Teaching
Philosophy
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
— Aristotle
Teaching is a key mission of every academic institution and I feel very passionately about sharing my expertise with the next generation of students and researchers. Sharing the diverse topics I learned as a researcher is a very fulfilling opportunity that enables me to give back to the academic community. My teaching style was inspired by the very passionate teachers I was fortunate to have had during my undergraduate years at the University of Vienna, during which I absorbed the fundamentals of Physics and Mathematics.
Courses at Northeastern University
MATL 7355 – Thermodynamics of Materials
Taught in Fall semesters
4 semester-hours
ME 2340 – Introduction to Materials Science
Taught in Fall and Spring semesters
4 semester-hours
Other Courses and Tutorials
Materials Informatics
Originally taught as a demonstration lecture at Northeastern University.
This interactive Python tutorial is designed to teach advanced materials and crystallography concepts using the pymatgen package in Python. It further lays out the basics of requesting materials data using the Materials Project API.
Presentation slides/recording upon request.
Density Functional Theory with ASE and GPAW
Originally taught as a guest lecture at Stanford University in course ME420 Advanced Electrochemistry.
I conceptualized and taught an interactive tutorial on how to use Density Functional Theory (DFT) facilitated by easy to follow Python code. The interactive, hands-on tutorial enables student to run basic DFT calculations without needing to install any software on their computer.
Presentation slides upon request.
Symmetry of (Liquid) Crystals
Originally taught as a demonstration lecture at TU Delft in course Structure and Properties of Materials.
Included an interactive Python tutorial to effectively explain Monte Carlo simulations and how they can be used to study phase transformations in liquid crystals.
Presentation slides upon request.