Alexandre Tkatchenko (physicist)
Physicist and professor
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Alexandre Tkatchenko is a physicist at the University of Luxembourg who works in intermolecular interactions,[1] chemical physics,[2] 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".[3]
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Dirac Medal from the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists
- Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award of the German Physical Society
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| Alma mater | Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City |
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| Fields | Intermolecular interactions, chemical physics, materials physics |
| Institutions | University of Luxembourg, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin |
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.[4] From 2008−2010, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin,[5] where he led an independent research group from 2011–2016.[6]
Tkatchenko serves on the editorial boards of Physical Review Letters (APS) and Science Advances (AAAS).[6] He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2019, and has earned the 2020 Dirac Medal[7] from the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists, the 2011 Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award of the German Physical Society,[8] and grants from the European Research Council: a Starting Grant in 2011,[9] a Consolidator Grant in 2017,[10] a Proof of Concept Grant for his project MACHINE-DRUG,[11] and an ERC Advanced Grant on Quantum Materials in 2022.[12]
Selected publications
- Tkatchenko, Alexandre; Scheffler, Matthias (2009-02-20). "Accurate Molecular Van Der Waals Interactions from Ground-State Electron Density and Free-Atom Reference Data". Physical Review Letters. 102 (7). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.073005. ISSN 0031-9007. Archived from the original on 2025-12-30. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
- Rupp, Matthias; Tkatchenko, Alexandre; Müller, Klaus-Robert; Von Lilienfeld, O. Anatole (2012-01-31). "Fast and Accurate Modeling of Molecular Atomization Energies with Machine Learning". Physical Review Letters. 108 (5) 058301. arXiv:1109.2618. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.058301. ISSN 0031-9007.
- Schütt, Kristof; Kindermans, Pieter-Jan; Sauceda Felix, Huziel Enoc; Chmiela, Stefan; Tkatchenko, Alexandre; Müller, Klaus-Robert (2017). "SchNet: A continuous-filter convolutional neural network for modeling quantum interactions". Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 30. Curran Associates, Inc.
- Schütt, K. T.; Sauceda, H. E.; Kindermans, P.-J.; Tkatchenko, A.; Müller, K.-R. (2018-03-29). "SchNet – A deep learning architecture for molecules and materials". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 148 (24). arXiv:1712.06113. doi:10.1063/1.5019779. ISSN 0021-9606. Archived from the original on 2025-11-22. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
- Schütt, Kristof T.; Arbabzadah, Farhad; Chmiela, Stefan; Müller, Klaus R.; Tkatchenko, Alexandre (2017-01-09). "Quantum-chemical insights from deep tensor neural networks". Nature Communications. 8 (1) 13890. arXiv:1609.08259. doi:10.1038/ncomms13890. ISSN 2041-1723.
