We welcome on board Patrick Serafini as a new PhD student at the EsplORE team working on first principles calculations of sp-carbon nanostructures.
He was born in 1994 in Teramo, Italy. He is a PhD student in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology since 2019. He graduated magna cum laude in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology in December 2018 with a thesis on Density Functional Theory simulations of two-dimensional sp-sp2 carbon nanostructures. His interests are mainly focused on molecular modeling of sp-carbon based nanostructures and nanomaterials. PhD project: theoretical investigation of the electronic, vibrational and optical properties of carbon atom wires (CAWs) and hybrid sp-sp2 nanostructures by means of Density Functional Theory (DFT).