Short Curriculum Vitae
Employment history
August 2023 - |
Postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University (Az, US) Workgroup lead by Vladimiro Mujica Research topics: spin transport in molecular systems and CISS effect from first principles |
April 2020 - July 2023 |
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg (LU) Workgroup: Theoretical Chemical Physics led by Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko Research topics: many-body dispersions in (bio-) polymers: dynamical effects and coarse-graining strategies |
Education
October 2015 - February 2020 |
PhD in theoretical and computational physics at Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, IE) Workgroup: Computational Spintronics Group led by Prof. Stefano Sanvito Research topics: spin dependent quantum transport in magnetic tunnel junctions and atomistic spin dynamics |
October 2013 - September 2015 |
MSc in theoretical and model physics at Universita' degli studi di Padova (Padova, IT) Grade: 110/110 cum laude Final project topic: Implementation of exciton calculation within the Bethe-Salpeter equation in the Quantum Espresso code, supervised by Prof. Paolo Umari |
September 2010 - September 2013 |
BSc in physics at Universita' degli studi di Padova (Padova, IT) Grade: 95/110 Final project topic: Analytical study of entanglement in ultra-cold atoms in optical traps, supervised by Prof. Luca Salasnich |
Supervision experience
April 2018 - August 2018 |
Matteo Cobelli: MSc project in the Sanvito group (now PhD student therein) Topic: electromigration forces in fluid GeTe from first principles quantum transport calculations |
September 2021 - Present |
Benedikt Ames: PhD project in the Tkatchenko group Topic: the influence of many-body dispersion in the structural phase transitions of model polymers through thermodynamical signatures |
December 2021 - Present |
Ian Sosa: PhD project in the Tkatchenko group Topic: development of a continuum model of many-body dispersion forces for engineering applications |
Teaching experience
September 2021 - February 2022 | Frontal teaching: Computational Methods for Physics (4 ECTS) (MCMP-21) for the MSc in Physics at the University of Luxembourg MATERIAL |
September 2017 | School of Physics nominee for TCP Postgraduate Teaching awards 2017 |
September 2016 - April 2018 | Tutor: frontal teaching and assessement for linear algebra and theory of computation for BSc in Science at Trinity College Dublin |
January 2016 - April 2018 | Physics laboratory assistant for BSc in Physics at Trinity College Dublin |
Softwares and programming languages
programming | C, Fortran, Python (numpy, ase), git |
Unix | bash, vim, awk, sed, queueing systems (slurm, pbs) |
electronic structure codes | Smeagol, Siesta, Aims, DFTB+ |
visualization softwares | vmd, vesta, xcrysden, pymol |
Active collaborations
- Prof. Alessandro Lunghi (Trinity College Dublin, IE)
- Dr. Matthew Ellis (Sheffield University)
- Dr. Andreas Buchheit (Saarland University)
- Dr. Matteo Gori, Benedikt Ames, Ian Sosa, Dr. Leonardo Medrano Sandonas, Szabolcs Goger, Ariadni Boziki (Tkatchenko group, University of Luxembourg)
- Dr. Jakub Lengiewicz, Zhaoxiang Shen (Bordas group, University of Luxembourg)
- Dr. Vasco Cavina (Esposito group, University of Luxembourg)
- Dr. Oliver Unke (Google Research)
- Prof. Louis Bouchard (UCLA)