Dr. Bernd Bauerhenne
Postdoc - Theoretische Physik II
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Curriculum Vitae
2021 - present | Postdoc in the group of Prof. Dr. M. E. Garcia at the university of Kassel |
2012 - 2020 | Scientific stuff in the group of Prof. Dr. M. E. Garcia at the university of Kassel |
2020 | PhD in theoretical Physics (summa cum laude) |
2012 | Dipoma in Physics (1.0 with honors) |
2011 | Diploma in Mathematics (1.0 with honors) |
2010 | Exchange semester at the Université du Luxembourg |
2005 - 2012 | Study of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Kassel |
2005 | Abitur (1.0) at the Alte Landesschule Korbach |
Avards
2020 | Nomination for the selection procedure of the dissertation price of the Industrie- und Handelskammer Kassel Marburg |
2017 | Young scientist award in EMRS Spring meeting, Strasbourg |
2016 | Participation at the 66-th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting |
2015 | Second poster award in CINSAT autumn meeting, Kassel |
2017 | PhD scholarship from University of Kassel |
2014 - 2017 | PhD scholarship from Otto-Braun |
2010 | Erasmus scholarship for an exchange semester in Luxembourg |
2007 | Exemption from study fees due to outstanding performance in the Vordiploma physics |
2005 | Book prize and free membership in the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) |
Research interests
Ab-initio modelling of the response of matter to a femtosecond laser excitation using electronic temperature dependent density functional theory
Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of laser excited matter
Development of highly accurate interatomic potentials to describe laser excited materials using machine learning based methods
Simulation of the laser-based generation of nitrogen-vaccancy centers in diamond to generate quantum tokens in the project DIQTOK
Teaching of Lectures
WS 2022/23 | Machine Learning with Neural Networks – Theory and Applications |
SS 2022 | Materials Interaction with Femtosecond Lasers and Machine Learning |
WS 2021/22 | Quantum mechanics 1 |
SS 2021 | Theoretical Solid State Physics |
WS 2020/21 | Nummerical solid state physics |
Skills
Development and implementation of physical models
Experienced in student supervision for solving highly complex problems
Long term programming expertise in Fortran and C++ including parallelization with MPI, OpenMP and OpenAcc
Python and C programming
High performance computation
3D Visualization with OpenGl
Machine Learning on GPU clusters
Data analysis with Wolfram Mathematica
Design and assembly of high performance computer workstations (HPC)
Linux system and cluster administration (transfer and implementation of HPC equipment from TU Darmstadt to Kassel)
Fractal image compression
Outreach
Successful crowdfunding project to raise the interest of the young pupils for the Mint subjects to provide schools in Kassel the ability to obtain robots.
Working with young pupils on the robots in primary school.
Text book publication
Bernd Bauerhenne, Materials Interaction with Femtosecond Lasers - Theory and Ultra-Large-Scale Simulations of Thermal and Nonthermal Pheomena, Springer, eBook: ISBN 978-3-030-85135-4, hardcover: ISBN 978-3-030-85134-7 (2021), 535 pages. Foreword by Prof. Dr. Martin E. Garcia.
Supervised theses
2022 | Yannick Werner | Einfluss von van-der-Waals Korrekturen auf die Moleküldynamik von Graphen | bachelor thesis |
2022 | Nikolas Schüler | Herleitung zur analytischen Beschreibung von optischen Eigenschaften in Festkörpern | bachelor thesis |
2021 | Pascal Plettenberg | Neural Network Interatomic Potential for Laser-Excited Silicon | master thesis |
2020 | Malwin Xibraku | Interatomares Potential für laserangeregte Kohlenstoffsysteme | bachelor thesis |
2015 | Michael Krauskopf | Ab-initio Untersuchung von BN-Dotiertem Silicen und Kohlenstoffnanoröhrchen als Grundlage für einen Terahertzstrahler sowie einer laserangeregten hexagonalen BN-Schicht | diploma thesis |
2013 | Nils Eschstruth | Ab-initio Untersuchungen der mechanischen Eigenschaften von h-BN dotierten Graphen unter Laseranregung | master thesis |
Peer reviewed Publications
Bernd Bauerhenne, Tobias Zier, Martin E. Garcia, Ultrafast quantum processes at the na-
noscale: insights from modelling, chapter of the book Ultrafast Laser Nanostructuring -
The Pursuit of Extreme Scales, Springer (2022).
