Biography:Giulia Galli
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Giulia Galli is a computational condensed-matter physicist. She is the Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago and senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. She is also the director of Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials. She is recognized for her contributions to the fields of computational condensed-matter, materials science, and nanoscience, most notably first principles simulations of materials and liquids, in particular materials for energy, properties of water, and excited state phenomena.
Education
Galli earned her PhD in physics in 1987 from the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy. She held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the IBM Research Division in Zurich, Switzerland.[1]
Career
Galli joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1991 first as senior researcher and then as senior scientist. She moved to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California in 1998, where she was the founding group leader of the Quantum Simulations Group that she led until 2005. From 2005 to 2013, Galli was Professor of Chemistry and Physics at University of California, Davis. While at UC Davis, she was the chair of Deep Carbon Observatory's Extreme Physics and Chemistry Directorate.[2] In 2014 she joined the University of Chicago's Institute for Molecular Engineering as Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering. She is also Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago and senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. She is the director of the Midwest Integrated Center for computational materials (MICCoM), which develops and disseminates interoperable open source software, data and validation procedures for the simulation and prediction of functional materials processes.[3]
Research and achievements
Galli's research activity focuses on the development and use of theoretical and computational methods to understand and predict the behavior of solids, liquids and nanostructures from first principles.[4] Her method developments include electronic and vibrational spectroscopies and thermal transport. Her theoretical studies of excited state properties of matter focus on the prediction of optimal systems for harvesting sunlight. Her work also involves simulation frameworks to investigate thermal transport in nanostructured materials, which are based on first principles molecular dynamics simulations and the Boltzmann transport equation. In addition to energy, Galli's research covers problems related to water resources at ambient conditions and in severe environments. Other areas of interest include phenomena and materials used to realize quantum information technologies.[5] Galli's software activities are focused on the development of the WEST code (large-scale electronic structure within many-body perturbation theory)[6] and participation in the development of the Qbox code (ab initio molecular dynamics) led by Francois Gygi at University of California, Davis,[7] both of which are supported by MICCoM.
Galli is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the recipient of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Science and Technology Award, the Department of Energy Award of Excellence [8] and the 2018 Materials Research Society Theory Award.
The award recognizes “the development of advanced first-principles simulation methods and their application to the understanding, prediction, and design of complex nanostructured materials." Galli will receive the award at the 2018 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit.
Footnotes
- ↑ "Giulia Galli Bio". University of Chicago. https://newfaculty.uchicago.edu/page/giulia-galli. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ↑ "Galli Caltech Profile". California Institute of Technology. http://ms.caltech.edu/events/46443. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ↑ "MICCoM Organization". Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials. http://miccom-center.org/organization.html. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ↑ "LLNL Review". Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. https://str.llnl.gov/str/March01/Galli.html. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- ↑ "Galli Group Research". University of Chicago. https://galligroup.uchicago.edu/Research/research.php. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ↑ "West Code". Argonne National Laboratory. http://west-code.org/what-is-west.php. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ↑ "Gygi Research". University of California, Davis. http://eslab.ucdavis.edu/research/index.htm. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ↑ "Galli Profile". Argonne National Laboratory. https://www.anl.gov/msd/person/giulia-galli. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
External links
- "Giulia Galli". Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago. 2018. https://ime.uchicago.edu/galli_group/people/giulia_galli/. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
- "Research Group website". University of Chicago. 2018. https://galligroup.uchicago.edu/. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
- "Google Scholar Profile". Google. 2018. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SJsI8NUAAAAJ&hl=en. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
- "Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials (MICCoM)". MICCoM. 2018. https://miccom-center.org/. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
- "Qbox Code". qboxcode.org. 2018. https://qboxcode.org/. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
- "WEST Code". University of Chicago; Argonne National Laboratory. 2018. https://west-code.org/. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
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