David Egger received his Ph.D. in Physics from Graz University of Technology (Austria) in 2013. He pursued his research work as a postdoctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), from 2014-2017. Between 2017 and 2019, he was leading a research group at the University of Regensburg (Germany), supported by the Sofja-Kovalevskaja Award of the Humboldt Foundation. He moved to Technical University of Munich with this award in June 2019, where he was appointed Rudolf Mößbauer Professor.
Selected Awards
2017, Sofja-Kovalevskaja Award of the Humboldt Foundation
2015, Best Thesis Award of TU Graz
2014, Koshland Prize of the Weizmann Institute of Science
2014, Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship of the Austrian Science Fund
2010, DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Research Interests
The research activities of Prof. Egger focus on atomistic theories of functional materials that drive energy devices such as solar cells. One goal of his research is the discovery of new energy materials which would, for example, allow for a more efficient conversion of sunlight into electricity. To this end, his group develops and applies various theoretical methods for calculating the properties of molecules, solids as well as nanostructured interfaces. These include electronic-structure and molecular-dynamics techniques.
Selected Publications
Seidl, S. A.; Kretz, B.; Gehrmann, C.; Egger, D. A.: Assessing the accuracy of screened range-separated hybrids for bulk properties of semiconductors Phys. Rev. Materials 5, 034602 (2021) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.034602
Kretz, B.; Egger, D. A.: Accurate Molecular Geometries in Complex Excited-State Potential Energy Surfaces from Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory J. Chem. Theory Comput. 17, 357 (2021) DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00858
Brenner, T.; Gehrmann, C.; Korobko, R.; Livneh, T.; Egger, D. A.; Yaffe, O.: Anharmonic Host Lattice Dynamics Enable Fast Ion Conduction in Superionic AgI Phys. Rev. Mater. 4, 115402 (2020) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.4.115402
Dyksik, M.; Duim, H.; Zhu, X.; Yang, Z.; Gen, M.; Kohama, Y.; Adjokatse, S.; Maude, D. K.; Loi, M. A.; Egger, D. A.; Baranowski, M.; Plochocka, P.: Broad Tunability of Carrier Effective Masses in Two-Dimensional Halide Perovskites ACS Energy Lett. 5, 3609 (2020) DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.0c01758
Ziegler, J. D.; Zipfel, J.; Meisinger, B.; Menahem, M.; Zhu, X.; Taniguchi, T.; Watanabe, K.; Yaffe, O.; Egger, D. A.; Chernikov, A.: Fast and anomalous exciton diffusion in two-dimensional hybrid perovskites Nano. Lett. 20, 6674 (2020) DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02472
Asher, M.; Angerer, D.; Korobko, R.; Diskin-Posner, Y.; Egger, D. A.; Yaffe, O.: Anharmonic Lattice Vibrations in Small‐Molecule Organic Semiconductors Adv. Mater. 32, 1908028 (2020) DOI: 10.1002/adma.201908028
Wruss, E.; Prokopiou, G.; Kronik, L.; Zojer, E.; Hofmann, O. T.; Egger, D. A.: Magnetic configurations of open-shell molecules on metals: The case of CuPc and CoPc on silver Phys. Rev. Mater. 3, 086002 (2019) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.086002
Seidl, Stefan A.; Kretz, Bernhard; Gehrmann, Christian; Egger, David A.: Assessing the accuracy of screened range-separated hybrids for bulk properties of semiconductors. Physical Review Materials 5 (3), 2021 more…
Brenner, Thomas M.; Gehrmann, Christian; Korobko, Roman; Livneh, Tsachi; Egger, David A.; Yaffe, Omer: Anharmonic host-lattice dynamics enable fast ion conduction in superionic AgI. Physical Review Materials 4 (11), 2020 more…
Dyksik, Mateusz; Duim, Herman; Zhu, Xiangzhou; Yang, Zhuo; Gen, Masaki; Kohama, Yoshimitsu; Adjokatse, Sampson; Maude, Duncan K.; Loi, Maria Antonietta; Egger, David A.; Baranowski, Michal; Plochocka, Paulina: Broad Tunability of Carrier Effective Masses in Two-Dimensional Halide Perovskites. ACS Energy Letters 5 (11), 2020, 3609-3616 more…
Kretz, Bernhard; Egger, David A.: Accurate Molecular Geometries in Complex Excited-State Potential Energy Surfaces from Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 17 (1), 2020, 357-366 more…
Ziegler, Jonas D.; Zipfel, Jonas; Meisinger, Barbara; Menahem, Matan; Zhu, Xiangzhou; Taniguchi, Takashi; Watanabe, Kenji; Yaffe, Omer; Egger, David A.; Chernikov, Alexey: Fast and Anomalous Exciton Diffusion in Two-Dimensional Hybrid Perovskites. Nano Letters 20 (9), 2020, 6674-6681 more…
2019
Wruss, Elisabeth; Prokopiou, Georgia; Kronik, Leeor; Zojer, Egbert; Hofmann, Oliver T.; Egger, David A.: Magnetic configurations of open-shell molecules on metals: The case of CuPc and CoPc on silver. Physical Review Materials 3 (8), 2019 more…
