Dr. OSAMA JALIL

(Research Engineer Advanced Technology @ Lapp Holdings SE, Stuttgart)
An individual with a keen interest in theoretical physics, experienced in modeling and simulating materials and structures using advanced computational methods. I value collaborating across disciplines to build skills and solve new challenges.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Modeling and simulation of materials attributes at multi-physics and multi-scale level
• Advanced materials with tunable dimensionality, alloys, and heterostructures
• Digital twin models for high-fidelity simulations in engineering applications
RESEARCH & PROFESSIONAL 
EXPERIENCE
Dec 2023 – Present
Research Engineer Advanced Technology Lapp Holdings SE, Stuttgart
• Performing simulations of cable and material interactions to validate product concepts
• Developing high-fidelity digital twin models to optimize system performance
• Leading cross-disciplinary collaborations within the Tech Council Simulation, advancing theoretical insights and applied materials science in complex systems modeling.
June 2022 – Nov 2023
Scientific Employee – NOMAD@FHI Fritz-Haber-Institut – Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin
• Researching sustainable hydrogen production through catalytic water splitting
• Investigating and learning accurate adsorption energies of key OER species
• Extracting meaningful parameters (features) from DFT for machine learning-based SISSO code
Dec 2022 – May 2023
Software Scientist Molecular Simulations from First Principles (MS1P), Berlin
• Contributed to the development of the FHI-AIMs code for materials simulation
• Collaborated with a team of scientists and software developers to enhance the performance
• Developed a subroutine for slab structure identification and constraint relaxation
Sep 2017 – Aug 2021
Graduate Research Fellow NanoTech Lab, ITU (Pk)
• Established a state-of-the-art computational setup from scratch
• Developed a theoretical framework for investigating materials’ physicochemical properties
• Collaborated with principal scientists from NUS Singapore and SZU China
EDUCATION Sep 2017 – Dec 2021
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan
Research fellow for a Ph.D. degree at NanoTech Lab, within the research area of nanotechnology and
advanced materials, focusing on carrier transport in two-dimensional material systems. Thesis title:
”Modeling and simulation of carrier transport in 2D material systems”. 96% coursework average, 3
grants:
• ITU Startup Research Grant recipient
• HEC-IRSIP International Research Fellowship Grant recipient for NUS, Singapore
• 6th ePIXfab Silicon Photonics Summer School Grant recipient by Ghent University, Belgium
Sep 2013 – Mar 2017
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering University of Gujrat, Pakistan
Studies focused on power quality, harmonics control and mitigation, reactive power compensation,
control techniques of multilevel inverter and DC-DC converters. In my thesis, I developed a multilevel
inverter prototype for renewable energy applications. Full thesis title: ”Design and development of
13-level cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter”.
LEADERSHIP
EXPERIENCE &
TEAMWORK
Sep 2019 – May 2020
Visiting Teaching Fellow Information Technology University, Lahore (Pk)
• Taught and facilitated an undergraduate course in ”engineering mechanics” in the fall of 2019
• Prepared course material including lectures, exams, homework, and practice problems
• Provided regular feedback to students and synthesized information to identify knowledge gaps
and potential areas for future research
Sep 2018 – Mar 2019
Teaching Assistant Information Technology University, Lahore (Pk)
• Served as a teaching assistant and examiner for a graduate-level course in ”computational
electromagnetics” in the fall of 2018
• Led weekly discussion sessions on the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method in 1D, 2D,
