Erwin Povoden-Karadeniz
Institute of Materials Science and Technology, Austria
Biography
Dr. Erwin Povoden-Karadeniz holds a tenure-track position at the Institute of Materials Science and Technology at TU Vienna, where he is in charge of the Computational Materials Engineering group. After receiving his doctor´s degree at ETH Zurich in 2008, he developed multi-component thermodynamic and diffusion mobility databases for MatCalc in the group of Prof. Kozeschnik at TU Wien and continued his work on the defect evolution in functional oxides. Currently, in an ongoing collaboration with the Electrochemical Materials Institute at ETH Zurich, this knowledge is applied for simulations of thermochemical solar to fuel conversion efficiencies of perovskite-structured catalysts. He determined thermodynamic and kinetic properties of metastable early stages of precipitation by employing density functional theory and thermokinetic assessment of phase stabilities. This work has been awarded with the best Calphad paper award in 2014. He has reviewed numerous sumitted journal papers and will host the Calphad conference in 2026.