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Theoretical and computational electronic structure methods:
Density-Functional Theory (DFT) and Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory (TD-DFT);
Development of exchange and correlation functionals (GGA,meta-GGA,hybrid and OEP);
Quantum and classical embedding techniques;
Electronic and optical properties of organic molecules with ab inito, DFT and semiempirical methods.
Apr. 2014 and 2015: Invited professor at Ecole Centrale Paris;
2009-now: Researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR);
2008-2009: Postdoc researcher at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory of Lecce (Italy) in the group of Dr. F. Della Sala;
2006-2008 Postdoc researcher at the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung of Mülheim an der Ruhr (Germany) in the group of Prof. W. Thiel;
2006 Ph.D. in "Innovative Materials and Technologies (nanoscience)" at the University of Lecce (Italy);
2002 Graduated cum laude in physics at the university of Bari (Italy).
Scientific Productions
Correction to “Noncovalent Interactions from Models for the Møller–Plesset Adiabatic Connection”
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters [American Chemical Society], Volume: 14 Issue: 20 Pages: 1478-1478
Computational Materials Science [Elsevier], Volume: 216 Pages: 111826
J. Chem. Theory Comput [],
ACS omega [American Chemical Society], Volume: 7 Issue: 15 Pages: 12624-12636
Accurate non-covalent interactions from models for the Møller-Plesset adiabatic connection
Bulletin of the American Physical Society [American Physical Society],
Self-consistent Kohn-Sham calculations with adiabatic connection models
arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.11531 [],
Synthesis and Investigation of Electro-Optical Properties of H-Shape Dibenzofulvene Derivatives
Molecules [MDPI], Volume: 27 Issue: 3 Pages: 1091
Boosting the OEP2-sc method with spin-component scaling
Molecular Physics [],
Computation [], Volume: 10 Pages: 30
Journal of Materials Chemistry C [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 10 Issue: 15 Pages: 5981-5993
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 104 Issue: 16 Pages: 165114
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A [American Chemical Society],
Plasmon Couplings from Subsystem Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A [American Chemical Society], Volume: 125 Issue: 33 Pages: 7246-7259
Noncovalent interactions from models for the M {\o} ller-Plesset adiabatic connection
The journal of physical chemistry letters [American Chemical Society], Volume: 12 Pages: 4867-4875
Advanced Electronic Materials [], Pages: 2100166
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 103 Issue: 15 Pages: 155127
Noncovalent interactions from models for the M {\o} ller-Plesset adiabatic connection
arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.04793 [],
Bulletin of the American Physical Society [American Physical Society],
Dyes and Pigments [Elsevier], Volume: 177 Pages: 108325
MAP: an MP2 accuracy predictor for weak interactions from adiabatic connection theory
Journal of chemical theory and computation [American Chemical Society], Volume: 16 Issue: 7 Pages: 4141-4149
Methods to generate reference total and Pauli kinetic potentials
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 101 Issue: 16 Pages: 165144
The ab initio density functional theory applied for spin-polarized calculations
The Journal of chemical physics [AIP Publishing LLC], Volume: 152 Issue: 5 Pages: 054109
J. Chem. Theory Comput [], Volume: 16 Pages: 4141-4149
The Role of the Reduced Laplacian Renormalization in the Kinetic Energy Functional Development
Computation [Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute], Volume: 7 Issue: 4 Pages: 65
Dyes and Pigments [Elsevier], Volume: 171 Pages: 107780
Ab initio Plasmonics of Externally Doped Silicon Nanocrystals
ACS Photonics [American Chemical Society], Volume: 6 Issue: 6 Pages: 1474-1484
Performance of semilocal kinetic-energy functionals for Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory
Journal of chemical theory and computation [American Chemical Society], Volume: 15 Issue: 5 Pages: 3044-3055
ACS applied materials & interfaces [American Chemical Society], Volume: 11 Issue: 13 Pages: 12202-12208
Journal of chemical theory and computation [American Chemical Society], Volume: 15 Issue: 2 Pages: 1006-1015
Communication: Strong-interaction limit of an adiabatic connection in Hartree-Fock theory
The Journal of chemical physics [AIP Publishing LLC], Volume: 149 Issue: 24 Pages: 241101
