Feliciano Giustino

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Feliciano Giustino is an Italian physicist and materials scientist who works in computational condensed matter physics. He is a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the W. A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Chair in Quantum Materials Engineering and directs the Center for Quantum Materials Engineering at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. [1] [2]

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Giustino's work includes first-principles theory and software for electron–phonon interactions, including development of the EPW code distributed with Quantum ESPRESSO, and studies of halide perovskite semiconductors. [3] He authored the textbook Materials Modelling Using Density Functional Theory: Properties and Predictions (2014) and the review article "Electron–phonon interactions from first principles" in Reviews of Modern Physics (2017). [4] [5] He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2020 and was named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in physics. [6] [7]

Early life and education

Giustino earned an MSc degree in nuclear engineering from the Politecnico di Torino in 2001 and a PhD in physics from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2005. [8] During 2000–2001 he was a research fellow in the Experimental Physics Division at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. [8] After completing his doctorate he carried out postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley and at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2005–2008). [8] [9]

Academic career

In 2008 Giustino joined the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford as University Lecturer in materials modeling and became a Governing Body Fellow of Wolfson College. [8] [10] [11] He was promoted to associate professor in 2013 and to professor of materials in 2014. [8] In 2012 he received a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for research on biomimetic solar cells. [10]

In 2017–2018 he held the Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Professorship in Engineering at Cornell University. [8] [9] He joined the University of Texas at Austin in 2019. [8] [1]

Research

Giustino's research focuses on first-principles electronic structure theory and high-performance computing for materials, including calculations of electron–phonon interactions and studies of halide perovskite semiconductors. [5] [1]

Electron–phonon interactions and EPW

Giustino's 2017 review article in Reviews of Modern Physics, "Electron–phonon interactions from first principles", surveys theoretical and computational approaches for ab initio calculations of electron–phonon couplings and applications to superconductivity, transport, and optical spectroscopy. [5]

He co-developed the EPW code (Electron–Phonon coupling using Wannier functions), distributed as part of the Quantum ESPRESSO package. [3] [12]

Halide perovskites

Giustino has worked on the theory of halide perovskite semiconductors for solar cells and light-emitting devices. In a 2016 perspective article in ACS Energy Letters, co-authored with Henry J. Snaith, he discussed strategies for replacing lead in perovskite solar absorbers and surveyed candidate lead-free materials. [13]

Topological polarons

In 2024 Giustino and collaborators reported topological polarons in halide perovskites using first-principles simulations. [14]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Feliciano Giustino". Department of Physics. The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved December 9, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Feliciano Giustino". Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved December 9, 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 Noffsinger, Jesse; Giustino, Feliciano; Malone, Brad D.; Park, Cheol-Hwan; Louie, Steven G.; Cohen, Marvin L. (2010). "EPW: A program for calculating the electron–phonon coupling using maximally localized Wannier functions". Computer Physics Communications. 181 (12): 2140–2148. doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2010.08.027.
  4. 1 2 Giustino, Feliciano (2014). Materials Modelling Using Density Functional Theory: Properties and Predictions. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-966243-2.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Giustino, Feliciano (February 16, 2017). "Electron–phonon interactions from first principles". Reviews of Modern Physics. 89 (1). doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.89.015003 . Retrieved December 17, 2025.
  6. 1 2 "Dr. Feliciano Giustino Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society". Oden Institute News. The University of Texas at Austin. November 16, 2020. Retrieved December 9, 2025.
  7. 1 2 "Announcing the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows" (PDF) (Press release). John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. April 15, 2025. Retrieved December 9, 2025.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Materials Expert Feliciano Giustino joins Oden Institute". Oden Institute News. The University of Texas at Austin. August 28, 2019. Retrieved December 9, 2025.
  9. 1 2 3 "Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biographies". National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. National Academies Press. 2023. Retrieved December 9, 2025.
  10. 1 2 3 "Oxford scientist to study solar energy harvest". University of Oxford News. University of Oxford. November 15, 2012. Retrieved December 9, 2025.
  11. ↑ "Feliciano Giustino". Wolfson College. University of Oxford. Retrieved December 9, 2025.
  12. ↑ Lee, Hyungjun; Giustino, Feliciano (2023). "Electron–phonon physics from first principles using the EPW code". npj Computational Materials. 9 (1): 73. doi:10.1038/s41524-023-01107-3.
  13. 1 2 Giustino, Feliciano; Snaith, Henry J. (2016). "Toward lead-free perovskite solar cells". ACS Energy Letters. 1 (6): 1233–1240. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00499.
  14. 1 2 Lafuente-Bartolome, Jon; Lian, Chao; Giustino, Feliciano (May 17, 2024). "Topological polarons in halide perovskites". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121 (21). doi:10.1073/pnas.2318151121 . Retrieved December 17, 2025.
  15. ↑ "ERC Starting Grant 2009 – First results (Physical Sciences and Engineering)" (PDF). European Research Council. October 29, 2009. Retrieved December 9, 2025.
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