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Tilmann Hickel

Tilmann Hickel

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
50
Citations
12244
World Ranking
10097
National Ranking
564

Tilmann Hickel publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tilmann Hickel sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 406 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Tilmann Hickel D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tilmann Hickel sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Tilmann Hickel is a researcher affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany, with a primary focus on engineering and materials science. Their work spans a broad range of subfields, notably materials chemistry, mechanical engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, aerospace engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to investigations centered on microstructure and mechanical properties of steels, aluminum alloy microstructure properties, intermetallics and advanced alloy properties, the application of machine learning in materials science, advanced materials characterization techniques, microstructure and mechanical properties in general, as well as high temperature alloys and creep.

Recent publications by Tilmann Hickel include the following papers:

  • Hydrogen trapping and embrittlement in high-strength Al alloys, 2022, Nature
  • Stacking faults in a mechanically strong Al(Mg)-Al3Mg2 composite, 2022, Composites Part B Engineering
  • Defect phases - thermodynamics and impact on material properties, 2021, International Materials Reviews
  • Mechanism of collective interstitial ordering in Fe-C alloys, 2020, Nature Materials
  • Diffusion, defects and understanding the growth of a multicomponent interdiffusion zone between Pt-modified B2 NiAl bond coat and single crystal superalloy, 2020, Acta Materialia

Tilmann Hickel has published frequently in prominent venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review B, Acta Materialia, Physical Review Materials, and Advanced Engineering Materials.

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review B
  • Acta Materialia
  • Physical Review Materials
  • Advanced Engineering Materials

Collaborations play an important role in their research output. Frequent co-authors include Jörg Neugebauer, Baptiste Gault, Ujjal Saikia, Dierk Raabe, and Ali Tehranchi.

  • Jörg Neugebauer
  • Baptiste Gault
  • Ujjal Saikia
  • Dierk Raabe
  • Ali Tehranchi

Best Publications

  • First-principles calculations for point defects in solids

    Christoph Freysoldt;Blazej Grabowski;Tilmann Hickel;Jörg Neugebauer

  • A map for phase-change materials.

    Dominic Lencer;Martin Salinga;Blazej Grabowski;Tilmann Hickel

  • Revealing the strain-hardening behavior of twinning-induced plasticity steels: Theory, simulations, experiments

    David R. Steinmetz;Tom Jäpel;Burkhard Wietbrock;Philip Eisenlohr

  • Ab initio up to the melting point: Anharmonicity and vacancies in aluminum

    Blazej Grabowski;Lars Ismer;Tilmann Hickel;Jörg Neugebauer

  • Ab initio study of the thermodynamic properties of nonmagnetic elementary fcc metals: Exchange-correlation-related error bars and chemical trends

    Blazej Grabowski;Tilmann Hickel;Jörg Neugebauer

  • First-principles study on the interaction of H interstitials with grain boundaries in alpha- and gamma-Fe

    Yaojun A. Du;Lars Ismer;Jutta Rogal;Tilmann Hickel

  • Strengthening and strain hardening mechanisms in a precipitation-hardened high-Mn lightweight steel

    Mengji Yao;Emanuel David Welsch;Dirk Ponge;Seyed Masood Hafez Haghighat

  • Free energy of bcc iron: Integrated ab initio derivation of vibrational, electronic, and magnetic contributions

    F. Körmann;A. Dick;B. Grabowski;B. Hallstedt

  • Breakdown of the Arrhenius law in describing vacancy formation energies: The importance of local anharmonicity revealed by Ab initio thermodynamics

    Albert Glensk;Blazej Grabowski;Tilmann Hickel;Jörg Neugebauer

  • Density functional theory in materials science

    Jörg Neugebauer;Tilmann Hickel

  • Understanding the phase transformations of the Ni2MnGa shape memory system from first principles

    Matthé Uijttewaal;Tilmann Hickel;Jörg Neugebauer;Markus E. Gruner

  • First-principles investigation of hydrogen interaction with TiC precipitates in α -Fe

    Davide Di Stefano;Roman Nazarov;Roman Nazarov;Tilmann Hickel;Jörg Neugebauer

  • First-principles investigation of the effect of carbon on the stacking fault energy of Fe–C alloys

    Afshin Abbasi;Alexey Dick;Tilmann Hickel;Joerg Neugebauer

  • First-principles study of the thermodynamics of hydrogen-vacancy interaction in fcc iron

    R. Nazarov;T. Hickel;J. Neugebauer

  • Atomic forces at finite magnetic temperatures: Phonons in paramagnetic iron

    F. Körmann;A. Dick;B. Grabowski;T. Hickel

  • Understanding Anharmonicity in fcc Materials: From its Origin to ab initio Strategies beyond the Quasiharmonic Approximation.

    Albert Glensk;Blazej Grabowski;Tilmann Hickel;Jörg Neugebauer

  • pyiron: An integrated development environment for computational materials science

    Jan Janssen;Sudarsan Surendralal;Yury Lysogorskiy;Mira Todorova

  • Ab initio study of H-vacancy interactions in fcc metals: Implications for the formation of superabundant vacancies

    Roman Nazarov;Roman Nazarov;Tilmann Hickel;Jörg Neugebauer

  • Advancing density functional theory to finite temperatures: methods and applications in steel design

    Tilmann Hickel;Blazej Grabowski;Fritz Körmann;Jörg Neugebauer

  • Combined atom probe tomography and density functional theory investigation of the Al off-stoichiometry of κ-carbides in an austenitic Fe–Mn–Al–C low density steel

    Mengji Yao;Poulumi Dey;Jae Bok Seol;Pyuck-Pa Choi

  • Designing shape-memory Heusler alloys from first-principles

    M. Siewert;M. E. Gruner;A. Dannenberg;A. Chakrabarti

  • Temperature dependent magnon-phonon coupling in bcc Fe from theory and experiment.

    Fritz Körmann;Blazej Grabowski;Biswanath Dutta;Tilmann Hickel

Frequent Co-Authors

Jörg Neugebauer
Jörg Neugebauer Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Dierk Raabe
Dierk Raabe Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Pyuck-Pa Choi
Pyuck-Pa Choi Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Dirk Ponge
Dirk Ponge Max Planck Society
Franz Roters
Franz Roters Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Christina Scheu
Christina Scheu Max Planck Society
Stefan Zaefferer
Stefan Zaefferer Max Planck Society
Sergiy V. Divinski
Sergiy V. Divinski University of Münster
Baptiste Gault
Baptiste Gault Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Bengt Hallstedt
Bengt Hallstedt RWTH Aachen University

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