Strong-interaction limit of an adiabatic connection in Hartree-Fock theory
arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.11249 [],
arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.08458 [],
The Journal of chemical physics [AIP Publishing LLC], Volume: 149 Issue: 7 Pages: 079902
Journal of Chemical Physics [], Volume: 149 Issue: 7 Pages: 1-2
Advanced Functional Materials [], Volume: 28 Issue: 32 Pages: 1801946
Chemistry of Materials [American Chemical Society], Volume: 30 Issue: 16 Pages: 5610-5620
The journal of physical chemistry letters [American Chemical Society], Volume: 9 Issue: 15 Pages: 4385-4390
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 97 Issue: 20 Pages: 205137
Restoring size consistency of approximate functionals constructed from the adiabatic connection
The journal of physical chemistry letters [American Chemical Society], Volume: 9 Issue: 11 Pages: 3137-3142
Assessment of interaction-strength interpolation formulas for gold and silver clusters
The Journal of chemical physics [AIP Publishing LLC], Volume: 148 Issue: 13 Pages: 134106
Computation [Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute], Volume: 6 Issue: 1 Pages: 7
Journal of chemical theory and computation [American Chemical Society], Volume: 13 Issue: 9 Pages: 4228-4239
Electrostatic Mechanophores in Tuneable Light‐Emitting Piezopolymer Nanowires
Advanced Materials [], Volume: 29 Issue: 29 Pages: 1701031
Dispersion corrections applied to the TCA family of exchange-correlation functionals
Theoretical Chemistry Accounts [Springer Berlin Heidelberg], Volume: 136 Issue: 8 Pages: 1-11
Effects of donor position on dibenzofulvene-based organic dyes for photovoltaics
Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics [Springer US], Volume: 28 Issue: 12 Pages: 8694-8707
Jellium-with-gap model applied to semilocal kinetic functionals
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 95 Issue: 11 Pages: 115153
The Journal of chemical physics [AIP Publishing LLC], Volume: 146 Issue: 6 Pages: 064105
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 19 Issue: 44 Pages: 30249-30260
Chemical Communications [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 53 Issue: 64 Pages: 8960-8963
Chemical Communications [Royal Society of Chemistry],
Journal of chemical theory and computation [American Chemical Society], Volume: 12 Issue: 10 Pages: 4885-4896
Advanced Functional Materials [], Volume: 26 Issue: 38 Pages: 6970-6984
Synthesis and photovoltaic performance of dibenzofulvene-based organic sensitizers for DSSC
Tetrahedron [Pergamon], Volume: 72 Issue: 38 Pages: 5788-5797
Hartree potential dependent exchange functional
The Journal of chemical physics [AIP Publishing LLC], Volume: 145 Issue: 8 Pages: 084110
Journal of computational chemistry [], Volume: 37 Issue: 22 Pages: 2081-2090
Exploiting Photo-and Electroluminescence Properties of FIrpic Organic Crystals
Inorganic chemistry [American Chemical Society], Volume: 55 Issue: 13 Pages: 6532-6538
Synthesis and characterization of a new series of dibenzofulvene based organic dyes for DSSCs
Dyes and Pigments [Elsevier], Volume: 130 Pages: 79-89
Tetrahedron [Pergamon], Volume: 72 Issue: 22 Pages: 2920-2928
Kinetic and Exchange Energy Densities near the Nucleus
Computation [Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute], Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Pages: 19
[1] Benzothieno [3, 2-b] benzothiophene-Based Organic Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
The Journal of organic chemistry [American Chemical Society], Volume: 81 Issue: 8 Pages: 3235-3245
Semilocal density functional theory with correct surface asymptotics
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 93 Issue: 11 Pages: 115127
Semiclassical atom theory applied to solid-state physics
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 93 Issue: 4 Pages: 045126
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C [American Chemical Society], Volume: 119 Issue: 49 Pages: 27200-27211
Assessment of the TCA functional in computational chemistry and solid-state physics
Theoretical Chemistry Accounts [Springer Berlin Heidelberg], Volume: 134 Issue: 11 Pages: 1-14
Accurate non-covalent interaction energies via an efficient MP2 scaling procedure
Chemical Physics Letters [North-Holland], Volume: 635 Pages: 262-267
The Journal of chemical physics [AIP Publishing LLC], Volume: 142 Issue: 15 Pages: 154121
Journal of the American Chemical Society [American Chemical Society], Volume: 137 Issue: 5 Pages: 1875-1886
