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+title: Namrata Jaykhedkar joins our group as an Adolf Martens fellow!!
+date: 2025-09-01 16:11:00-0400
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+Namrata Jaykhedkar joins our group as an Adolf Martens fellow!!
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+Namrata started to work as an Adolf Martens fellow in our group. This fellowship is a postdoc fellowship awarded by BAM. She will work on appyling ML interatomic potentials to battery materials!