Sandro Scandolo

Permanent Scientific Staff
Senior Research Scientist and Senior Coordinator, Research & Partnerships
Sandro Scandolo
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
+39 040 2240 209
scandolo@ictp.it
+39 040 2240 209
scandolo@ictp.it
LB-248
0000-0003-3826-4813

Sandro Scandolo

I coordinate the ICTP Research Division and I am a member of the CMSP Section. My main area of research is the computational modeling of materials at extreme conditions of pressure and temperature

I hold a PhD in Physics from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. I was Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy, until 2002, and Visiting Research Staff at Princeton University between 2000 and 2002. In 2002 I moved to the ICTP as Senior Scientist in the Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics section. I am an expert in the computational modeling of materials at extreme conditions of pressure and temperature and I am one of the co-founders of the Quantum-Espresso project for the modelling of materials at the nanoscale. My papers have been cited more than 30,000 times (Google Scholar). I have organised more than 40 conferences and workshops and supervised more than 40 postgraduate and PhD students. I am a member of the editorial board of High-Pressure Research, of the scientific advisory board of Psi-k, and of the executive board of the “Lightsources for Americas, Asia, Africa, Middle-East, and Pacific” (LAAAMP) project. I am the Deputy Secretary General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and Vice-President of the Trieste International Foundation. I was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2016.  

Publications

Journal article
2004
Trapping of excitons at chemical defects in polyethylene
The Journal of Chemical Physics (2004)
Serra, S | Santoro, G | Scandolo, S | Tosatti, E | Ceresoli, D
Journal article
2004
Back to square one for superfluidity
Physics World (2004)
Santoro, G | Scandolo, S
Journal article
2004
Organic molecular crystals in electric fields
Surface Science (2004)
Tosatti, E | Scandolo, S | Dal Corso, A | Tobik, J
Journal article
2004
Thermal conductivity of crystalline quartz from classical simulations
Physical Review B (2004)
Scandolo, S | Srolovitz, DJ | Car, R | Yoon, YG
Journal article
2004
Thermal conductivity of solid argon at high pressure and high temperature: A molecular dynamics study
The Journal of Chemical Physics (2004)
Scandolo, S | Tretiakov, KV
Journal article
2003
The centers of planets
American Scientist (2003)
Jeanloz, R | Scandolo, S
Journal article
2003
A many-body interatomic potential for ionic systems: Application to MgO
The Journal of Chemical Physics (2003)
Scandolo, S | Tangney, P
Journal article
2003
Electronic properties of metal-molecule-metal systems at zero bias: A periodic density functional study
The Journal of Chemical Physics (2003)
Scoles, G | Car, R | Scandolo, S | Selloni, A | Piccinin, S
Journal article
2003
Liquid-liquid phase transition in compressed hydrogen from first-principles simulations
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2003)
Scandolo, S
Journal article
2002
Self-trapping vs. non-trapping of electrons and holes in organic insulators: polyethylene
Chemical Physics Letters (2002)
Santoro, GE | Righi, MC | Scandolo, S | Tosatti, E | Iarlori, S | Serra, S
Journal article
2002
An ab initio parametrized interatomic force field for silica
The Journal of Chemical Physics (2002)
Scandolo, S | Tangney, P
Journal article
2002
Disproportionation phenomena on free and strained Sn/Ge(111) and Sn/Si(111) surfaces
Physical Review Letters (2002)
Tosatti, E | Santoro, GE | Scandolo, S | de Gironcoli, S | Profeta, G | Ballabio, G
Journal article
2002
How well do Car-Parrinello simulations reproduce the Born-Oppenheimer surface? Theory and examples
The Journal of Chemical Physics (2002)
Scandolo, S | Tangney, P
Journal article
2002
Molecular simulations break the ice
Physics World (2002)
Tosatti, E | Scandolo, S
Journal article
2002
Pressure-induced structural changes in liquid SiO(2) from ab initio simulations
Physical Review Letters (2002)
Car, R | Pasquarello, A | Scandolo, S | Tangney, P | Trave, A
Journal article
2001
Spatial-dispersion and relativistic effects in the optical sum rules
The European Physical Journal B (2001)
Lucarini, V | Bassani, F | Scandolo, S
Journal article
2001
Surface charge density waves and the Mott insulators for root 3 x root 3 adlayers on (111) semiconductor surfaces
Computational Materials Science (2001)
Tosatti, E | Scandolo, S | Santoro, G
Journal article
2001
Surface states and negative electron affinity in polyethylene
Physical Review Letters (2001)
Santoro, G | Tosatti, E | Iarlori, S | Serra, S | Scandolo, S | Righi, MC
Journal article
2000
SiC(0001): A surface Mott-Hubbard insulator
Physical Review B-solid State (2000)
Tosatti, E | Scandolo, S | Santoro, G | Korotin, MA | Bedin, AE | Anisimov, VI
Journal article
2000
Dynamical and thermal properties of polyethylene by ab initio simulation
Chemical Physics Letters (2000)
Santoro, G | Scandolo, S | Tosatti, E | Iarlori, S | Serra, S | Santoro, G | Scandolo, S | Tosatti, E | Iarlori, S | Serra, S
Journal article
2000
Spectroscopic fingerprints of a surface Mott-Hubbard insulator: the case of SiC(0001)
Surface Science (2000)
Tosatti, E | Scandolo, S | Santoro, G
Journal article
2000
Interchain electron states in polyethylene
Physical Review B-solid State (2000)
Santoro, G | Scandolo, S | Iarlori, S | Tosatti, E | Serra, S
Journal article
2000
The mechanism for the 3 x 3 distortion of Sn/Ge(111)
Surface Science (2000)
Tosatti, E | Santoro, G | Ballabio, G | Scandolo, S | de Gironcoli, S
Journal article
2000
Noncolinear spin polarization from frustrated antiferromagnetism: A possible scenario for molecular oxygen at high pressure
Physical Review B-solid State (2000)
Tosatti, E | Baroni, S | Scandolo, S | Chiarotti, GL | Serra, S | Gebauer, R
Journal article
2000
root 3X root 3R30 degrees versus adatom-rest-atom phases on (111) semiconductor surfaces
Physical Review B (2000)
Tosatti, E | Scandolo, S | Ballabio, G
Journal article
2000
Optimal basis set for electronic structure calculations in periodic systems
Physical Review B-solid State (2000)
Kohanoff, J | Scandolo, S
Journal article
2000
Physics of iron at Earth's core conditions
Science (2000)
Tosatti, E | Scandolo, S | Chiarotti, GL | Bernard, S | Laio, A
Journal article
2000
Diamonds in the sky?
Physics World (2000)
Tosatti, E | Chiarotti, G | Scandolo, S
Journal article
1999
Elasticity and mechanical instabilities of diamond at megabar stresses: Implications for diamond-anvil-cell research
Applied Physics Letters (1999)
Tosatti, E | Chiarotti, GL | Kohanoff, J | Scandolo, S | Zhao, JJ
Journal article
1999
IRON AT EARTH'S CORE CONDITIONS: AN AB-INITIO SIMULATION STUDY
Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances (1999)
Tosatti, E. | Bernard, S. | Scandolo, S. | Laio, A. | Chiarotti, G. L.

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