Dr. Feliciano Giustino

Biography

Feliciano Giustino is a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, holding the Moncrief Chair in Quantum Materials Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2005 and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley from 2005 to 2008. Before joining UT Austin, he served as a Professor in Materials Science at the University of Oxford from 2008 to 2019 and held the position of Mary Shepard B. Upson Professor of Engineering at Cornell University during 2017-2018. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and recognized as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. Among his accolades are the Leverhulme Research Leadership Award, the Moncrief Grand Challenge Award, and the Guggenheim Fellowship in the Physics Centennial Class. Giustino is involved with the Executive Editorial Board of JPhys Materials and serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Computational Electronics. His research emphasizes electronic structure theory, high-performance computing, and quantum design of advanced materials. He has authored 180 scientific publications and edited a monograph on density-functional theory published by Oxford University Press. He also initiated the open-source EPW software project to study electron–phonon interactions.

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