With the goal of presenting myself and my work to the local community, I will summarize my past research experience (mostly in the ab initio theory of materials) and present a selection of topics of potential interest drawn from it. I would like to discuss how emergent order show up in, or can be inferred from, ab initio calculations: intriguing examples thereof are the concurrent but at the same time competing ferroic ordering phenomena. Time permitting, I will touch upon one or two more application-oriented topics, such as thermoelectricity.
Vincenzo Fiorentini (PhD, Physics) is associate professor of condensed matter physics at Cagliari University. He is currently on leave to act as the scientific attaché of the Italian Embassy in Berlin.
VF worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid Physics in Freiburg, the Fritz-Haber Institut of the MPG in Berlin, the Schottky Institute in Munich (as Humboldt scholar) and at IMEC Leuven, and served in the Council of the National Institute for the Physics of Matter and as PI and director of SLACS-INFM, as well as in many evaluation and hiring committees for international institutions.
VF focuses on the computational physics of materials and related methods and algorithms (150 scientific articles, 16500 citations, h=50), for which he received funding from many Italian and European institutions. He co-organized a long-running series (1994-2006) of symposia on computational materials science in Sardinia.
VF has taught a rough equivalent of 30 annual university classes on many topics in condensed matter and general physics for Physics, Materials Science, and Engineering majors. He has been supervisor of about 30 Master theses in physics and a dozen PhD theses, as well as supervisor of a dozen post-docs.
VF is married and has three children (28, 25, 17). In his free time he reads and plays jazz guitar.
With the goal of presenting myself and my work to the local community, I will summarize my past research experience (mostly in the ab initio theory of materials) and present a selection of topics of potential interest drawn from it. I would like to discuss how emergent order show up in, or can be inferred from, ab initio calculations: intriguing examples thereof are the concurrent but at the same time competing ferroic ordering phenomena. Time permitting, I will touch upon one or two more application-oriented topics, such as thermoelectricity.
Vincenzo Fiorentini (PhD, Physics) is associate professor of condensed matter physics at Cagliari University. He is currently on leave to act as the scientific attaché of the Italian Embassy in Berlin.
VF worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid Physics in Freiburg, the Fritz-Haber Institut of the MPG in Berlin, the Schottky Institute in Munich (as Humboldt scholar) and at IMEC Leuven, and served in the Council of the National Institute for the Physics of Matter and as PI and director of SLACS-INFM, as well as in many evaluation and hiring committees for international institutions.
VF focuses on the computational physics of materials and related methods and algorithms (150 scientific articles, 16500 citations, h=50), for which he received funding from many Italian and European institutions. He co-organized a long-running series (1994-2006) of symposia on computational materials science in Sardinia.
VF has taught a rough equivalent of 30 annual university classes on many topics in condensed matter and general physics for Physics, Materials Science, and Engineering majors. He has been supervisor of about 30 Master theses in physics and a dozen PhD theses, as well as supervisor of a dozen post-docs.
VF is married and has three children (28, 25, 17). In his free time he reads and plays jazz guitar.
