Hi there 👋

I’m Florian Matthes.

I’m Product Owner for Real-Time Data in the MCCS project at 50Hertz, the transmission system operator for electrical power in the north and east of Germany. With MCCS we are developing the next generation of power grid control software, and my team builds the tools that feed real-time grid data into it and process it.

Before moving to industry I was a theoretical physicist working on temperature-dependent materials simulations from first principles (density functional theory), at Linköping University and the Fritz Haber Institute. I publish my scientific work under my former name, Florian Knoop (FK below).

Vita

• Product Owner, Real-Time Data (MCCS) — 50Hertz, Jul 2026–present
• Senior Data Analyst (ML Engineering) — Ambrosys, Jan 2025–Jun 2026
• Postdoc — Linköping University, 2022–2024
• Principal Research Engineer — Linköping University, 2021–2022
• PhD Student — Fritz Haber Institute, 2017–2020

Places to find me on the internet

• My LinkedIn
• My Google Scholar page
• My GitHub and GitLab accounts
• My ORCID page
• My Twitter/X account

Software I develop or have contributed to

• Temperature Dependent Effective Potentials (TDEP)
• Atomic Simulation Environment (ASE)
• Tools for TDEP
• Tools for MLFF
• FHI-vibes and FHI-aims

Publications & preprints

See my full publication list or my Google Scholar page for the articles I have (co-)authored.

Selected highlights

• Jul 2026: New position as Product Owner for Real-Time Data in the MCCS project at 50Hertz
• Jun 2026: Official start of SID (Stellplatzinformationsdienst), a Toll Collect project I contributed to together with my team at Ambrosys
• Mar 2026: Integral communication training in Berlin
• Mar 2026: I took my wife’s name, Matthes
• Jul 2025: Promotion to Senior Data Analyst
• Jan 2025: New position as Data Analyst at Ambrosys
• Aug 2024: Invited to Marcel Langer and the COSMO lab at EPFL
• Jul 2024: Invited to David Egger’s group at TU Munich
• Feb 2024: TDEP released and published in JOSS
• Nov 2023: Invited talk at the Condensed Matter Seminar at Chalmers (hosted by Paul Erhart)
• Aug 2023: TDEP summer school in Linköping
• Mar 2023: Invitation to the ASE Hackathon at DTU Copenhagen
• Aug 2022: Poster commendation at the psi-k 2022 conference in Lausanne
• Jun 2022: Invited talk at “Recent Progress in Thermal Transport Theory and Experiments” (ICTP)
• Feb 2022: PhD defense

Cheers! ✌️