Alexandre Tkatchenko

Alexandre Tkatchenko is a physicist at the University of Luxembourg who works in intermolecular interactions, chemical physics, and materials physics. He serves as Head of the Department of Physics and Materials Science. Tkatchenko is a 2019 recipient of an American Physical Society Fellowship, in the Division of Computational Physics, cited "For the development of a novel framework for modeling and understanding van der Waals interactions in molecules and materials".

Education Tkatchenko earned a bachelor's degree in computer science, and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. From 2008−2010, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, where he led an independent research group from 2011–2016.

Tkatchenko serves on the editorial boards of Physical Review Letters (APS) and Science Advances (AAAS). from the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists, the 2011 Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award of the German Physical Society, and grants from the European Research Council: a Starting Grant in 2011, a Consolidator Grant in 2017, a Proof of Concept Grant for his project MACHINE-DRUG, and an ERC Advanced Grant on Quantum Materials in 2022.

Selected publications