and 3D to a class of 20-30 students
• Supervised students in final projects, assignments, and graded exams
SKILLS • Softwares for engineering applications: Linux/Windows server environment, COMSOL Multiphysics, MATLAB®, TCAD – Silvaco, LabVIEW, NI Multisim, CST studio suite, Microwind,
Gnuplot, Origin
• Data visualization & handling: Gnuplot, Origin, Prism Graphpad, Adobe Illustrator, Matplotlib
• First-principles simulation tools: ASE, FHI-AIMs code, Quantum Espresso suite, YAMBO
code, EPW code, Wannier90 code, PHonon code, BFGS algorithm, BoltzTrap package
Techniques: DFT, DFPT, MBPT-GW calculations, Boltzmann transport equations
• Parallel computing toolbox: OpenMPI, ScaLAPACK, SLURM batch system
• Programming languages: Python, Fortran, Unix/Linux shell scripts, Git/GitLab, LATEX, CMake
build system
– Data visualization libraries: Matplotlib, Seaborn, and Plotly
– IDEs: VS Code, Jupytor, Google Colab
– Python data science libraries such as NumPy and Pandas
– Familiarity with machine learning library: Sci-kit learn
– Familiarity with deep learning frameworks: Tensor Flow and PyTorch
• Languages: English – Proficient, German – Beginner, Urdu/Hindi – Native
PUBLICATIONS
Journals Researcher identifier: Google Scholar
J1: Osama Jalil, Shahzad Ahmad, Xinke Liu, Kah Wee Ang, and Usman Younis. Towards theoretical framework for probing the accuracy limit of electronic transport properties of SnSe2 using
many-body calculations. EPL (Europhysics Letters) 2020.
J2: Osama Jalil, Shahzad Ahmad, Kah Wee Ang, and Usman Younis. Behaviour of induced
states of substitutional and adatom impurity doping on electronic transport properties of single-layer
black phosphorus. Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 2021.
J3: Shahzad Ahmad, M Zubair, Osama Jalil, MQ Mehmood, Usman Younis, Xinke Liu, Kah Wee
Ang, and LK Ang. Generalized scaling law for exciton binding energy in two-dimensional materials.
Physical Review Applied 2020.
J4: Shahzad Ahmad, M Zubair, Osama Jalil, Kah Wee Ang, and Usman Younis. Analytical calculation of exciton binding energy, quasi-particle band gap and optical gap in strained mono-layer
MoS2. Journal of Electronic Materials 2021.
J5: Shahzad Ahmad, M Zubair, Osama Jalil, and Usman Younis. A difference method with semianalytical approach for achieving accuracy in optical gaps of 2D materials using exciton model in
fractional space. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 2021.
Conferences
C1: Osama Jalil, Shahzad Ahmad, Abdullah Nafis Khan, Kah Wee Ang, and Usman Younis.
Enhanced thermoelectric properties of 2D WxMo(1−x)S2 alloys based vertical heterostructures for
energy storage applications. SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing 2021, USA.
C2: Osama Jalil, Shahzad Ahmad, Asif Bilal, Usman Younis, Xinke Liu, Kah Wee Ang, and
Stavros Iezekiel. First-principles method based electronic transport properties of two-dimensional
SnSe2(1-x) X2x alloys. SPIE Photonics Europe 2020, France.
C3: Osama Jalil, Shahzad Ahmad, Kah Wee Ang, and Usman Younis. Modulating the electronic
transport properties of single-layer WSe2 using zero-dimensional defect engineering. SPIE Photonics
West 2021, USA.
C4: Asif Bilal, Osama Jalil, Shahzad Ahmad, Abdullah Nafis Khan, and Usman Younis. Towards
Cavity Enhanced Photo-detection in Al-doped BP Integrated with 2D Photonic Crystal and Waveguide
for Mid-IR Wavelengths. SPIE Photonics West 2020, USA.
C5: Abdullah Nafis Khan, Asif Bilal, Osama Jalil, Muhammad Zubair, and Usman Younis. Towards
high-Q 1D photonic crystal waveguide resonator in SOI for mid-infrared applications. SPIE Photonics
West 2021, USA.
C6: Asif Bilal, Abdullah Nafis Khan, Osama Jalil, Shahzad Ahmad, Usman Younis, and Stavros
Iezekiel. Port analysis using S-matrix for 2D metasurface waveguide coupler in mid-IR application.
SPIE Photonics Europe 2020, France.