Sarath Menon
```{image} _static/avatar.jpg :align: right :height: 200 ``` **Group Leader**, [Atomistic Simulation of Thermodynamic Properties](https://www.icams.de/institute/departments-groups/atomistic-modelling-and-simulation/atomistic-simulation-of-thermodynamic-properties/), [ICAMS, Ruhr-University Bochum](https://www.icams.de/) **Software Developer**, [ACEworks GmbH](https://aceworks.works/) **Guest Researcher**, [Computational Materials Design](https://www.mpie.de/CM), [Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials](https://www.mpie.de/2281/en) My research focuses on the calculation of thermodynamic quantities such as free energies and phase diagrams using atomistic simulations and machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs), in particular the [Atomic Cluster Expansion (ACE)](https://github.com/ICAMS/lammps-user-pace) and the deep-learning-based [Graph Atomic Cluster Expansion (GRACE)](https://gracemaker.readthedocs.io/), in JAX and TensorFlow. I also work on data infrastructure for materials science, including ontology-based knowledge graphs and LLM-driven natural-language querying of simulation data (see [kg.fair-workflows.org](https://kg.fair-workflows.org/)), as part of the [NFDI-MatWerk](https://nfdi-matwerk.de/) consortium. I am passionate about open-source software and serve as a topical editor for the [Journal of Open Source Software](https://joss.theoj.org/). [Mail](mailto:mail@sarathmenon.me) | [CV](_static/sarath_menon_cv.pdf) | [Work](https://www.icams.de/institute/icams/members/members-detail/?detail=2304) | [Github](https://github.com/srmnitc) | [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kYpQVuMAAAAJ&hl=en) | [Researchgate](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sarath-Menon) | [ORC](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6776-1213) | [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarathrmenon/)