Vincenzo
Fiorentini (born: Padova, 5
April 1960; Laurea 1987 and
PhD 1991-92 at University of Trieste, Italy) is associate professor of
condensed matter physics at the University of Cagliari,
Italy. He has been the
director of SLACS,
the Sardinian Laboratory
for Computational Materials Science.
His activity
is devoted to the first-principles computational physics of materials
(bulk, interfaces, defects, surfaces...). He collaborates actively with
experimental and technology centers or industries (e.g. Trinity College
Dublin, Vienna University, Matis,
MDM, STM,
Philips). He has on record over 90 scientific
papers on refereed journals and 25 on books (several invited ones) and conference proceedings, about 40 invited talks at international conferences, nearly 4000 citation hits and h=28.
His past activity
was carried out, besides his present position, at the
Fraunhofer
Institut for Applied Solid State Physics in Freiburg
(1987-88,1990), the University of Trieste (1989-91), the Fritz Haber
Institut in Berlin (1992-1993), the Walter
Schottky-Institut in Munich
(1998-2000, as a
Alexander von
Humboldt fellow), as an invited professor at NXP Research
(2005-2006), and as a tenured lecturer at University
of
Cagliari (1993-2001). He serves as referee for Nature, APL, PRL, PRB,
JPCM,
..., and has served in several evaluation and management committees
of
different institutions, agencies, and conferences.
VF has worked for a while in the area of the structural,
electronic, and dielectric properties of solids and related systems
(defects,
surfaces, interfaces, polarization, devices, etc.), based on ab initio
calculations. He has recently been turning towards correlated materials
and systems from an ab initio point of view; three current projects (two funded by the EU and one by the Italian institut of Technology) involving
his group do in fact concern a) blending ab initio and many-body techniques
for advanced functional materials, and b) correlation-driven
electronic effects at oxide interfaces, and c) devising improved density functionals based on quantities such as many-body derived double occupation. The computational methods used
are density-functional
total-energy-force-stress and linear response methods, as well as
self-interaction-free density-functional techniques based on the
Filippetti-Spaldin pseudoSIC.
