Massimo is a group leader in the Physics department in the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste. His research focuses He earned an ERC Starting Grant in 2010 for the project SUPERBAD, in which he studied the interplay between bad metallicity and superconductivity in strongly correlated systems.

We currently work together studying the effects of multi-orbital electronic correlations on the transport properties of strongly correlated superconductors and topological materials.


Adriano is CNR Researcher at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste.

We work together developing new highly efficient computational tools to accurately address the electronic structure of strongly correlated systems.


Laura is a Marie Curie Global Fellow currently working as a postdoc in the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste.

We work together studying the effects of multi-orbital electronic correlations on topological superconductors.


Prof. Luca de' Medici
LPEM-ESPCI Paris, France

Luca is the leader of the Group of Theory of Strongly Correlated Systems in the Laboratory of Physics and Materials Studies in the School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry of Paris. He is the recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2016 for the project StrongCoPhy4Energy, in which he studies ways to boost superconductivity and thermoelectric properties in correlated electron systems.

We carried out research on iron-based superconductors, in particular studying the Hund-driven Fermi liquid instabilities that may boost superconductivity in these systems.

Prof. Olle Heinonen
Argonne National Laboratory, US

Olle is a Senior Materials Scientist in the Materials Science Division in Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago. He is a Thrust leader in the Center for Predictive Simulations of Functional Materials, deputy director in the Engineering Frontier Research Center ​“Center for the Advancement of Topological Semimetals”, and he leads strategies for artificial intelligence in science in the Physical Sciences and Engineering Directorate.

We worked together studying different ways to engineer surface states in 3D Dirac semi-metals with strain and different electromagnetic fields.

Prof. Michael R. Norman
Argonne National Laboratory, US

Mike is an Argonne Distinguished Fellow, and the former Director of the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He was also a principal investigator in the Center for Emergent Superconductivity, a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center. He became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1995, received the University of Chicago Distinguished Performance Award in 1999.

We worked together studying the magnetic properties of superconducting nickelates and the electronic structure of the new 2D electron gas superconductor found in (111) KTaO3 interfaces.

Dr. Andres Cano
Institut Néel, France

Andres is a CNRS Researcher and is in charge of the Condensed Matter Theory Group at the Néel Institute in Grenoble.

In the past we worked together in studying the magnetic properties of iron pnictides and germanides and we are currently studying the multi-orbital correlation effects in effective models aimed describe the physics of novel nickelate superconductors.

Prof. Fabio Bernardini
Universitá di Cagliari, Italy

Fabio is a Professor in the University of Cagliari, in Sardinia (Italy).

In the past we worked together in studying the magnetic properties of iron-based germanide and silicide superconductors. We are currently working on developing effective models from ab initio calculations in novel nickelate superconductors.


Prof. Víctor Pardo
Universidade Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Víctor is a group leader at the Department of Applied Physics and recently became Associate Professor at University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He won a Ramón y Cajal fellowship in 2012 for a project to perform ab initio studies of oxides and oxide nanostructures.

We worked together studying potential ways to develop highly efficient thermoelectric materials using quantum engineering in double perovskite oxides.