Andrea Marini is a physicist, PhD, senior researcher at the ISM Institute of the CNR, Monterotondo Research Area. Author of many publications in international scientific journals, he is responsible for numerous international research projects in the field of theoretical physics and materials science and technology.
Solid state physics has been strongly revolutionized in the last twenty years by the massive use of computing systems. This has created a state of basic research where a key role is played by software, open-source and/or paid, which now dominate the scene and attract significant funding.
If on the one hand this revolution has scaled down the role of theoretical physics, on the other, it has opened up new fields of research and horizons. In fact, professional figures capable of deriving, with physical-mathematical rigor, new theories and, at the same time, of applying them in widely used codes so as to provide the community with new calculation tools have become increasingly in demand.
My career, production and future prospects are positioned largely on this very border between theoretical and computational physics. An environment that, thanks to the applicative component, is intrinsically interdisciplinary and where chemistry, biology and physics mix with rigorous mathematical methods. My research is based on the knowledge of theoretical solid state physics, as well as programming languages (from Fortran to Python) and technological knowledge related to the development of high-performance hardware.
My scientific and coordination skills have therefore allowed me to obtain several fundings and to have a concrete impact on theoretical-computational solid state physics both with works that have opened new research frontiers and with the development of innovative calculation tools that merged, in 2009, into the open-source project Yambo.
Contact details:
+39 06 90672-890
andrea.marini@cnr.it