Yearly Archives: 2018


An international collaboration of researchers from China, US, Switzerland and Trinity College, Dublin, has published in Nature on the Quantum Hall effect based on Weyl orbits in cadmium arsenide (Cd3As2). The quantum Hall effect, which can be observed as a change in the electrical characteristics of a 2D material at […]

Research opens new routes to quantum technologies


The Springer Handbook on Materials Modeling is now out. This is a very ambitious editorial project, looking at all aspects of materials modeling. The book is structured over two main blocks, one dedicated to formal theory development and the other to applications. Prof. Sanvito has edited two volumes of the […]

New Handbook on Materials Modeling is now out





Congratulation to Gokaran Shukla, who defended his PhD thesis on October the 19th in front of internal examiner, Prof. Mauro Ferreira, and external examiner, Prof. Benjamin Braun (University College Dublin). Gokaran’s thesis is focused on the ab initio investigation of new magnetic tunnel junctions, alternative to the conventional FeCoB/Mg system. […]

Congratulation to Gokaran Shukla for his PhD defence