Prof. Da Silva has been invited to TUM by Roland Fischer in the frame of a joint TUM Incentive Fund and DAAD project on computational and experimental screening of catalytically active intermetallic cluster libraries.
Prof. da Silva works in the area of Computational Science of Materials and Chemistry using ab initio methods based on Density Functional Theory for the study of metallic surfaces, molecular adsorption, nanoscaled materials and the development of algorithms for the global optimization of the nanoparticle structure. He has received his PhD from the Fritz-Haber Institute in Berlin (with Matthias Scheffler) and has been a postdoc in Berlin (with Joachim Sauer) and Jülich (with Stefan Blügel).
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