Luca will be working as a PhD student on the project "Adaptive Design of Ni-Mn-Ga-X Heusler-alloys for use as magnetic shape memory alloys in the high temperature range“. This transfer project (T03) is within the framework of the project „Hysteresis-Design Magnetic Materials for efficient Energy Conversion“ (HoMMage) of the Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio (CRC/TRR) 270.

His research will focus on performing density functional theory calculations for evaluating the Gibbs free energies. He will be combining the Exact Muffin-Tin Orbitals (EMTO) method and other DFT code with machine learning to predict crystalline structures as a function of doping.