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  • 2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For tireless promotion of young scientists, research in Africa and less developed countries, and decisive knowledge of the physics of high pressure systems and of solid surfaces

Overview

Sandro Scandolo is affiliated with the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Geophysics. Additional areas of study include Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, Biomedical Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientific topics addressed in Scandolo's work encompass:

  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Nuclear Physics and Applications
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies

Frequent collaborators include Zhi Li, Victor Naden Robinson, Graeme J. Ackland, Hongxiang Zong, and Andreas Hermann. Their publications have appeared mainly in venues such as Physical Review B, Geophysical Research Letters, arXiv (Cornell University), Nature Physics, and Physical Review Letters.

Notable recent publications by Sandro Scandolo include:

  • Free electron to electride transition in dense liquid potassium (2021), Nature Physics
  • Ab initio Determination of the Phase Diagram of CO2 at High Pressures and Temperatures (2020), Physical Review Letters
  • Squeezing Oil into Water under Pressure: Inverting the Hydrophobic Effect (2020), The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • High-pressure transformations in liquid rubidium (2020), Physical Review Materials
  • Elasticity and Viscosity of hcp Iron at Earth's Inner Core Conditions From Machine Learning-Based Large-Scale Atomistic Simulations (2022), Geophysical Research Letters

In 2016, Scandolo was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for contributions to the promotion of young scientists, research in Africa and less developed countries, and knowledge in the physics of high pressure systems and solid surfaces.

Best Publications

  • QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials

    Paolo Giannozzi;Stefano Baroni;Stefano Baroni;Nicola Bonini;Matteo Calandra

  • Quantum ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials

    P. Giannozzi;S. Baroni;N. Bonini;M. Calandra

  • Synthesis of novel transition metal nitrides IrN2 and OsN2.

    Andrea F. Young;Andrea F. Young;Chrystele Sanloup;Eugene Gregoryanz;Eugene Gregoryanz;Sandro Scandolo;Sandro Scandolo

  • Superionic and Metallic States of Water and Ammonia at Giant Planet Conditions

    C. Cavazzoni;G. L. Chiarotti;S. Scandolo;E. Tosatti

  • Nonparabolicity and a sum rule associated with bound-to-bound and bound-to-continuum intersubband transitions in quantum wells

    Carlo Sirtori;Federico Capasso;Jérôme Faist;Sandro Scandolo

  • Physics of iron at Earth's core conditions

    A. Laio;S. Bernard;G. L. Chiarotti;S. Scandolo;S. Scandolo

  • X-ray Diffraction and Computation Yield the Structure of Alkanethiols on Gold(111)

    A. Cossaro;R. Mazzarello;R. Rousseau;L. Casalis

  • Structure of a CH3S monolayer on Au(111) solved by the interplay between molecular dynamics calculations and diffraction measurements.

    Riccardo Mazzarello;Riccardo Mazzarello;Albano Cossaro;Alberto Verdini;R Rousseau

  • First-principles codes for computational crystallography in the Quantum-ESPRESSO package

    Sandro Scandolo;Paolo Giannozzi;Carlo Cavazzoni;Stefano de Gironcoli

  • An ab initio parametrized interatomic force field for silica

    P. Tangney;S. Scandolo

  • Metal Work-Function Changes Induced by Organic Adsorbates: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study

    V. De Renzi;R. Rousseau;D. Marchetto;R. Biagi

  • Pressure-Induced Transformation Path of Graphite to Diamond.

    S. Scandolo;M. Bernasconi;G. L. Chiarotti;P. Focher

  • Liquid-liquid phase transition in compressed hydrogen from first-principles simulations

    Sandro Scandolo

  • Dissociation of Methane into Hydrocarbons at Extreme (Planetary) Pressure and Temperature

    F. Ancilotto;G. L. Chiarotti;S. Scandolo;E. Tosatti

  • Amorphous silica-like carbon dioxide.

    Mario Santoro;Mario Santoro;Federico A. Gorelli;Federico A. Gorelli;Roberto Bini;Roberto Bini;Giancarlo Ruocco

  • FIRST-PRINCIPLE-CONSTANT PRESSURE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS

    M. Bernasconi;G.L. Chiarotti;P. Focher;S. Scandolo

  • Carbon phase diagram from ab initio molecular dynamics.

    Xiaofei Wang;Sandro Scandolo;Roberto Car

  • Thermal conductivity of solid argon from molecular dynamics simulations.

    Konstantin V. Tretiakov;Sandro Scandolo

  • Interstitial dinitrogen makes PtN 2 an insulating hard solid

    Andrea F. Young;Javier A. Montoya;Javier A. Montoya;Chrystele Sanloup;Michele Lazzeri

  • Pressure-induced solid carbonates from molecular CO2 by computer simulation

    S. Serra;C. Cavazzoni;G. L. Chiarotti;S. Scandolo

Frequent Co-Authors

Erio Tosatti
Erio Tosatti International School for Advanced Studies
Roberto Bini
Roberto Bini University of Florence
Roger Rousseau
Roger Rousseau Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Roberto Car
Roberto Car Princeton University
Giacinto Scoles
Giacinto Scoles University of Udine
Eugene Gregoryanz
Eugene Gregoryanz University of Edinburgh
Marco Bernasconi
Marco Bernasconi University of Milano-Bicocca
Alfredo Pasquarello
Alfredo Pasquarello École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Michele Lazzeri
Michele Lazzeri Sorbonne University

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