Osamu Waseda

Dr. Osamu Waseda is a Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials in Düsseldorf, Germany, holding a position in the Computational Materials Design department since 2017. His work focuses on computational phase studies, materials science, and machine learning applications.

Education:

• B.Sc. in Physics, University of Göttingen (2007–2010)
• M.Sc. in Physics, University of Göttingen (2010–2012)
• Ph.D. in Physics, University of Lyon/INSA de Lyon (2013–2016), thesis: "Atomic scale investigation of ageing in metals" (Supervisor: Michel Perez)

Research Interests: Ab initio phase diagrams, metallic alloy kinetics, magnetism theory, and machine learning methodologies. His group explores digitalization tools like pyiron for materials design.

Labs/Teams: Leads the Computational Phase Studies group within the MPIE, focusing on interdisciplinary approaches to materials modeling.