Simona Achilli

My research activity focus on the electronic, magnetic and transport properties of low dimensional systems studied via Density Functional Theory ab initio methods.

I get my PhD in 2010 with a dissertation on the properties of thin films and isolated atoms on metal surface studied by means of the extended substrate approach.

During my years as a postdoc I started to explore the fascinating world of graphene studying the interaction between the carbon sheet and the metal surfaces and the electronic transport in graphene-based nano-junctions. I worked in different universities around Milan and at the Catalan Institute of NanoScience and Nanotechnology (ICN2).

Since 2020 I joined the Milan Lab for Materials simulations and I'm currently a tenure track researcher.

I am firmly convinced that the synergy between theoreticians and experimentalists is of fundamental importance in condensed matter physics, allowing for future technological advancement. For this reason my research activity is guided by the collaboration with experimental groups in Italy and abroad.

I currently take part in the Nanoscale Foundries and Fine Analysis European project (nffa.eu), as responsible of trans-national user projects and I a member of the steering committee of the European Spectroscopy Theoretical Facilities (etsf.eu)

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