About Ratko G. Veprek
Short resume
This is how I would probably write a short resume of my scientific life:
Ratko G. Veprek was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1978. After studies in physics from 1998 to 2001,
he followed the Computational Science and Engineering
curriculum at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland) from 2001 to 2004, graduating
as Dipl. Rech. Wiss. ETH in October 2004.
He then joined the Integrated Systems Laboratory
at the ETH Zurich in August 2005 as a research and teaching assistant in the
Computational Optoelectronics Group. He successfully passed
his PhD exam in June 2009.
In September 2009, he joined as a Postdoc the Numerical Simulations group of the
Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology for a six months
period.
His research interests comprise the interdisciplinary approach to the computational modeling of physical processes.
Scientific interests
My research interests are related to the application of computational modeling within the following areas:
- Electronic structure theory in direct bandgap semiconductors (k.p and envelope theories)
- Optical processes in semiconductor nanostructures
- Many-body interactions in semiconductors
- Spontaneous and piezo-electric polarization effects semiconductors (III-Nitride) and devices
- Continuum-mechanical modeling of strain effects in various kinds of structures
- Numerical linear algebra for linear equations and eigenvalue-problems
- Developing new simulation approaches and tools for scientific problems
- Scientific programming: approaches, algorithms, parallelization and other techniques