2026 Silvia Picozzi: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	74	3480	3306	186	183	308	17260

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Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering contributions to the fundamental understanding of microscopic mechanisms linking magnetic and electric dipolar degrees of freedom, through advanced modeling of ferroelectrics, antiferromagnets, and multiferroics

Overview

Silvia Picozzi is affiliated with the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Physics and Astronomy, with a significant focus on materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, condensed matter physics, atomic and molecular physics, optics, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their work has addressed various advanced topics, including 2D materials and applications, magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials, advanced condensed matter physics, multiferroics and related materials, electronic and structural properties of oxides, magnetic properties of thin films, and ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials.

Among the notable recent papers authored are the following:

Evidence for a single-layer van der Waals multiferroic, 2022, Nature
Room-temperature ferroelectric switching of spin-to-charge conversion in germanium telluride, 2021, Nature Electronics
Curved Magnetism in CrI₃, 2022, Physical Review Letters
Spin Hall effect in prototype Rashba ferroelectrics GeTe and SnTe, 2020, npj Computational Materials
Interplay of altermagnetism and weak ferromagnetism in two-dimensional RuF₄, 2024, 2D Materials

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Paolo Barone, Wei Ren, Danila Amoroso, Srdjan Stavrić, and P. D. C. King.

Publication venues where Silvia Picozzi has been frequently published are:

Physical Review B
arXiv (Cornell University)
2D Materials
Physical Review Materials
Nature

Their research addresses microscopic mechanisms linking magnetic and electric dipolar degrees of freedom, often involving modeling of ferroelectrics, antiferromagnets, and multiferroics. Silvia Picozzi was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2019, with a citation highlighting contributions to understanding these fundamental mechanisms.

Best Publications

Above-room-temperature ferroelectricity in a single-component molecular crystal

Sachio Horiuchi;Yusuke Tokunaga;Gianluca Giovannetti;Silvia Picozzi

802
Citations
Co2MnX (X=Si, Ge, Sn) Heusler compounds: An ab initio study of their structural, electronic, and magnetic properties at zero and elevated pressure

S. Picozzi;A. Continenza;Arthur J Freeman

801
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Role of structural defects on the half-metallic character of Co 2 MnGe and Co 2 MnSi Heusler alloys

S. Picozzi;A. Continenza;Arthur J Freeman

530
Citations
Electric Control of the Giant Rashba Effect in Bulk GeTe

Domenico Di Sante;Paolo Barone;Riccardo Bertacco;Silvia Picozzi

494
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Dual nature of improper ferroelectricity in a magnetoelectric multiferroic.

Silvia Picozzi;Kunihiko Yamauchi;Biplab Sanyal;Ivan A. Sergienko;Ivan A. Sergienko

386
Citations
Hybrid Improper Ferroelectricity in a Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Metal‐Organic Framework

Alessandro Stroppa;Paolo Barone;Prashant Jain;Jean Manuel Perez-Mato

354
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Electric Control of Magnetization and Interplay between Orbital Ordering and Ferroelectricity in a Multiferroic Metal–Organic Framework

Alessandro Stroppa;Prashant Jain;Paolo Barone;Martijn Marsman

317
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Tunable ferroelectric polarization and its interplay with spin-orbit coupling in tin iodide perovskites.

Alessandro Stroppa;Domenico Di Sante;Paolo Barone;Menno Bokdam

307
Citations
Tuning the Ferroelectric Polarization in a Multiferroic Metal–Organic Framework

Domenico Di Sante;Alessandro Stroppa;Prashant Jain;Silvia Picozzi

305
Citations
Role of Polar Phonons in the Photo Excited State of Metal Halide Perovskites

Menno Bokdam;Tobias Sander;Alessandro Stroppa;Silvia Picozzi

296
Citations
First principles studies of multiferroic materials

Silvia Picozzi;Claude Ederer

272
Citations
Electronic structure and ferromagnetism of Mn-doped group-IV semiconductors

A. Stroppa;S. Picozzi;A. Continenza;Arthur J Freeman

265
Citations
NO2 and CO gas adsorption on carbon nanotubes: Experiment and theory

S. Santucci;S. Picozzi;F. Di Gregorio;L. Lozzi

228
Citations
Electric control of magnetism at the Fe/BaTiO3 interface

Greta Radaelli;Daniela Petti;E. Plekhanov;I. Fina

222
Citations
Cross coupling between electric and magnetic orders in a multiferroic metal-organic framework

Ying Tian;Alessandro Stroppa;Yisheng Chai;Liqin Yan

213
Citations
Giant Rashba‐Type Spin Splitting in Ferroelectric GeTe(111)

Marcus Liebmann;Christian Rinaldi;Domenico Di Sante;Jens Kellner

212
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Coordination and chemical effects on the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties in Mn pnictides

A. Continenza;S. Picozzi;W. T. Geng;Arthur J Freeman

200
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Ferroelectric Switching in Multiferroic Magnetite (Fe3O4) Thin Films

Marin Alexe;Michael Ziese;Dietrich Hesse;Pablo Esquinazi

194
Citations
Spin-phonon coupling effects in transition-metal perovskites: A DFT + U and hybrid-functional study

Jiawang Hong;Alessandro Stroppa;Jorge Íñiguez;Silvia Picozzi

193
Citations
Hybrid functional study of proper and improper multiferroics

A. Stroppa;S. Picozzi

174
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