Davide Presti

Davide Presti was born in Savigliano (CN), September 13, 1985. He received his master degree in Materials Science at the University of Torino under the supervision of Dr. Bartolomeo Civalleri (Theoretical Chemistry Group).

At present, he is a Ph.D. student at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, under the supervision of Prof. M. C. Menziani and Dr. A. Pedone. He is interested in the ab initio computational characterization of organic molecular crystals. He is also collaborating with the Theoretical Chemistry Group in Torino for the development of the software CRYSTAL (implementation of novel DFT dispersion-correction schemes). 

From May, 2013 to May, 2014 he was visiting student in the group of Modélisation des Systèmes Complexes at ParisTech, headed by Prof. Carlo Adamo, to investigate electronic and optical properties of photochromic/thermochromic molecular crystals.

During his M.Sc. and  a succeeding Grant period in Torino, he implemented in CRYSTAL many DFT exchange and/or correlation functionals (in collaboration with Dr. B. Civalleri and Dr. M. Ferrabone): B97 and B97-like family functionals (B98, HCTH, etc.), mPW91 and C09, as well as range-separated hybrid functionals: (i) based on the B97 functional form, such as the long-range corrected ωB97 and ωB97-X methods, and (ii) based on the Henderson-Janesko- Scuseria exchange-hole, in particular: the screened Coulomb HSE06 and HSEsol functionals; the long-range corrected LC-ωPBE/PBEsol/B88; and the middle-range corrected HISS functional.

He is co-author of 11 papers and 1 book chapter on peer-reviewed international journals and he presented 6 oral contributions (1 of them also published as Conference Proceeding) to national and international conferences.

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