I joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research as a PostDoc in September 2009. Within the reserach interest of our group at MPIP, my current focus is on the determination of intermolecular transport properties from density-functional theory. Particular emphasis is placed on method development for fast evaluation of parameters governing charge/exciton transport in organic semiconductors. I obtained my PhD in Physics in February 2009 from the University of Muenster. In the theory group of Prof. Johannes Pollmann, I studied "Self-interaction corrections to density-functional theory for solids, surfaces, and nanotubes". From March to August 2009, I worked on the project "Controlling surface plasmon polaritions by purposefully designed surface structues" together with Prof. Alexei Maradudin at the University of California, Irvine. The project was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship of the DAAD.

2009

Cloaking from Surface Plasmon Polaritons by a Circular Array of Point Scatterers, B. Baumeier, T.A. Leskova, A.A. Maradudin, Phys. Rev. Lett., 103, 246803, 2009, [doi]

2008

First-principles investigation of an epitaxial silicon oxynitride layer on a 6H-SiC(0001) surface, P. Kr\uger, B. Baumeier, J. Pollmann, Phys. Rev. B, 77, 085329, 2008, [doi]

Electronic structure of alkali-metal fluorides, B. Baumeier, P. Kr\uger, J. Pollmann, G.V. Vajenine, Phys. Rev. B, 78, 125111, 2008, [doi]

First-principles investigation of the atomic and electronic structure of the 4H-SiC(1(1)over-bar02)-c(2X2) surface, B. Baumeier, P. Kr\uger, J. Pollmann, Phys. Rev. B, 78, 245318, 2008, [doi]

2007

Atomic and electronic structure of BeO and the BeO(-)over-bar surface: An ab initio investigation, B. Baumeier, P. Kr\uger, J. Pollmann, Phys. Rev. B, 75, 045323, 2007, [doi]

Bulk and surface electronic structures of alkaline-earth metal oxides: Bound surface and image-potential states from first principles, B. Baumeier, P. Kr\uger, J. Pollmann, Phys. Rev. B, 76, 205404, 2007, [doi]

Structural, B. Baumeier, P. Kr\uger, J. Pollmann, Phys. Rev. B, 76, 085407, 2007, [doi]

2006

Transmission of light through a thin metal film with periodically and randomly corrugated surfaces, B. Baumeier, T.A. Leskova, A.A. Maradudin, J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt., S191-S207, 2006, [doi]

Self-interaction-corrected pseudopotentials for silicon carbide, B. Baumeier, P. Kr\uger, J. Pollmann, Phys. Rev. B, 73, 195205, 2006, [doi]