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 91 Issue: 4 Pages: 041120
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 91 Issue: 3 Pages: 035126
Global hybrids from the semiclassical atom theory satisfying the local density linear response
Journal of chemical theory and computation [American Chemical Society], Volume: 11 Issue: 1 Pages: 122-131
Journal of Materials Chemistry B [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 3 Issue: 16 Pages: 3315-3323
Global hybrids from the semiclassical atom theory satisfying the local density linear response
Journal of chemical theory and computation [American Chemical Society], Volume: 11 Issue: 1 Pages: 122-131
Wave Function and Density Functional Theory Studies of Dihydrogen Complexes
Journal of chemical theory and computation [American Chemical Society], Volume: 10 Issue: 8 Pages: 3151-3162
Advanced Functional Materials [], Volume: 24 Issue: 31 Pages: 4943-4951
The Journal of chemical physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 141 Issue: 2 Pages: 024113
Journal of chemical theory and computation [American Chemical Society], Volume: 10 Issue: 5 Pages: 2016-2026
Frozen density embedding with non-integer subsystems’ particle numbers
The Journal of chemical physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 140 Issue: 11 Pages: 114101
A density difference based analysis of orbital-dependent exchange-correlation functionals
Molecular Physics [Taylor & Francis], Volume: 112 Issue: 5-6 Pages: 700-710
Journal of chemical theory and computation [American Chemical Society], Volume: 10 Issue: 1 Pages: 164-179
New organic dyes based on a dibenzofulvene bridge for highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells
Journal of Materials Chemistry A [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 2 Issue: 34 Pages: 14181-14188
RSC Advances [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 4 Issue: 78 Pages: 41398-41410
Journal of chemical theory and computation [American Chemical Society], Volume: 10 Issue: 1 Pages: 164-179
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 88 Issue: 12 Pages: 125112
Computational Molecular Photophysics
Handbook of Molecular Plasmonics [CRC Press], Pages: 175
The Journal of Chemical Physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 138 Issue: 20 Pages: 209901
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry [Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company], Volume: 113 Issue: 10 Pages: 1600-1600
Meta-GGA exchange-correlation functional with a balanced treatment of nonlocality
Journal of chemical theory and computation [American Chemical Society], Volume: 9 Issue: 5 Pages: 2256-2263
The European Physical Journal B [Springer-Verlag], Volume: 86 Issue: 4 Pages: 1-6
Semilocal and hybrid density embedding calculations of ground-state charge-transfer complexes
The Journal of chemical physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 138 Issue: 12 Pages: 124112
Testing the broad applicability of the PBEint GGA functional and its one‐parameter hybrid form
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry [Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company], Volume: 113 Issue: 5 Pages: 673-682
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 87 Issue: 7 Pages: 075103
Relevance of coordinate and particle-number scaling in density-functional theory
Physical Review A [American Physical Society], Volume: 87 Issue: 1 Pages: 012511
Fluorine–thiophene-substituted organic dyes for dye sensitized solar cells
Journal of Materials Chemistry A [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 1 Issue: 38 Pages: 11909-11921
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 15 Issue: 37 Pages: 15485-15493
Spin-dependent gradient correction for more accurate atomization energies of molecules
The Journal of chemical physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 137 Issue: 19 Pages: 194105
A periodic charge-dipole electrostatic model: Parametrization for silver slabs
The Journal of chemical physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 137 Issue: 13 Pages: 134702
Theoretical Chemistry Accounts [Springer-Verlag], Volume: 131 Issue: 10 Pages: 1-10
Semilocal dynamical correlation with increased localization
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 86 Issue: 3 Pages: 035130
The Journal of chemical physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 137 Issue: 1 Pages: 014102
Nonuniform scaling applied to surface energies of transition metals
Physical review letters [American Physical Society], Volume: 108 Issue: 12 Pages: 126402
