Materials Modelling using Density Functional Theory Properties and Predictions

by Giustino, Feliciano

• ISBN13: 9780199662449
• ISBN10: 0199662444
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-07-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Feliciano Giustino, University Lecturer, Department of Materials, University of Oxford

Feliciano Giustino is a University Lecturer in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, the co-Director of the Materials Modelling Laboratory, and Associate Editor of the European Physical Journal B. He holds an MSc in Nuclear Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, a PhD in Physics from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, and before joining the Department of Materials at Oxford he was a researcher in the Department of Physics at the University of California at Berkeley. His research team specializes in the computational modelling of nanomaterials and the development of methods for electronic structure calculations. He has been recipient of the European Research Council Starting Grant and of the Leverhulme Research Leadership Award. Besides his research work, he teaches two undergraduate courses on the quantum theory of materials at the University of Oxford.