Lucas Foppa

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The NOMAD Laboratory at the Molecular Physics Department

Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany 

Dr. Lucas Foppa received his PhD from ETH Zurich, where his research focused on the development of first-principles-based multi-scale approaches to model heterogeneous catalysis. Then, he moved to the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society as a Swiss National Science Foundation postdoc fellow, where he worked on AI methods for materials science. Since 2021, he is the head of the group “ab initio and AI methods for heterogeneous catalysis” at the Fritz Haber Institute. His research focuses on the integration of experimental and theoretical approaches in materials science and catalysis via AI and on the development of AI methodologies based on symbolic regression and subgroup discovery.