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.
His
activity (see link "Electronic materials") is devoted to the first-principles computational physics of materials (bulk, interfaces, defects, surfaces...). He collaborates actively with experimentalists and technologists at various research centers and industries. He has on record 100 scientific
papers on refereed journals and 26 on books and conference proceedings, 43 invited talks at international conferences, over 4600 citation hits (ISI WoK 2010; selfcitation ~3.5%), and
h=
hbar=31 (see
here for more citation data). He is included in the top italian scientists list published by V.I.A. in Manchester. 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 has been (2004-2008) the
director of
SLACS,
the Sardinian Laboratory
for Computational Materials Science of
CNR/
INFM, now an operative unit of the CNR Molecular Foundry Insitute
IOM. 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's scientific interests are in the area of the structural,
electronic, magnetic, ferroic, and dielectric properties of solids and related systems (defects,
surfaces, interfaces, polarization, devices, etc.), based on ab initio
calculations. In particular, he has recently drifted towards correlated materials physics. 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 (see a list of related papers
here). His
group (see link "Electronic materials") at the Physics Department of Cagliari University and at the Cagliari unit of CNR-IOM currently comprises 3 researchers, 2 post-docs, and 1 PhD student.
