BORN: 1964, Trieste (Italy).
EDUCATION:
1988, Degree 'Dottore in Fisica', Trieste (Italy).
1992, PhD in Physics, EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland).
SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:
- Vibrational properties of extended systems.
- Thermal properties of extended systems,
studied within the quasi-harmonic approximation.
- Thermodynamical properties of substitutional
alloys.
- Pressure-induced lattice instabilities
of materials.
- Electronic, structural, and dynamical properties
of metal surfaces.
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION:
About 50 scientific papers published in international journals and
refereed conference proceedings. These papers have been cited in
more than 700 other scientific articles in the international literature
(1000 hits) over the past 10 years (source: ISI, November 2001).
Among SdG's papers, ten of the most significant are:
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- S. Baroni, S. de Gironcoli, A. Dal Corso,
and P. Giannozzi, "Phonons and related
crystal properties from density-functional perturbation theory'',
Rev. Mod. Phys. 73, 515 (2001).
- B.B. Karki, R.M. Wentzcovitch, S. de Gironcoli,
and S. Baroni, "Elastic anisotropy
and wave velocity of MgO at lower mantle conditions'',
Science, 286, 1705 (1999); erratum, ibid., 287, 43 (2000).
- D. Alfè, S. de Gironcoli, and S. Baroni,
"The reconstruction of Ni and Rh (001)
surfaces upon Carbon, Nitrogen, or Oxygen adsorption'',
Surf. Sci., 437, 18 (1999).
- A.M. Saitta, S. de Gironcoli, and S. Baroni,
"Structural and Electronic Properties
of a Wide-Gap Quaternary Solid Solution: (Zn,Mg)(S,Se)'',
Phys. Rev. Lett., 80, 4939 (1998).
- M. Lazzeri, and S. de Gironcoli, "Ab-Initio
Study of Be (0001) Surface Thermal Expansion'', Phys. Rev.
Lett., 81, 2096 (1998).
- A.M. Saitta, D. Alfè, S. de Gironcoli,
and S. Baroni, "Phonon softening and
elastic instabilities in the cubic-to-orthorhombic structural
transition of CsH'', Phys. Rev. Lett., 78, 4958 (1997).
- C. Bungaro, S. de Gironcoli, and S. Baroni,
"Theory of the anomalous Rayleigh dispersion
at H/W(110) surfaces'', Phys. Rev. Lett., 77, 2491 (1996).
- S. de Gironcoli, "Lattice
dynamics of metals from density-functional perturbation theory'',
Phys. Rev. (RC) B, 51, 6773 (1995).
- N. Marzari, S. de Gironcoli, and S. Baroni,
"Structure and phase stability of Ga(x)In(1-x)P
solid solutions computational alchemy'', Phys. Rev. Lett.,
72, 4001 (1994).
- S. de Gironcoli, P. Giannozzi, and S. Baroni,
"Structure and thermodynamics of Si(x)Ge(1-x)
alloys from ab-initio Monte Carlo simulations'', Phys.
Rev. Lett., 66, 2116 (1991).
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