In September 2025, Professor Luca Ghiringhelli was jointly appointed by the Scientific Computing Center (SCC) and the Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences at KIT to the Professorship for Computational and Data Science in Materials Research. Previously, Prof. Ghiringhelli was Professor for Data-based Materials modeling at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) in Erlangen-Nürnberg.
At SCC, Prof. Dr. Luca Ghiringhelli leads the newly established research group Computational and Data Science in Materials Research (CDSMR), which develops novel machine-learning / artificial-intelligence, and computational statistical mechanics tools for the study of the behavior of materials functions and processes at realistic conditions, moving from their atomistic description. CDSMR also develops methods for the active learning of materials properties and functions, in order to guide via data-based and physics/chemistry-based modeling the design and discovery of better, new, and possibly novel materials.