Hello, I'm Nils.
I'm a researcher, who's active at the interface between physical chemistry, materials science, and engineering. My technical expertise lies in combining theory, computation, data science, and visualization to help improve our understanding of physicochemical processes on the nanoscale (e.g., molecule diffusion and ion intercalation in host materials) and to help improve predictions of scientifically and/or technologically important, but challenging, properties (e.g., solute precipitate nucleation rates and Soret coefficients). I have more than 14 years of active research experience, where I have worked with many diverse research groups in various countries. I am actively supporting key scientific principles such as open access (OA) publishing by writing blogs and by advocating for these principles among my fellow researchers. Furthermore, I am engaged in mechanisms to foster diversity and inclusion in academia. For example, I served as bargaining team member and campus chair in the postdoc union at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and, thus, helped negotiate legally binding parental leave terms for all postdocs at all ten University of California campuses plus LBL.
Academic trajectory
Contact
E-mail: nils.e.r.zimmermann@gmail.com
Online
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Brief CV
| 09/2022 - 02/2023 | Parental leave |
| 05/2022 - 08/2022 | Unemployed |
| 03/2022 - 04/2022 | Parental leave |
| 01/2022 - 02/2022 | Unemployed |
| 01/2021 - 12/2021 | Research Employee Institute of Thermodynamics and Thermal Process Engineering University of Stuttgart Mentor: Prof. Niels Hansen Collaborator: Prof. Joachim Groß |
| 09/2018 - 12/2020 | Parental leave |
| 02/2015 - 09/2018 | Postdoctoral Fellow Computational Research Division (until 02/2017) Energy Technology Area Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL), Berkeley, U. S. A. Mentors: Dr. Maciej Haranczyk, Dr. Anubhav Jain. Collaborators: Prof. Kristin A. Persson, Prof. Gerbrand Ceder, Prof. Mark Asta |
| 05/2017 - 07/2017 | Parental leave |
| 04/2013 - 02/2015 | Postdoctoral Scholar Chemical Engineering Department University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Santa Barbara, U. S. A Advisor: Prof. Baron Peters Collaborators: Prof. David Quigley, Dr. Bart Vorselaars |
| 08/2013 | Doctoral examination (Dr.-Ing.) Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany |
| 11/2007 - 03/2013 | Research Employee (PhD student) Institute for Chemical Reaction Technology Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany Advisors: Prof. Frerich J. Keil, Prof. Berend Smit (University of California, Berkeley (UCB)) |
| 09/2006 - 09/2007 | Marie Curie Host Fellowship for Early Stage Research Training Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon, Lyon, France Advisor: Prof. Berend Smit |
| 10/2005 - 05/2006 | Research project University of Amsterdam (UvA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands Advisor: Prof. Berend Smit |
| 01/2005 - 07/2005 | Industry internship Hammarby Sjöstad Project Stockholm Vatten AB, Stockholm, Sweden Advisor: Dr. Daniel Hellström |
| 08/2004 - 12/2004 | ERASMUS exchange studies Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden |
| 06/2004 - 07/2004 | Research project Institute for Process Systems Engineering Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany Advisor: Prof. Jobst Hapke |
| 08/2003 - 06/2006 | Master studies Process Engineering (with focus on Chemical Engineering) Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany |
| 01/2003 - 03/2003 | Research project Institute for Fluid Dynamics Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany Advisor: Prof. Lutz Friedel |
| 10/1999 - 07/2003 | Bachelor studies General Engineering Science (GES) Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Hamburg, Germany |