Pernilla Ekborg Tanner

Research

Pernilla’s Ph.D. studies were focused on predicting the thermodynamic and optical properties of Pd-based nanoalloy particles and structures, in particular in the context of hydrogen sensing. To this end, she employed methods such as density functional theory, alloy cluster expansions, electrodynamics simulations as well as various machine learning algorithms.

Education

• 2026: Ph.D. in Physics; Chalmers University of Technology
• 2022: Licentiate in Physics; Chalmers University of Technology
• 2019: M.Sc. in Applied Physics; Chalmers University of Technology
• 2017: B.Sc. in Applied Physics; Chalmers University of Technology

Publications

• Competing adsorption of H and CO on Pd-alloy surfaces: Mechanistic insight into the mitigating effect of Cu on CO poisoning Permalink
  P. Ekborg-Tanner and P. Erhart
  arXiv:2603.00776 (2026)
• Accelerating Plasmonic Hydrogen Sensors for Inert Gas Environments by Transformer-Based Deep Learning Permalink
  V. Martvall, H. K. Moberg, A. Theodoridis, D. Tomeček, P. Ekborg-Tanner, S. Nilsson, G. Volpe, P. Erhart, and C. Langhammer
  ACS Sensors 10, 376 (2025)
• Machine Learning-Based Interpretation of Optical Properties of Colloidal Gold with Convolutional Neural Networks Permalink
  F. Bilén, P. Ekborg-Tanner, A. Balzano, M. Ughetto, R. R. da Silva, H. Schomaker, P. Erhart, K. Moth-Poulsen, and R. Bordes
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 128, 13909 (2024)
• Construction and sampling of alloy cluster expansions - A tutorial Permalink
  P. Ekborg-Tanner, P. Rosander, E. Fransson, and P. Erhart
  PRX Energy 3, 17409 (2024)
• Computational Design of Alloy Nanostructures for Optical Sensing of Hydrogen Permalink
  P. Ekborg-Tanner, J. M. Rahm, V. Rosendal, M. Bancerek, T. P. Rossi, T. J. Antosiewicz, and P. Erhart
  ACS Applied Nano Materials 5, 10225 (2022)
• Hydrogen-driven Surface Segregation in Pd-alloys from Atomic Scale Simulations Permalink
  P. Ekborg-Tanner and P. Erhart
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 125, 17248 (2021)

Theses

• Pd-nanoalloys for hydrogen sensing: Multiscale modeling of thermodynamic and optical properties Permalink
  P. Ekborg-Tanner, Licentiate Thesis (2022)
• Ordering and segregation in the PdAuCu system: Bulk vs. surface Permalink
  P. Tanner, Master′s Thesis (2019)