Dr. Rico Friedrich

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsTheoretical Condensed Matter Physics,Thermodynamics and Kinetics as well as Properties of Phases and Microstructure of Materials
Keywordshigh-entropy systems, autonomous high-throughput computational materials, disordered materials, materials science, materials thermodynamics
Honours and awards

2018: Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a research stay in the group of Prof. Dr. Stefano Curtarolo

2017: Scholarship for the Future Technologies Science Match in Dresden

2015: Cutting-Edge-Award of Peter Grünberg Institut 1 and Institute of Advanced Simulation 1, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

2013: Georgius-Agricola-Medal and Agricola-Price 2013 of TU Bergakademie Freiberg

2012: Participation at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2012 on physics

2012: 1st place at the second Freiberger Science Slam

2011: Deutschlandstipendium (scholarship) from summer semester 2011 to summer semester 2012

2011: 1st place at the first Freiberger Science Slam

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityDresden
InstitutionTechnische Universität Dresden
InstituteFakultät Chemie und Lebensmittelchemie

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Stefano CurtaroloDepartment of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences, School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham
Prof. Dr. Arkady KrasheninnikovInstitute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Dresden
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2018

Programme(s)

2018Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2022Friedrich, Rico and Ghorbani-Asl, Mahdi and Curtarolo, Stefano and Krasheninnikov, Arkady V.: Data-Driven Quest for Two-Dimensional Non-van der Waals Materials. In: Nano Letters, 22, 2022, 989--997
2021Friedrich, Rico and Esters, Marco and Oses, Corey and Ki, Stuart and Brenner, Maxwell J. and Hicks, David and Mehl, Michael J. and Toher, Cormac and Curtarolo, Stefano: Automated coordination corrected enthalpies with {AFLOW}-{CCE}. In: Physical Review Materials, 5, 2021, 043803
2021Mehl, Michael J. and Ronquillo, Mateo and Hicks, David and Esters, Marco and Oses, Corey and Friedrich, Rico and Smolyanyuk, Andriy and Gossett, Eric and Finkenstadt, Daniel and Curtarolo, Stefano: Tin-pest problem as a test of density functionals using high-throughput calculations. In: Physical Review Materials, 5, 2021, 083608
2019Rico Friedrich, Demet Usanmaz, Corey Oses, Andrew Supka, Marco Fornari, Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, Cormac Toher and Stefano Curtarolo: Coordination corrected ab initio formation enthalpies. In: Nature Publishing Journal Computational Materials, 2019, 59
2018Demet Usanmaz, Pinku Nath, Cormac Toher, Jose Javier Plata, Rico Friedrich, Marco Fornari, Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, and Stefano Curtarolo: Spinodal Superlattices of Topological Insulators. In: Chemistry of Materials, 2018, 2331-2340
2017Rico Friedrich, Vasile Caciuc, Bernd Zimmermann, Gustav Bihlmayer, Nicolae Atodiresei, and Stefan Blu?gel: Creating anisotropic spin-split surface states in momentum space by molecular adsorption. In: Physical Review B, 2017, 085403
2017Rico Friedrich, Vasile Caciuc, Gustav Bihlmayer, Nicolae Atodiresei and Stefan Blu?gel: Designing the Rashba spin texture by adsorption of inorganic molecules. In: New Journal of Physics, 2017, 043017
2017Volkmar Heß, Rico Friedrich, Frank Matthes, Vasile Caciuc, Nicolae Atodiresei, Daniel E Bu?rgler, Stefan Blu?gel and ClausMSchneider: Magnetic subunits within a single molecule–surface hybrid. In: New Journal of Physics, 2017, 053016
2017Taner Esat, Rico Friedrich, Frank Matthes, Vasile Caciuc, Nicolae Atodiresei, Stefan Blügel, Daniel E. Bürgler, F. Stefan Tautz, and Claus M. Schneider: Quantum interference effects in molecular spin hybrids. In: Physical Review B, 2017, 094409
2016Rico Friedrich: Ab initio investigation of hybrid molecular-metallic interfaces as a tool to design surface magnetic properties for molecular spintronics. Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 2016
2016Rico Friedrich, Vasile Caciuc, Nicolae Atodiresei, and Stefan Blügel: Exchange interactions of magnetic surfaces below two-dimensional materials. In: Physical Review B, 2016, 220406(R)
2015Rico Friedrich, Vasile Caciuc, Nikolai S. Kiselev, Nicolae Atodiresei, and Stefan Blügel: Chemically functionalized magnetic exchange interactions of hybrid organic-ferromagnetic metal interfaces. In: Physical Review B, 2015, 115432
2015Rico Friedrich, Vasile Caciuc, Nicolae Atodiresei, and Stefan Blügel: Molecular induced skyhook effect for magnetic interlayer softening. In: Physical Review B, 2015, 195407
2013Rico Friedrich, Berthold Kersting, and Jens Kortus: Fermi level engineering in organic semiconductors for controlled manufacturing of charge and spin transfer materials. In: Physical Review B, 2013, 155327
2013Susi Lindner, Benjamin Mahns, Andreas König, Friedrich Roth, Martin Knupfer, Rico Friedrich, Torsten Hahn, and Jens Kortus: Phthalocyanine dimers in a blend: Spectroscopic and theoretical studies of MnPc?+/F16CoPc??. In: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2013, 024707
2013Rico Friedrich, Susi Lindner, Torsten Hahn, Claudia Loose, Simon Liebing, Martin Knupfer, and Jens Kortus: Systematic theoretical investigation of the phthalocyanine based dimer: MnPc?+/F16CoPc??. In: Physical Review B, 2013, 115423
2012R. Friedrich, T. Hahn, J. Kortus, M. Fronk, F. Haidu, G. Salvan, D. R. T. Zahn, M. Schlesinger, M. Mehring, F. Roth, B. Mahns, and M. Knupfer: Electronic states and the influence of oxygen addition on the optical absorption behaviour of manganese phthalocyanine. In: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2012, 064704
2012Susi Lindner, Martin Knupfer, Rico Friedrich, Torsten Hahn, and Jens Kortus: Hybrid States and Charge Transfer at a Phthalocyanine Heterojunction: MnPc?+/F16CoPc??. In: Physical Review Letters, 2012, 027601
2011M. Grobosch, B. Mahns, C. Loose, R. Friedrich, C. Schmidt, J. Kortus and M. Knupfer: Identification of the electronic states of manganese phthalocyanine close to the Fermi level. In: Chemical Physics Letters, 2011, 122-125