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Janosh Riebesell

I joined the Materials Project as a staff member in early 2023 where I developed ML foundation models (CHGNet, MACE-MP) and high-throughput workflows for generating more diverse, higher-quality DFT datasets for future models.
I joined Radical AI in April 2024 to vertically integrate MLIPs and robotic labs.
In my spare time, I contribute to open source for materials informatics and help maintain pymatgen, pymatviz, atomate2, matbench-discovery, matcalc and others.

  Selected Publications Sort by

  1. A Foundational Potential Energy Surface Dataset for Materials

    A. Kaplan, ..., J. Riebesell, ..., S. Ong 10.48550/arXiv.2503.04070 — 2025-3
  2. Overcoming systematic softening in universal machine learning interatomic potentials by fine-tuning

    B. Deng, ..., J. Riebesell, ..., G. Ceder http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07105 — 2024-5
  3. Developments and applications of the OPTIMADE API for materials discovery, design, and data exchange

    M. Evans, ..., J. Riebesell, ..., R. Armiento 10.48550/arXiv.2402.00572 — 2024-2
  4. LLaMP: Large Language Model Made Powerful for High-fidelity Materials Knowledge Retrieval and Distillation

    Y. Chiang, C. Chou, J. Riebesell arxiv.org/abs/2401.17244 — 2024-1
  5. Pushing the Pareto front of band gap and permittivity: ML-guided search for dielectric materials

    J. Riebesell, T. Surta, ..., A. Lee arxiv.org/abs/2401.05848v1 — 2024-1
  6. Jobflow: Computational Workflows Made Simple

    A. Rosen, ..., J. Riebesell, ..., A. Ganose 10.21105/joss.05995 — 2024-1
  7. A foundation model for atomistic materials chemistry

    J. Riebesell, I. Batatia, ..., G. Csányi arxiv.org/abs/2401.00096v1 — 2023-12
  8. CHGNet as a pretrained universal neural network potential for charge-informed atomistic modelling

    B. Deng, ..., J. Riebesell, ..., G. Ceder 10.1038/s42256-023-00716-3 — 2023-9
  9. Matbench Discovery -- A framework to evaluate machine learning crystal stability predictions

    J. Riebesell, R. Goodall, ..., K. Persson 10.48550/arXiv.2308.14920 — 2023-8
  10. Crystal Toolkit: A Web App Framework to Improve Usability and Accessibility of Materials Science Research Algorithms

    M. Horton, ..., J. Riebesell, ..., K. Persson 10.48550/arXiv.2302.06147 — 2023-2

  Open Source Sort by

  • pymatgen Logo pymatgen 1637 ⭐ 1048 commits Python, Cython

    One of the largest and most popular open source materials analysis codes that defines classes for structures, molecules, slabs, etc. and interfaces seamlessly with various other materials codes. It also powers the Materials Project.

  • Matbench Discovery Logo Matbench Discovery 153 ⭐ 456 commits Python, TypeScript, Svelte

    Benchmark for machine learning energy models simulating a real-world materials discovery campaign.

  • pymatviz Logo pymatviz 223 ⭐ 407 commits Python, Svelte, CSS

    A toolkit for visualizations in materials informatics to complement pymatgen.

  • atomate2 Logo atomate2 217 ⭐ 379 commits Python, Jupyter Notebook, Shell

    atomate2 is a library of computational materials science workflows used by the Materials Project and beyond. It supports multiple DFT codes and downstream analysis tools. Recently, we added machine learning potential-powered structure relaxation workflows.

  • MultiSelect Logo MultiSelect 302 ⭐ 278 commits TypeScript, Svelte, CSS

    Keyboard-friendly, accessible and customizable multi-select web component.

  • Scientific Diagrams Logo Scientific Diagrams 300 ⭐ 250 commits Typst, TeX, Svelte

    Typst and TikZ diagrams of concepts in physics/chemistry/ML.

  • Aviary Logo Aviary 55 ⭐ 237 commits Python

    Compositional, structural and coarse-grained structural ML energy model implementations (Roost, Wren, CGCNN, Wrenformer) with a consistent API.

  • Elementari Logo Elementari 152 ⭐ 219 commits TypeScript, Svelte, CSS

    A library of Svelte components for building interactive web apps with performant chemistry visualizations like periodic tables, Bohr atoms, nuclei, heatmaps, scatter plots.

  • CHGNet Logo CHGNet 303 ⭐ 196 commits Python, C, Cython

    Pretrained universal neural network potential for charge-informed atomistic modeling published on the Sep 2023 cover of NMI.

  • jobflow Logo jobflow 103 ⭐ 136 commits Python, TeX

    jobflow is a library for writing computational workflows. It provides the plumbing underlying atomate2 and was adopted by several other workflow libraries.

  • Tensorboard Reducer Logo Tensorboard Reducer 73 ⭐ 83 commits Python, TeX

    Reduce multiple PyTorch TensorBoard runs to new events/CSV/JSON. Good for model ensembles.

  • MatCalc Logo MatCalc 87 ⭐ 77 commits Python, Jupyter Notebook

    A Python library for calculating materials properties from ML force field potential energy surfaces.

  • Normalizing Flows Logo Normalizing Flows 1523 ⭐ 74 commits Python

    Curated list of resources for learning and using normalizing flows, a powerful tool in ML for modeling probability distributions.

  • MLIP PES softening Logo MLIP PES softening 20 ⭐ 61 commits Python, CSS, Svelte

    Overcoming systematic softening in universal machine learning interatomic potentials by fine-tuning

  • TorchSim Logo TorchSim 222 ⭐ 27 commits Python

    Torch-native, batchable, atomistic simulation.

  • Dielectrics Logo Dielectrics 10 ⭐ 27 commits HTML, Python, TeX

    Pushing the Pareto front of band gap and permittivity with ML-guided dielectrics discovery incl. experimental synthesis.

  • MACE Foundations Logo MACE Foundations 22 commits message, documentation_url, status

    Fast and accurate machine learning interatomic potentials with higher order equivariant message passing.

  • MatPES Logo MatPES 35 ⭐ Jupyter Notebook, Python, CSS

    A foundational DFT potential energy dataset for materials covering 89 elements and emphasizing data diversity and quality (at PBE and r2SCAN level).

  Education

  • PhD Student University of Cambridge

    Thesis title: Can machine learning accelerate high-throughput searches for novel functional materials?

  • MPhil in Scientific Computing University of Cambridge

    Thesis title: Probabilistic Data-Driven Discovery of Thermoelectric Materials

  • MSc in Physics ITP Heidelberg

    Thesis title: Functional Renormalization Group Analytically Continued to Finite Temperatures

  • BSc in Physics Hamburg University

    Thesis title: van der Waals Corrections for Density Functional Theory - DFT+D2 applied to Graphene-hBN-Heterostructures

  Awards

  Volunteer Work

  • Studenten bilden SchülerStudenten bilden Schüler Board member and head of IT

    Non-profit student initiative that connects University student volunteers with children from underprivileged families for free tutoring.

  • Afara FoundationAfara Foundation Board member and head of IT

    A non-profit student association that runs orphanages in Namibia and funds children's education and medical treatment in several African countries.