Leopold Talirz
Computational Materials Scientist
I am a computational physicist looking for opportunities to change the world through better materials, science and technology. I love programming and working on materials challenges together with experimentalists & engineers.
Originally from Berlin, I studied physics at ETH Zurich and then spent a decade working as a computational materials scientist in academia, solving nature’s riddles through atomistic simulations and writing software to make materials science more open, reproducible, and accessible with AiiDA and the Materials Cloud. In 2021 I joined Microsoft's Azure Quantum Team to build Azure Quantum Elements, a cloud platform for supercharging atomistic simulations through high-performance computing, machine learning, and, eventually, quantum computing. Since March 2024, I am with Schott AG, a specialty glass manufacturer, in a dual role as expert for materials informatics and head of the computational materials engineering group.
