Welcome Luka Wibmer
New PhD student joins the group
We are delighted to welcome Luka Wibmer to the group as a PhD student.
Luka comes to us from Markus Aichhorn’s group here at Graz University of Technology, where he completed his Master’s project on correlated metals. So while he is no stranger to the institute — or to the kind of many body thinking that underlies much of what we do — we are very glad to have him join our side of it.
In our group, Luka will work on alloy superconductors as part of our FWF project on superconductivity in alloys. His focus will be on developing and applying the extended generalized quasichemical approximation (EGQCA) — a framework for modeling the electronic and superconducting properties of disordered alloys from first principles, going beyond idealized ordered structures toward a realistic description of compositional disorder. This connects directly to open questions about how alloying shapes the pairing interaction and Tc in conventional superconductors.
Luka officially joined the group on April 1st, 2025, and we are looking forward to what he will bring.
Welcome, Luka!