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Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

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Materials Science
Denmark
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
90
Citations
43625
World Ranking
1658
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Karsten Wedel Jacobsen is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark in Denmark. Their research primarily spans the field of Materials Science, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry. Additional subfields of study include Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The scientist's published work covers several main topics which include:

  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Graphene Research and Applications
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion

Frequent collaborators in their research include Kristian S. Thygesen, Jens Jørgen Mortensen, Sami Kaappa, Thomas Bligaard, and Hadeel Moustafa.

Their frequent publication venues highlight a combination of disciplinary breadth and focus on materials and physics-related research:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Materials
  • npj Computational Materials
  • Physical Review B
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Jacobsen illustrate contributions to computational materials science and catalysis:

  • "GPAW: An open Python package for electronic structure calculations", 2024, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • "A Career in Catalysis: Jens Kehlet Nørskov", 2022, ACS Catalysis
  • "Two-dimensional ferroelectrics from high throughput computational screening", 2023, npj Computational Materials
  • "Global optimization of atomic structures with gradient-enhanced Gaussian process regression", 2021, Physical Review B
  • "Is the water/Pt(111) interface ordered at room temperature?", 2021, The Journal of Chemical Physics

The publication record indicates consistent contributions to computational methods and theoretical studies in material properties, electronic structures, and catalysis-related topics.

Best Publications

  • The Atomic Simulation Environment - A Python library for working with atoms

    Ask Hjorth Larsen;Ask Hjorth Larsen;Jens Jørgen Mortensen;Jakob Blomqvist;Ivano E. Castelli

  • Electronic structure calculations with GPAW: a real-space implementation of the projector augmented-wave method

    J. Enkovaara;Carsten Rostgaard;Jens Jørgen Mortensen;Jingzhe Chen

  • Real-space grid implementation of the projector augmented wave method

    Jens Jørgen Mortensen;Lars Bruno Hansen;Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

  • Nudged elastic band method for finding minimum energy paths of transitions

    Hannes Jonsson;G. Mills;Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

  • Softening of nanocrystalline metals at very small grain sizes

    Jakob Schiøtz;Francesco Di Tolla;Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

  • A Maximum in the Strength of Nanocrystalline Copper

    Jakob Schiøtz;Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

  • Density functionals for surface science: Exchange-correlation model development with Bayesian error estimation

    Jess Wellendorff;Keld T. Lundgaard;Andreas Møgelhøj;Andreas Møgelhøj;Vivien Petzold

  • An object-oriented scripting interface to a legacy electronic structure code

    S.R. Bahn;K.W. Jacobsen

  • Phonon-limited mobility in n -type single-layer MoS 2 from first principles

    Kristen Kaasbjerg;Kristian S. Thygesen;Karsten W. Jacobsen

  • The Computational 2D Materials Database: high-throughput modeling and discovery of atomically thin crystals

    Sten Haastrup;Mikkel Strange;Mohnish Pandey;Thorsten Deilmann

  • Interatomic interactions in the effective-medium theory

    K. W. Jacobsen;J. K. Norskov;Martti J. Puska

  • High-Entropy Alloys as a Discovery Platform for Electrocatalysis

    Thomas A.A. Batchelor;Jack K. Pedersen;Simon H. Winther;Ivano E. Castelli

  • Atomic-scale simulations of the mechanical deformation of nanocrystalline metals

    J. Schiøtz;T. Vegge;F. D. Di Tolla;K. W. Jacobsen

  • One-Dimensional Metallic Edge States in MoS2

    Mikkel Bollinger;J.V. Lauritsen;Karsten Wedel Jacobsen;Jens Kehlet Nørskov

  • Graphene on metals: A van der Waals density functional study

    M. Vanin;J. J. Mortensen;A. K. Kelkkanen;J. M. Garcia-Lastra

  • Quantized conductance in an atom-sized point contact.

    L. Olesen;E. Laegsgaard;I. Stensgaard;Flemming Besenbacher

  • Mechanical Properties and Formation Mechanisms of a Wire of Single Gold Atoms

    G. Rubio-Bollinger;Sune Rastad Bahn;N. Agrait;Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

  • Phase diagrams for surface alloys

    Asbjørn Christensen;Andrei Ruban;Per Stoltze;Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

  • Atomic-scale insight into structure and morphology changes of MoS2 nanoclusters in hydrotreating catalysts

    J.V. Lauritsen;M.V. Bollinger;E. Lægsgaard;K.W. Jacobsen

  • Computational screening of perovskite metal oxides for optimal solar light capture

    Ivano E. Castelli;Thomas Olsen;Soumendu Datta;David D. Landis

  • Communications: Elementary oxygen electrode reactions in the aprotic Li-air battery

    J. S. Hummelshøj;J. Blomqvist;S. Datta;T. Vegge

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristian Sommer Thygesen
Kristian Sommer Thygesen Technical University of Denmark
Jens K. Nørskov
Jens K. Nørskov Technical University of Denmark
Flemming Besenbacher
Flemming Besenbacher Aarhus University
Tejs Vegge
Tejs Vegge Technical University of Denmark
Jan Rossmeisl
Jan Rossmeisl University of Copenhagen
Thomas Bligaard
Thomas Bligaard Technical University of Denmark
Mads Brandbyge
Mads Brandbyge Technical University of Denmark
Bjørk Hammer
Bjørk Hammer Aarhus University
James P. Sethna
James P. Sethna Cornell University
Erik Lægsgaard
Erik Lægsgaard Aarhus University

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