Our sibling consortia NFDI4Chem awards the FAIRest dataset in chemistry! The FAIR4Chem Award honors researchers in chemistry who publish their research datasets according to the FAIR principles, thus making a significant contribution to increasing transparency in research and the reuse of scientific knowledge. Apply until November 17, 2023.

Watch the video of Maia G. Vergniory's talk, originally delivered in the FAIRmat seminar on July 28, 2023.

On July 25, 2023, we launched the very first FAIRmat podcast series!

In this series, called Pioneers in electronic-structure theory, the FAIRmat team talks with personalities who were instrumental in the development of methods and codes which have come to be known as electronic-structure theory. This includes pioneering work in density-functional theory and methods beyond to treat many-body effects in ground-state and excitations. For our first episode, Miguel Marques talks with Hardy Groß about the early days of density-functional theory, the development of time-dependent DFT (TDDFT)together with Erich Runge, his days in Santa Barbara with Walter Kohn, and much more.

Find the podcast on YouTube or enjoy the audio-only version on Spotify now, and subscribe to make sure the second episode (coming soon!) appears in your feed.

Taylor D. Sparks' talk "Materials informatics: Moving beyond screening via generative machine learning models", given in the Physical Sciences in NFDI colloquium on June 15, 2023, is now available to watch on our YouTube channel! 

In April 2023, Prof. Dr. Erich Runge, PI in FAIRmat Area F, joined the executive board of the German Physical Society (DPG) as the representative for education and young scientists (Vorstandsmitglied Bildung und wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs). Read more on the DPG website. 

We are looking for an expert in outreach and science communication to join our Area F team in Berlin! In this role you will:

• Initiate, plan, and execute outreach activities;
• Organize tutorials, workshops, schools, and other events;
• Interact with developer teams and domain experts, and organize internal team building events;
• Act as the FAIRmat community manager;
• Support and manage national and international scientific collaborations;
• Prepare newsletters, informational brochures, flyers, and other outreach materials;
• Present the project at national and international conferences;
• Manage and update the webpage and social media channels of FAIRmat;
• Be the point of contact with the outreach representatives of other related projects and the NFDI.

Read the full job description and application instructions here.

Recordings of FAIRmat tutorial 10 on FAIR electronic-structure data in NOMAD: ground state, excitations, and complex workflows are now available on the FAIRmat and NOMAD YouTube channel! The full playlist includes:

• How to explore and upload to the NOMAD Archive and Repository
• Numerical precision in ab initio calculations
• Workflows and how to link DFT and beyond-DFT calculations
• Knowledge-based XC functional exploration

Read more about the FAIRmat hands-on tutorial series here.

On June 28, 2023 our infrastructure coordinator Markus Scheidgen gave the talk FAIR research data management for materials science with NOMAD at the FDM Thüringen Coffee Lecture.

If you missed the talk (or want to watch it again!) you can now find the slides on Zenodo and the video on YouTube. 

We would like to thank the hosts for this opportunity to talk about FAIR data and NOMAD!

There are now several opportunities available to join the FAIRmat team! We are looking for:

• Data expert in biophysics / life science for Area E
• Optoelectronic materials data scientist for Area E
• Materials synthesis data scientist for Area A
• MSc researcher in The Material Genealogy Initiative: Metadata Visualisation at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

View all of the full job descriptions and apply online here.

Researchers at the NOMAD Laboratory at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society have shed light of the microscopic mechanisms that determine thermal conduction in heat insulators. Powered by the advances made in the NOMAD CoE, their computational research has shown that even short-lived and microscopically localized defect structures have a substantial impact on macroscopic transport processes. This discovery could contribute to more energy-efficient technologies by allowing for the tailoring of nanoscale thermal insulators through defect engineering.