Niklas Siemer

Niklas Siemer is a Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Nachhaltige Materialien (Düsseldorf), specializing in computational materials design. He actively contributes to open-source scientific software projects, notably the pyiron framework for materials modeling and simulation. His work focuses on advancing computational methods for material discovery and atomistic simulations.

Education details are not explicitly mentioned in the provided texts. Research interests include computational chemistry/physics, high-performance computing, and software development for scientific applications. He maintains several repositories on GitHub related to pyiron extensions, atomistics, and workflow management.

Notable contributions include updates to pyiron_base, pyiron_atomistics, and infrastructure improvements for the pyiron ecosystem. Collaborations involve the development of tools like pyiron_contrib and coscine for computational materials science.

Labs/Teams: Core contributor to the pyiron open-source project and affiliated with the Max-Planck Institute's computational materials research groups.