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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2019 - David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics
  • 2018 - Materials Theory Award, Materials Research Society “For the development of advanced first-principles simulation methods and their application to the understanding, prediction and design of complex nanostructured materials

Overview

Giulia Galli is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio primarily focused on materials science and engineering. Their work includes significant contributions to subfields such as materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, geophysics, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

Their research topics cover a wide range of areas, including diamond and carbon-based materials research, electronic and structural properties of oxides, semiconductor materials and devices, quantum and electron transport phenomena, high-pressure geophysics and materials, machine learning in materials science, and advanced chemical physics studies.

Recent notable publications by Giulia Galli include:

  • Quantum guidelines for solid-state spin defects (2021) published in Nature Reviews Materials
  • DFT exchange: sharing perspectives on the workhorse of quantum chemistry and materials science (2022) in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • The impact of surface composition on the interfacial energetics and photoelectrochemical properties of BiVO4 (2021) in Nature Energy
  • The Role of Surface Oxygen Vacancies in BiVO4 (2020) in Chemistry of Materials
  • Five-second coherence of a single spin with single-shot readout in silicon carbide (2022) in Science Advances

Frequent collaborators include:

  • D. D. Awschalom
  • Mykyta Onizhuk
  • Marco Govoni
  • Yu Jin
  • Arpan Kundu

Giulia Galli's work has been published in several recurring venues, reflecting a diversity of research outputs:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Physical Review Materials
  • npj Computational Materials

Awards received by Giulia Galli include:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2020)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020)
  • David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics (2019)
  • Materials Theory Award, Materials Research Society (2018) for the development of advanced first-principles simulation methods and their application to the understanding, prediction and design of complex nanostructured materials

Best Publications

  • Emerging Photoluminescence in Monolayer MoS2

    Andrea Splendiani;Liang Sun;Yuanbo Zhang;Tianshu Li

  • Electronic properties of MoS2 nanoparticles

    Tianshu Li;Giulia Galli

  • Towards an assessment of the accuracy of density functional theory for first principles simulations of water

    Jeffrey C. Grossman;Eric Schwegler;Erik W. Draeger;François Gygi

  • Simultaneous enhancements in photon absorption and charge transport of bismuth vanadate photoanodes for solar water splitting

    Tae Woo Kim;Yuan Ping;Giulia A. Galli;Kyoung-Shin Choi

  • Water Confined in Nanotubes and between Graphene Sheets: A First Principle Study

    Giancarlo Cicero;Jeffrey C Grossman;Eric Schwegler;Francois Gygi

  • Surface Chemistry of Silicon Nanoclusters

    Aaron Puzder;A. J. Williamson;Jeffrey C. Grossman;Giulia Galli

  • Towards an assessment of the accuracy of density functional theory for first principles simulations of water II

    E. Schwegler;G. C. Grossman;F. Gygi;G. Galli

  • X-ray Absorption Spectra Of Water From First Principles Calculations

    David Prendergast;David Prendergast;Giulia Galli;Giulia Galli

  • Quantum Confinement and Fullerenelike Surface Reconstructions in Nanodiamonds

    Jean-Yves Raty;Jean-Yves Raty;Giulia Galli;C. Bostedt;Tony W. van Buuren

  • The Effect of Organic Ligand Binding on the Growth of CdSe Nanoparticles Probed by Ab Initio Calculations

    Aaron Puzder;Andrew J. Williamson;Natalia Zaitseva;Giulia Galli

  • Quantum guidelines for solid-state spin defects

    Gary Wolfowicz;Gary Wolfowicz;F. Joseph Heremans;F. Joseph Heremans;Christopher P. Anderson;Shun Kanai

  • Selective dispersion of high purity semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes with regioregular poly(3-alkylthiophene)s

    Hang Woo Lee;Yeohoon Yoon;Steve Park;Joon Hak Oh;Joon Hak Oh

  • Growth of carbon nanotubes on metal nanoparticles: a microscopic mechanism from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations.

    Jean-Yves Raty;Jean-Yves Raty;François Gygi;Giulia Galli

  • Structural and electronic properties of amorphous carbon.

    Giulia Galli;Richard M. Martin;Roberto Car;Michele Parrinello

  • A quantum fluid of metallic hydrogen suggested by first-principles calculations

    Stanimir A. Bonev;Eric Schwegler;Tadashi Ogitsu;Giulia Galli

  • Self-consistent hybrid functional for condensed systems

    Jonathan H. Skone;Marco Govoni;Giulia Galli

  • Perovskites for Solar Thermoelectric Applications: A First Principle Study of CH3NH3AI3 (A = Pb and Sn)

    Yuping He;Giulia Galli

  • Large scale GW calculations.

    Marco Govoni;Marco Govoni;Giulia Galli;Giulia Galli

  • Nanoporous Si as an Efficient Thermoelectric Material

    Joo-Hyoung Lee;Giulia A Galli;Jeffrey C Grossman

  • Tuning colloidal quantum dot band edge positions through solution-phase surface chemistry modification.

    Daniel M. Kroupa;Márton Vörös;Nicholas P. Brawand;Brett W. McNichols

  • Atomistic simulations of heat transport in silicon nanowires.

    Davide Donadio;Giulia Galli

Frequent Co-Authors

Francois Gygi
Francois Gygi University of California, Davis
Davide Donadio
Davide Donadio University of California, Davis
Adam Gali
Adam Gali Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Roberto Car
Roberto Car Princeton University
David Prendergast
David Prendergast Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Filippo de Braud
Filippo de Braud University of Milan
Juan J. de Pablo
Juan J. de Pablo New York University
David D. Awschalom
David D. Awschalom Argonne National Laboratory

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