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Kristian Berland received his Master of Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in theoretical (pen-and-paper) physics in 2007. Thereafter, he joined the condensed matter physics group of of Prof. Per Hyldgaard and received in 2012 a Ph.D. from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, followed by a postdoctoral work at the same institution. At Chalmers, he was involved in diverse research subjects, ranging from surface physics and semiconductor heterostructures to excited-state properties of organic nanomaterials. But foremost the focus was on the van der Waals density functional (vdW-DF) theory. Notably, Berland developed the vdW-DF-cx functional. This functional is in wide usage, because it accurately predicts structural properties of materials.
In 2014, he joined the Prof. Clas Persson material-theory group. The emphasis was on modelling thermoelectric materials in the THELMA project, followed by a breif venture into Casimir-Lifschitz theory. In 2018 Kristian Berland joined the Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU) as an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Technology Management.
In 2019 he received a Norwegian Young Research Talents Grant dedicated to developing novel ferroelectric organic molecular crystals (FOX). In 2021, he also became work-package leader on the Allotherm project lead by SINTEF and the MORTY project led by UiO. The Allotherm project involves high-throughput machine learning driven screening of novel thermoelectric alloys. The MORTY project is a close collaboration with experimental partners using EELS to gain insight into local electronic band structure and exciton dispersion. For further information on current research activities, see the NMBU Material theory and informatics.
Kristian Berland is also head of the study program board at the Mechanical, Process, and Product development (MPP) study program and teaches the course TBM200 Material science and engineering.
Liste med publikasjoner fra min forskning. (Cristin)
Full text of many publications can be found at ResearchGate.
A complete overivew of pulbications can found on Google scholar
C60 adsoprtion on graphene: Analysis of van der Waals density functional components: Binding and corrugation of benzene and C 60 on boron nitride and graphene
Course responsible : Materialteknologi TBM 200 / Material Science and Engineering.
The course is a core topic for mechanical and civil engineering students at NMBU. However, the course is also highly suited for students from Physics, Chemistry, and Photonics.