Elisa Molinari

Elisa Molinari is an Italian physicist from the University of Modena and a member of CNR, Italy. She has been primarily interested in computational materials science and nanotechnologies, and she has been particularly active in the theory of fundamental properties of low-dimensional structures, in the simulation of nanodevices, and in the development of related computational methods. She also has a continuing interest in scientific imaging and communication. ^[1]

Biography

Elisa Molinari is Full Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, in the Department of Physics, Informatics and Mathematics, a position she has been appointed since 2001. Molinari has over thirty years of experience in the simulation of materials and nanosystems, as well as their spectroscopies. ^[2] Her research interests lie in computational materials science and nanotechnologies.

Since 2015, she has served as Coordinator of MaX – Materials design at the exascale, the European Centre of Excellence for materials simulation at the exascale using high-performance computing. ^[1] Previously, she held research positions at CNR in Rome, at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, and in Grenoble. ^[3]

Molinari has coordinated European and national projects involving fundamental properties and correlation in low-dimensional materials, and joint computational and experimental approaches to nano(bio)systems. ^[2]

She has long been active in initiatives dedicated to promoting women in science: she cofounded the "Associazione donne e scienza" in Italy, as well as the IUPAP Working Group on Women in Physics in 1999 and the related International Conference series. ^[2]

Honors

Molinari was awarded the status of Fellow ^[4] in the American Physical Society, ^[5] after she was nominated by a Forum on International Physics in 1999, ^[6] for "her contribution to the theory of semiconductors and their interfaces, in particular, her fundamental work on electron-electron and electron-phonon interaction in nanostructures; and for her involvement in the training of young theorists from many countries and the organization of international conferences." ^[6]

Selected publications

Molinari has published more than 280 scientific publications in leading international journals. ^[7]

• MAH Bertran et al., "Understanding the irreversible lithium loss in silicon anodes using multi-edge X-ray scattering analysis", arXiv e-prints, arXiv: 2410.05794 (2024)
• Sun et al, "Evidence for equilibrium exciton condensation in monolayer WTe2", Nature Physics 18, 94 (2022).
• Ataei et al, "Evidence of ideal excitonic insulator in bulk MoS2 under pressure", Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 118, e2010110118 (2021).
• D. Varsano et al, "A monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenide as a topological excitonic insulator", Nature Nanotechnology 15, 367 (2020)
• P. D'Amico et al, "Intrinsic edge excitons in two-dimensional MoS2", Phys. Rev. B 101, 161410 (2020)
• M.O. Atambo et al, "Electronic and optical properties of doped TiO2 by many-body perturbation theory", Phys. Rev. Materials 3, 045401 (2019)
• A. Portone et al, "Tailoring optical properties and stimulated emission in nanostructured polythiophene", Scientific Reports 9, 7370 (2019)
• J.O. Island et al, "Interaction-Driven Giant Orbital Magnetic Moments in Carbon Nanotubes", Phys. Rev. Letters 121, 127704 (2018)
• D. Varsano et al, "Carbon nanotubes as excitonic insulators", Nature Comm. 8, 1461 (2017)
• A. De Sio et al, "Tracking the coherent generation of polaron pairs in conjugated polymers", Nature Comm. 7, 13742 (2016)
• L. Bursi et al, "Quantifying the Plasmonic Character of Optical Excitations in Nanostructures", ACS Photonics 3, 520 (2016)
• G. Soavi et al "Exciton-exciton annihilation and biexciton stimulated emission in graphene nanoribbons", Nature Comm.7, 11010 (2016)
• S. Falke et al, "Coherent ultrafast charge transfer in an organic photovoltaic blend", Science 344, 1001 (2014)
• R. Denk et al, "Exciton Dominated Optical Response of Ultra-Narrow Graphene Nanoribbons", Nature Comm 5, 4253 (2014)
• C. A. Rozzi et al, "Quantum coherence controls the charge separation in a prototypical artificial light-harvesting system", Nature Comm 4, 1602 (2013)
• P. Ruffieux et al, "Electronic Structure of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons", ACS Nano 6, 6930 (2012)
• S. Kalliakos et al, "A molecular state of correlated electrons in a quantum dot", Nature Physics 4, 467 - 471 (2008)
• D. Prezzi et al, "Optical properties of graphene nanoribbons: The role of many-body effects", Phys Rev B77, 041404 (2008)
• A. Ferretti et al, "Mixing of electronic states in pentacene adsorption on copper", Phys Rev Lett 99, 046802 (2007)
• J. Maultzsch et al, "Exciton binding energies in carbon nanotubes from two-photon photoluminescence", Phys Rev B 72, 241402 (2005)
• A. Ferretti et al, "First-principles theory of correlated transport through nanojunctions", Phys Rev Lett 94, 116802 (2005)

References

1. "Elisa Molinari | MaX". www.max-centre.eu. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
2. "CECAM - From women's eyesFrom women's eyes". www.cecam.org. Retrieved 2025-02-04.
3. "Prof. Elisa Molinari". MUSIQ. Retrieved 2025-02-04.
4. "APS Fellowship". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
5. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
6. "APS Fellows 1999". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
7. "CNR NANO - Istituto Nanoscienze Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche". www.nano.cnr.it. Retrieved 2020-11-20.