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Stefano Baroni
Curriculum vitæ
Personal data
Birth
Viareggio, Italy, 30 August 1955
Present Position Full professor of condensed matter
physics, Scuola Internazionale Superiore
di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste, Italy
(www.sissa.it)
Citizenship
Italian
Marital Status
Married, one son
Address
SISSA, via Beirut 2-4, I-34014, Trieste,
Italy
Phone
[+39] 040 3787 406
FAX
[+39] 040 3787 528
e-mail
[email protected]
Education
1978
Dottore in Fisica at the University of Pisa (Italy). Full marks, cum laude
Languages
Italian
mother tongue
English
fluent
French
fluent
Positions held
1979-80
Junior visiting scientist at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique of the
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, with a fellowship
of the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
1980-84
Postdoc (Assistant) at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique of the Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
1984-88
Assistant professor (Ricercatore) at the Department of Theoretical Physics,
University of Trieste, Italy
1988-99
Associate professor (Professore Associato) at SISSA.
1994-98
Director, Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire (CECAM)
at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
1999-
Full professor (Professore ordinario) at SISSA.
2002-
Founding director of the DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center of the
Italian Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM), Trieste, Italy
(www.democritos.it).
Invitations to other scientific institutions
1990
February. Visiting professor at the Institut Romand de Recherche
Numérique en Physique des Matériaux (IRRMA), Lausanne, Switzerland.
1991
May-July. Visiting professor at IRRMA, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1992
May-July. Visiting professor at IRRMA, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1992
November-December. Visiting professor at Forum Teorico of the Istituto
Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa,
Italy.
1993
January-March. Visiting professor at IRRMA, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1994
April-June. Visiting scientist at the Institute for Theoretical Physics,
University of California at Santa Barbara.
2002
June and August. Visiting professor at the Chemistry Department of the
Princeton University.
Fields of research
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Numerical simulation and modeling in physics, chemistry, and materials
science
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Density functional theory
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Electronic structure and chemical reactivity of metal surfaces
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Lattice-dynamical properties of materials
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Quantum simulations of interacting fermions and bosons
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Algorithms and methods for large-scale electronic-structure calculations
Scientific production
Stefano Baroni is the author of about 140 scientific papers published in international journals and refereed
conference proceedings. These papers have been cited in more than 1,800 other scientific articles in the
international literature (roughly 2,800 hits) since 1991 (source: ISI, February 2003). Among SB’s papers
some of the most significant are:
1.
A. Kokalj, A. Dal Corso, S. de Gironcoli, and S. Baroni, The interaction of ethylene with perfect
and defective Ag(001) surfaces, J. Phys. Chem B 106, 9839 (2003)
2. S. Moroni, A. Sarsa, S. Fantoni, K.E. Schmidt, and S. Baroni, Structure, rotational dynamics, and
superfluidity of small OCS-doped He clusters, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 143401 (2003).
3. S. Baroni, S. de Gironcoli, A. Dal Corso, and P. Giannozzi, Phonons and related properties of
extended systems from density-functional perturbation theory, Rev. Mod. Phys. 73, 515 (2001).
4. R. Gebauer and S. Baroni, Magnons in real materials from density functional theory, Phys. Rev B
61, R6459 (2000)
5. S. Baroni and S. Moroni, Reptation quantum Monte Carlo: a method for unbiased ground-state
averages and imaginary-time correlations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4745 (1999)
6. C. Bungaro, S. de Gironcoli, and S. Baroni, Theory of the anomalous Rayleigh dispersion at
H/W(110) surfaces, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 2491 (1996)
7. A. Debernardi, S. Baroni, and E. Molinari, Phonon lifetimes in semiconductors from densityfunctional perturbation theory, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 1819 (1995)
8. S. Baroni, M. Peressi, R. Resta, and A. Baldereschi, Theory of band offsets at semiconductor
heterojunctions, in Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference on The Physics of
Semiconductors, edited by Ping Jiang and Hou-Zhi Zheng (World Scientific, Singapore, 1993), p.
689
9. M.B. Nardelli, S. Baroni, and P. Giannozzi, Phonon softening and high-pressure low-symmetry
phases of cesium iodide, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1069 (1992)
10. S. Baroni, P. Giannozzi, and A. Testa, Green’s Function approach to linear response in solids,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 58 1861 (1987)
Teaching activity
Stefano Baroni is presently supervising 4 PhD thesis at SISSA. In the past, he has been the supervisor of
10 PhD thesis and of 5 laurea thesis at SISSA, at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (France), and at
the Universities of Trieste, Udine, Cagliari, and Modena. His teaching duties have included so far:
1979-88
Teaching assistant at EPFL (until 1984) and University of Trieste (from
1984).
1979-
Supervisor of several diplome and laurea thesis in Lausanne, Trieste,
Cagliari, and Udine
1987-
Teacher of graduate courses at SISSA on electronic-structure theory and
computer simulations.
2002
Teacher of a course on Monte Carlo methods at the University of Udine.
Other professional activities
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Referee of several research funding agencies, including the US NSF and
the Italian Comitato dei Garanti
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Member of the Board of Directors of the Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica
della Materia (INFM: Italian national institute for low-energy physics) and
director of the INFM SISSA research unit
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Member of the National Scientific Panel of the Theory Section of the
Italian INFM (1995-2000)
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Member of National Panel for Supercomputing Applications of the INFM
(Iniziativa Trasversale Calcolo Parallelo), 1995-1998.
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Organizer of several professional meetings at CECAM (France), ICTP
(Italy), at the Centro Stefano Franscini (Switzerland), run by the Federal
Institute of Technology of Zürich, and of symposia at the annual meeting
of the Italian INFM
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Referee of several scientific journals, including the Physical Review (B
and Letters)