2026 Thomas Garm Pedersen: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	53	9128	8814	40	38	293	12100

Overview

Thomas Garm Pedersen is affiliated with Aalborg University in Denmark and conducts research primarily in the fields of Materials Science, Physics and Astronomy, and Engineering. Their work spans several subfields, including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Materials Chemistry; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Biomedical Engineering; and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Their main research topics encompass 2D Materials and Applications, Graphene research and applications, Quantum and electron transport phenomena, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices, Topological Materials and Phenomena, and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies.

Pedersen has published multiple papers with notable recent contributions such as:

Interlayer excitons in van der Waals heterostructures: Binding energy, Stark shift, and field-induced dissociation (2020), published in Scientific Reports
Two-Dimensional Materials with Giant Optical Nonlinearities near the Theoretical Upper Limit (2021), published in ACS Nano
Shift current photovoltaic efficiency of 2D materials (2023), published in npj Computational Materials
Anisotropic Stark shift, field-induced dissociation, and electroabsorption of excitons in phosphorene (2020), published in Physical Review B
Optical emission from light-like and particle-like excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (2021), published in Physical Review B

Throughout their research career, Pedersen has frequently collaborated with other scientists, including Horia D. Cornean, Høgni C. Kamban, Mikkel Ohm Sauer, N. M. R. Peres, and Alireza Taghizadeh.

Their research outputs have appeared in several scientific venues, predominantly in Physical Review B, with 15 publications, followed by contributions in arXiv, Zenodo, SSRN Electronic Journal, and ACS Nano.

Best Publications

Bandgap opening in graphene induced by patterned hydrogen adsorption

Richard Balog;Bjarke Jørgensen;Louis Nilsson;Mie Andersen

1794
Citations
Bioinspired molecular co-catalysts bonded to a silicon photocathode for solar hydrogen evolution

Yidong Hou;Billie L. Abrams;Peter Christian Kjærgaard Vesborg;Mårten E. Björketun

699
Citations
Graphene antidot lattices: designed defects and spin qubits.

Thomas Garm Pedersen;Christian Flindt;Christian Flindt;Jesper Pedersen;Niels Asger Mortensen

654
Citations
Using TiO2 as a Conductive Protective Layer for Photocathodic H2 Evolution

Brian Seger;Thomas Pedersen;Anders Bo Laursen;Peter Christian Kjærgaard Vesborg

527
Citations
MEAN-FIELD THEORY OF PHOTOINDUCED FORMATION OF SURFACE RELIEFS IN SIDE-CHAIN AZOBENZENE POLYMERS

Thomas Garm Pedersen;Per Michael Johansen;Niels Christian Rømer Holme;P. S. Ramanujam

465
Citations
Hydrogen Production Using a Molybdenum Sulfide Catalyst on a Titanium‐Protected n+p‐Silicon Photocathode

Brian Seger;Anders Bo Laursen;Peter Christian Kjærgaard Vesborg;Thomas Pedersen

351
Citations
Recent Progress of the Computational 2D Materials Database (C2DB)

M. N. Gjerding;A. Taghizadeh;A. Rasmussen;S. Ali

295
Citations
Variational approach to excitons in carbon nanotubes

Thomas Garm Pedersen

263
Citations
Scalability and feasibility of photoelectrochemical H2 evolution: the ultimate limit of Pt nanoparticle as an HER catalyst

E. Kemppainen;Anders Bodin;Béla Sebök;Thomas Pedersen

219
Citations
Electronic properties of graphene antidot lattices

Joachim A. Fürst;Jesper Pedersen;Christian Flindt;Niels Asger Mortensen

194
Citations
Theory of excitonic second-harmonic generation in monolayer MoS 2

Mads Lund Trolle;Gotthard Seifert;Thomas Garm Pedersen

181
Citations
Model dielectric function for 2D semiconductors including substrate screening

Mads Lund Trolle;Thomas Garm Pedersen;Valerie Véniard

166
Citations
Dissociation of two-dimensional excitons in monolayer WSe2

Mathieu Massicotte;Fabien Vialla;Peter Schmidt;Mark B. Lundeberg

166
Citations
Silicon protected with atomic layer deposited TiO2: durability studies of photocathodic H2 evolution

Brian Seger;David S. Tilley;Thomas Pedersen;Peter Christian Kjærgaard Vesborg

160
Citations
Plasmon-phonon coupling in large-area graphene dot and antidot arrays

Xiaolong Zhu;Weihua Wang;Wei Yan;Martin B. Larsen

149
Citations
Optical properties of graphene antidot lattices

Thomas Garm Pedersen;Christian Flindt;Jesper Pedersen;Antti-Pekka Jauho;Antti-Pekka Jauho

149
Citations
Electronic properties of graphene antidot lattices

Joachim A. Fuerst;Jesper G. Pedersen;Christian Flindt;Niels Asger Mortensen

147
Citations
Lithographic band structure engineering of graphene.

Bjarke S. Jessen;Lene Gammelgaard;Morten R. Thomsen;David M. A. Mackenzie;David M. A. Mackenzie

142
Citations
Mean-field theory of photoinduced molecular reorientation in azobenzene liquid crystalline side-chain polymers

Thomas Garm Pedersen;Per Michael Johansen

142
Citations
Plasmon−Phonon Coupling in Large-Area Graphene Dot and Antidot Arrays Fabricated by Nanosphere Lithography

Xiaolong Zhu;Weihua Wang;Wei Yan;Martin Benjamin Barbour Spanget Larsen

131
Citations
MoS2—an integrated protective and active layer on n+p-Si for solar H2 evolution

Anders B. Laursen;Thomas Pedersen;Paolo Malacrida;Brian Seger

128
Citations
Clar sextet analysis of triangular, rectangular, and honeycomb graphene antidot lattices.

René Petersen;Thomas Garm Pedersen;Antti-Pekka Jauho

124
Citations