Group PI#
Biosketch#
Feliciano Giustino is Professor of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin and holds the Moncrief Chair in Quantum Materials Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2005 and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley (2005-2008). Before joining UT Austin, he was Professor of Materials Science at the University of Oxford (2008-2019) and the Mary Shepard B. Upson Professor in Engineering at Cornell University (2017-2018). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, and recipient of a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award, a Moncrief Grand Challenge Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Physics of the Centennial Class. He serves on the Executive Editorial Board of JPhys Materials and as Associate Editor of Journal of Computational Electronics. His research focuses on electronic structure theory, high-performance computing, and the quantum design of advanced materials. He has authored over 180 scientific publications and a monograph on density-functional theory published by Oxford University Press, and he initiated the open-source EPW software project, used in the study of electron–phonon interactions.
Curriculum vitae#
Current positions#
2019- |
W.A. “Tex” Moncrief, Jr. Chair of Quantum Materials Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin |
2019- |
Professor of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin |
2019- |
Principal Faculty Member, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin |
Professional preparation#
2005-2008 |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley |
2005 |
Ph.D. in Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland |
2001 |
M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy |
2000-2001 |
Research Fellow, Experimental Physics Division, CERN, Switzerland |
Previous roles#
2017-2018 |
Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Professor in Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Cornell University |
2014-2019 |
Professor, Department of Materials, University of Oxford |
2013-2014 |
Associate Professor, Department of Materials, University of Oxford |
2009-2019 |
Trustee and Governing Body Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford |
2008-2013 |
Assistant Professor (University Lecturer), Department of Materials, University of Oxford |
Honors#
2025 |
Guggenheim Fellow in Physics, Centennial Class |
2025 |
Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (7 years in a row 2019-2025) |
2023 |
Moncrief Grand Challenge Award, The University of Texas at Austin |
2020 |
Fellow of the American Physical Society |
2019 |
Chair, W. A. “Tex” Moncrief, Jr. Endowment in Simulation-Based Engineering Sciences The University of Texas at Austin |
2017 |
Appointed as the Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Professor in Engineering, Cornell University |
2012 |
Leverhulme Research Leadership Award, Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom |
2009 |
ERC Starting Grant, European Research Council |
Webpages#
Faculty page at the Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
Faculty page at the Oden Institute, University of Texas at Austin
Google Scholar page