Florian Kark

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I’m a Masters student at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and the MPI of sustainable Materials.

My focus lies on multiscale approximate algorithms, with the vision to build a Foundational Model able to incorporate all scales of Material Design, from quantum and atomistic to processing scales, eventually building a fully-integrated AI interface for materials discovery and understanding. I believe the universe is computable and fundamentally discrete, possibly build on just “a few lines of code”. This vision is motivated by the belief that quantum mechanics itself, and thus the apparent complexity of materials, may ultimately emerge from a compact underlying set of deterministic rules, suggesting that the most powerful algorithms will be those that discover efficient compressed representations and multiscale approximations of the underlying computational rules governing materials.

My goal is to contribute to a more productive industry and research through automation and excelerated algorithms, thus to a sustainable future.

I am also a lecturer at the Heinrich-Heine-University holding a seminar on the foundations of LLMs and their applications twice each semester.

In my spare time, I enjoy doing sports (mostly weights and cross fit), traveling and exploring new places and activities, and the best food spots in Düsseldorf.