Volker Blum, Primary Faculty  


Volker Blum
Contact Info:
Office Location:  4308 Chesterfield Building
Office Phone:  (919) 660-5310
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Education:

Ph.D., Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany), 2001
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

August-Wilhelm-Scheer Visiting Professorship, Technical University of Munich
Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review journals, APS
Staedtler Foundation Prize, Staedtler Foundation
Teaching (Spring 2026):

  • ME 511.01, COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCI Synopsis
    Gross Hall 318, WF 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Jana, MK; Song, R; Xie, Y; Zhao, R; Sercel, PC; Blum, V; Mitzi, DB, Structural descriptor for enhanced spin-splitting in 2D hybrid perovskites., Nature Communications, vol. 12 no. 1 (August, 2021), pp. 4982 [doi]  [abs].
  2. Liu, C; Huhn, W; Du, K-Z; Vazquez-Mayagoitia, A; Dirkes, D; You, W; Kanai, Y; Mitzi, DB; Blum, V, Tunable Semiconductors: Control over Carrier States and Excitations in Layered Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites., Physical Review Letters, vol. 121 no. 14 (October, 2018), pp. 146401 [doi]  [abs].
  3. Wessler, GC; Zhu, T; Sun, JP; Harrell, A; Huhn, WP; Blum, V; Mitzi, DB, Band Gap Tailoring and Structure-Composition Relationship within the Alloyed Semiconductor Cu2BaGe1- xSnxSe4, Chemistry of Materials, vol. 30 no. 18 (September, 2018), pp. 6566-6574, American Chemical Society (ACS) [doi]  [abs].
  4. Lazauskas, T; Sokol, AA; Buckeridge, J; Catlow, CRA; Escher, SGET; Farrow, MR; Mora-Fonz, D; Blum, VW; Phaahla, TM; Chauke, HR; Ngoepe, PE; Woodley, SM, Thermodynamically accessible titanium clusters TiN, N = 2-32., Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics : Pccp, vol. 20 no. 20 (May, 2018), pp. 13962-13973, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) [doi]  [abs].
  5. Yu, VWZ; Corsetti, F; García, A; Huhn, WP; Jacquelin, M; Jia, W; Lange, B; Lin, L; Lu, J; Mi, W; Seifitokaldani, A; Vázquez-Mayagoitia, Á; Yang, C; Yang, H; Blum, V, ELSI: A unified software interface for Kohn–Sham electronic structure solvers, Computer Physics Communications, vol. 222 (January, 2018), pp. 267-285, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs].
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