T. P. H. Sidiropoulos, N. Di Palo, D. E. Rivas, S. Severino, M. Reduzzi, B. Nandy, B. Bauerhenne, S. Krylow, T. Vasileiadis, T. Danz, P. Elliott, S. Sharma, K. Dewhurst, C. Ropers, Y. Joly, M. E. Garcia, M. Wolf, R. Ernstorfer, J. Biegert, Probing the Energy Conversion Pathways between Light, Carriers, and Lattice in Real Time with Attosecond Core-Level Spectroscopy, Phys. Rev. X, vol. 11, 041060 (2021).
Bernd Bauerhenne, Martin E. Garcia, Universal behavior of the band gap as a function of
the atomic mean-square displacement in laser-excited silicon, Advanced Optical Technolo-
gies, vol. 15, p. 145701 (2020).
Bernd Bauerhenne, Vladimir P. Lipp, Tobias Zier, Eeuwe S. Zijlstra, Martin E. Garcia,
Self-Learning Method for Construction of Analytical Interatomic Potentials to Describe
Laser-Excited Materials, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 124, p. 085501, (2020).
Sergej Krylow, Felipe V. Hernandez, Bernd Bauerhenne, Martin E. Garcia, Ultrafast struc-
tural relaxation dynamics of laser-excited graphene: Ab initio molecular dynamics simula-
tions including electron-phonon interactions, Physical Review B, vol. 101, p. 205428 (2020).
Bernd Bauerhenne, Martin E. Garcia, Performance of state-of-the-art force fields for atomi-
stic simulations of silicon at high electronic temperatures, The European Physical Journal
Special Topics, vol. 227, p. 1615–1629 (2019).
Bernd Bauerhenne, Eeuwe S. Zijlstra, Alan Kalitsov, Martin E. Garcia, Controlling Three
Laser-Excited Coherent Phonon Modes in Boron Nitride Nanotubes To Produce Ultrashort
Shaped Terahertz Pulses: Implications for Memory Devices, ACS Applied Nano Materials,
vol. 1, p. 6932–6937 (2018).
Bernd Bauerhenne, Eeuwe S. Zijlstra, Martin E. Garcia, Molecular Dynamics Simulations
of a femtosecond-laser-induced solid to solid transition in antimony, Appl. Phys. A, vol.
123, pp. 608, (2017).
Sergej Krylow, Eeuwe S. Zijlstra, Fairoja C. Kabeer, Tobias Zier, Bernd Bauerhenne, Mar-
tin E. Garcia, Nonequilibrium dynamics of the phonon gas in ultrafast-excited antimony,
Phys. Rev. Materials, vol. 1, p. 073601 (2017).
Daungruthai Jarukanont, Joao T. S. Coimbra, Bernd Bauerhenne, Pedro A. Fernandes,
Shekhar Patel, Maria J. Ramos, Martin E. Garcia, Biomolecular structure manipulation
using tailored electromagnetic radiation: a proof of concept on a simplified model of the
active site of bacterial DNA topoisomerase, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 16,
pp. 21768-21777, (2014).
Bernd Bauerhenne, Eeuwe S. Zijlstra, Alan Kalitsov, Martin E. Garcia, Mechanical proper-
ties of a boron-nitride nanotube after intense femtosecond-laser excitation, Nanotechnology,
vol. 25, pp. 145701, (2014).
Eeuwe S. Zijlstra, Tobias Zier, Bernd Bauerhenne, Sergej Krylow, Philipp M. Geiger, Mar-
tin E. Garcia, Femtosecond-laser-induced bond breaking and structural modications in sili-
con, TiO2 , and defective graphene - an ab initio molecular dynamics study, Appl. Phys. A,
vol. 114, pp. 1–9, (2014).
Eeuwe S. Zijlstra, Fairoja C. Kabeer, Bernd Bauerhenne, Tobias Zier, Naira Grigoryan,
Martin E. Garcia, Modeling of material properties after ultrashort laser and XUV excita-
tion, Appl. Phys. A, vol. 110, pp. 519–528, (2013).