. Louie, Physical Review B (Rapid Communications) 89, 081108 (2014), as Editor’s Suggestion, preprint arXiv:1402.3561. • “Physical Origin of Satellites in Photoemission of Doped Graphene: An Ab Initio GW Plus Cumulant Study,” by Johannes Lischner, Derek Vigil-Fowler, and Steven G. Louie, Physical Review Letters 110, 146801 (2013), preprint arXiv:1302.3248. • “First-principles calculations of quasiparticle excitations of open-shell condensed matter systems,” by Johannes Lischner, Jack Deslippe, Manish Jain, and Steven G. Louie, Physical Review Letters 109, 036406 (2012), preprint arXiv:1202.5030. • “A joint time-dependent density-functional theory for excited states of electronic systems in solution,” by Johannes Lischner and T.A. Arias, Physical Review B 84, 125143 (2011), preprint arXiv:1104.3175. • “Material limitations of carbon-nanotube inertial balances: on the possibility of intrinsic yoctogram mass resolution at room temperature ,” by Johannes Lischner and T.A. Arias, Physical Review B 81, 233409 (2010), preprint arXiv:1002.0827, selected for Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology. • “Classical density-functional theory of inhomogeneous water including explicit molecular structure and nonlinear dielectric response,” 5

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by Johannes Lischner and T.A. Arias, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 114, 1945 (2010), preprint arXiv:0902.1280. • “Kohn-Sham-like approach toward a classical density-functional theory of inhomogeneous polar molecular liquids: an application to liquid hydrogen chloride”, by Johannes Lischner and T.A. Arias, Physical Review Letters 101, 216401 (2008), preprint arXiv:0806.4579. • “Embedding theory for excited states with inclusion of self-consistent environment screening,” by Johannes Lischner, Dominika Zgid, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, and T.A. Arias, preprint arXiv:1003.0102.

Teaching Experience • Lecturer, Module on Density-Functional Theory in “Mathematics for Theory of Materials”, Imperial College, Spring 2015. • Guest Lecturer, Physics 240A (Quantum Theory of Solids), UC Berkeley, Fall 2013. • Teaching Assistant for Prof. Matthias Liepe, “Introduction to Quantum Mechanics” , Cornell University, Spring 2007 and Spring 2008. • Teaching Assistant for Prof. Tom´as Arias, “Physics 213 - Optics, Waves, and Particles”, Cornell University, Fall 2006.

Service • Co-organizer of CECAM workshop “Perspectives of many-particle methods: Total energy, spectroscopy and time-dependent dynamics”, Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, April 2015. • Member of Steering Committee of Thomas-Young Centre at Imperial College, 2014/2015.

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References Prof. Steven Louie Department of Physics 545 Birge Hall University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, California, 94720

[email protected] phone: (510) 642-1709 fax: (510) 643-9473

Prof. Tom´ as Arias Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics 522 Clark Hall Cornell University Ithaca, New York, 14853

[email protected] phone: (607) 255-0450 fax: (607) 255-6428

Prof. Charles Fadley Physics Department One Shields Avenue University of California at Davis Davis, California, 95616

[email protected] phone: (530) 751-8788

Dr. Jeffrey Neaton The Molecular Foundry One Cyclotron Road, Building 67 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, California, 94720

[email protected] phone: (510) 486-4527

Prof. Allan MacDonald Department of Physics RLM 13.328 University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas, 78712-1192

[email protected] phone: (512) 232-9113

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