Theoretical Chemistry Accounts [Springer-Verlag], Volume: 131 Issue: 3 Pages: 1-8
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 84 Issue: 23 Pages: 233103
Chemical Physics Letters [North-Holland], Volume: 518 Pages: 114-118
Chemical Physics [North-Holland], Volume: 391 Issue: 1 Pages: 19-26
Live-cell-permeant thiophene fluorophores and cell-mediated formation of fluorescent fibrils
Journal of the American Chemical Society [American Chemical Society], Volume: 133 Issue: 44 Pages: 17777-17785
Journal of chemical theory and computation [American Chemical Society], Volume: 7 Issue: 11 Pages: 3548-3559
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C [American Chemical Society], Volume: 115 Issue: 43 Pages: 21128-21138
Journal of chemical theory and computation [American Chemical Society], Volume: 7 Issue: 8 Pages: 2439-2451
Correlation energy functional from jellium surface analysis
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 84 Issue: 4 Pages: 045126
QM/MM Nonadiabatic Decay Dynamics of 9H‐Adenine in Aqueous Solution
ChemPhysChem [WILEY‐VCH Verlag], Volume: 12 Issue: 10 Pages: 1989-1998
Exchange-correlation generalized gradient approximation for gold nanostructures
The Journal of chemical physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 134 Issue: 19 Pages: 194112
Semiclassical neutral atom as a reference system in density functional theory
Physical review letters [American Physical Society], Volume: 106 Issue: 18 Pages: 186406
Frozen density embedding with hybrid functionals
The Journal of chemical physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 133 Issue: 16 Pages: 164111
The role of exact‐exchange in the theoretical description of organic‐metal interfaces
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry [Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company], Volume: 110 Issue: 12 Pages: 2162-2171
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 82 Issue: 11 Pages: 113104
Journal of Materials Chemistry [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 20 Issue: 5 Pages: 1012-1018
PHYSICAL REVIEW A [], Volume: 81 Pages: 012508
Chemical communications [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 46 Issue: 34 Pages: 6273-6275
The Journal of chemical physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 131 Issue: 23 Pages: 234101
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 80 Issue: 15 Pages: 153101
Photoinduced Nonadiabatic Dynamics of 9H‐Guanine
ChemPhysChem [WILEY‐VCH Verlag], Volume: 10 Issue: 8 Pages: 1225-1229
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B [American Chemical Society], Volume: 113 Issue: 11 Pages: 3548-3555
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 11 Issue: 40 Pages: 9160-9169
Nonradiative deexcitation dynamics of 9H-adenine: An OM2 surface hopping study
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A [American Chemical Society], Volume: 112 Issue: 30 Pages: 6859-6863
Approximate switching algorithms for trajectory surface hopping
Chemical Physics [North-Holland], Volume: 351 Issue: 1-3 Pages: 111-116
Implementation of surface hopping molecular dynamics using semiempirical methods
Chemical Physics [North-Holland], Volume: 349 Issue: 1-3 Pages: 334-347
Journal of computational chemistry [Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company], Volume: 29 Issue: 3 Pages: 451-457
The Journal of chemical physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 126 Issue: 21 Pages: 214102
Bioconjugate Chem [], Volume: 18 Pages: 1015
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B [American Chemical Society], Volume: 110 Issue: 37 Pages: 18651-18660
Journal of non-crystalline solids [North-Holland], Volume: 352 Issue: 23-25 Pages: 2452-2456
Chemical physics letters [North-Holland], Volume: 418 Issue: 4-6 Pages: 496-501
Bioconjugate chemistry [American Chemical Society], Volume: 17 Issue: 1 Pages: 58-67
Theoretical study of singlet and triplet excitation energies in oligothiophenes
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A [American Chemical Society], Volume: 109 Issue: 13 Pages: 3078-3085
Nonradiative relaxation in thiophene-S, S-dioxide derivatives: the role of the environment
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B [American Chemical Society], Volume: 109 Issue: 12 Pages: 6004-6011
Conical intersections: theory, computation and experiment
[World Scientific], Volume: 17
Nonadiabatic trajectory calculations with ab initio and semiempirical methods
Conical Intersections: Theory, Computation and Experiment [World Scientific],