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RAFFAELE RESTA Dipartimento di Fisica,Università di Trieste, strada Costiera 11, 34151 Trieste, Italy tel: +39 040-2240264 fax: +39 040-224601 e-mail: resta@democritos.it
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Full Professor
("Fisica della Materia") at the
University of Trieste, and member of the DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center of IOM-CNR (Trieste) |
| BORN: 1947, Genova (Italy) EDUCATION: SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS: My work belongs since 30 years to what could be defined as “computational physics light”: a computer experiment of moderate workload is the key to interpret an experiment, to explain a microscopic mechanism, to understand a general trend, and (in some cases) to discover a new “theorem”. I have most often addressed crystalline semiconductors and insulators, focussing on properties such as band offsets, lattice dynamics, dielectric response, piezoelectricity, ferroelectricity, flexoelectricity, and the theory of the insulating state. A few papers also addressed molecules and polymers. I am a coauthor of the so-called “modern theory of polarization” (since the early 1990s) and of the “modern theory of orbital magnetization” (since 2005). On the computational side, I am a coauthor of the first ab-initio calculation ever of (i) many-body Green’s function in a molecule (1976), (ii) dielectric constants (1986), (iii) piezoelectric constants (1989), (iv) spontaneous polarization in pyroelectrics (1990), and (v) in ferroelectrics (1993). TEACHING:
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