Stefano Sanvito

Stefano Sanvito is an Italian physicist and academic, currently the Chair of Condensed Matter Theory at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. He is Director of the CRANN Institute and a principal investigator at AMBER Centre, where he leads the Computational Spintronics Group. Sanvito is one of the developers of Smeagol, a software for nanoscale device modeling. He has a h-index of 82 with over 32,000 citations.

Education Sanvito received his Laurea (BSc + MSc equivalent) in Theoretical Physics from the University of Milan in 1994.

Career Sanvito began his research career as a research assistant at the University of Milan and Pirelli Cavi. From 1999 to 2002, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he worked on the theory of magnetic semiconductors. Deputy Director of CRANN (2009–2013), Director of AMBER Centre (2013–2015) and Director of CRANN (2013–present). 2013 – Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics 2016 – Elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy 2020–2023 – Recognized as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher

Selected publications Rocha, A. R., et al. "Towards molecular spintronics." Nature Materials 4.4 (2005): 335. Motta, C., et al. "Revealing the role of organic cations in hybrid halide perovskites." Nature Communications 6 (2015): 7026. Lunghi, A., et al. "The role of anharmonic phonons in spin relaxation." Nature Communications 8 (2017): 14620. Sanvito, S., et al. "Accelerated discovery of new magnets in the Heusler alloy family." Science Advances 3 (2017): e1602241.