I'm Danny Vanpoucke, a computational materials scientist at the Instute for Materials Research (IMO-IMOMEC) at UHasselt, Belgium. With PhDs 👨🎓 in Materials Physics (2005) from the University of Twente and Theoretical Chemistry (2009) from Ghent University, I'm delocalized between physics⚛️, chemistry🧪 and computer science 💻.
Since October 2022, I'm a tenure track professor at Hasselt University, where I teach courses in computational materials research🧙♂️💻 for the master in materiomics program, going from ab initio quantum mechanical modeling to Machine Learning. My QuATOMs group works on materials related topics centered around three pillars: (1) Density Functional Modeling of materials⚛️, (2) the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 🤖 for small data sets🔬, and (3) the elucidation of experimental observations through theoretical-experimental collaborations👯. Currently most of our work focusses on diamond 💎 and lignin 🌳.
As you may gather from the above, I'm enthousiastic about computational modelling and hope to transfer some of that enthousiasm to my students, showing them anything is possible in a virtual lab 🥼💻. Up-to-date information on my research can be found
