Chair Professor of Condensed Matter Theory at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Director of CRANN, and Principal Investigator at the AMBER Research Centre. He received his Laurea degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Milan in 1994 and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Lancaster University, UK, in 1999. He joined Trinity College Dublin in 2002 and has held his chair professorship since 2012. His research focuses on computational materials science, spintronics, nanoscale electronic transport, machine learning and high-throughput materials design, and theoretical simulation of two-dimensional materials (such as graphene) and molecular magnetism. He is one of the principal developers of the Smeagol quantum transport software, which is based on density functional theory combined with the non-equilibrium Green's function method and has been adopted by more than 200 research groups worldwide. Representative achievements include multiple highly cited papers published in journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Communications, and Science Advances, and he has been named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher for several consecutive years (2020, 2021, 2023). He is scheduled to share at this conference on first-principles and machine-learning-based high-throughput materials design methods and their applications in two-dimensional/spintronic materials and devices.
Ｈonors: Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA, 2016); Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP Fellow, 2013); European Research Council (ERC) grant recipient; IUPAP Young Scientist Award in Computational Physics (2007); Officer of the Order of the Star of Italy (2017); Fellow of Trinity College Dublin (FTCD).
