Silvana Botti

Silvana Botti
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Pavia
Academic work
DisciplinePhysics
Sub-disciplineTheoretical spectroscopy
InstitutionsRuhr University Bochum

Silvana Botti is a full professor for Theory of Excited States of Integrated Solid State Systems at the Ruhr University Bochum.[1] She is an expert in the development of first-principles methods for electronic excitations and methods for theoretical spectroscopy.[2]

Education and professional life

She did her PhD at the University of Pavia in 2002.[3] After her PhD, she was a Marie-Curie Fellow at the University of Paris-Saclay.[4] She was also appointed CNRS Research Scientist there in 2004.[4] In 2008, she moved to University of Lyon where she habilitated in 2010.[4][3] In 2014, she became a full professor for physics at the University of Jena.[2] Her research group was a member of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility.[5] Since 2023, she has been a full professor for Theory of Excited States of Integrated Solid State Systems at Ruhr University Bochum.[1]

Research

Her research focuses on theoretical spectroscopy and the development of first-principles methods for electronic excitations based on (time-dependent) density functional theory and many-body perturbation theory.[6][2] She edited the book "First Principles Approaches to Spectroscopic Properties of Complex Materials".[7] She is an associate editor of npj Computational Materials.[4] Botti was part of an international research collaboration on a silicon-based direct bandgap light emitter, which was announced to be the "Breakthrough of the Year" by Physics World in 2020.[8][9]

References

  1. ^ a b "Prof. Dr. Botti, Silvana • Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie". Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie (in German). Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Condensed Matter Theory". 20 June 2020. Archived from the original on 20 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  3. ^ a b "AG – Marques / Uni. Halle". 20 June 2020. Archived from the original on 20 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d "About the Editors | npj Computational Materials". 20 June 2020. Archived from the original on 20 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Research Team Leaders | etsf". 20 June 2020. Archived from the original on 20 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  6. ^ "IFTO-Forschung Gruppe Botti". 20 June 2020. Archived from the original on 20 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  7. ^ Di Valentin, Cristiana; Botti, Silvana; Cococcioni, Matteo, eds. (22 September 2016). First principles approaches to spectroscopic properties of complex materials. Springer. ISBN 978-3-662-51178-7. OCLC 1062330736.
  8. ^ "Silicon-based material with a direct band gap is the Physics World 2020 Breakthrough of the Year". Physics World. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  9. ^ Fadaly, Elham M. T.; Dijkstra, Alain; et al. (8 April 2020). "Direct-bandgap emission from hexagonal Ge and SiGe alloys". Nature. 580 (7802): 205–209. arXiv:1911.00726. Bibcode:2020Natur.580..205F. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2150-y. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 32269353.