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Hire Dr. Chiara P.

Italy

Profile Summary

Over the past three years, my research interest has been mainly focused on the study of adsorption, diffusion and growth mechanisms of 2D self-assembled structures of molecules on insulating surfaces. The combination of several theoretical tools (spanning from density functional theory (DFT) methods to classical nucleation theory and kinetic models such as rate equations) allowed me not only to understand the actual experimental results (based on atomic force microscopy experiments (AFM) ) but also to identify the key ingredients necessary for a more general and rational design of stable self-assembled architectures on insulating substrates. Moreover, after my master studies, I spent one year in the research group of Prof. Fernando Martin (Department of theoretical chemistry, Madrid) where we performed DFT and molecular dynamic simulations to study the fragmentation dynamics of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules in collision with highly charged ions.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Materials Science & Engineering
• ☆ Inorganic Chemistry
• ☆ Physical Chemistry
• ☆ Spectroscopy
• ☆ Condensed Matter Physics
• ☆ Theoretical Chemistry
• ☆ Microscopy
• ☆ Computer Science
• ☆ Software Engineering
• ☆ Computational Physics

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Work Experience

Researcher

Kings College School

September 2013 - August 2016

University Research

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

September 2012 - August 2013

researcher

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

September 2012 - August 2013

Education

PhD in Theory & Simulation of Condensed Matter Physics

King's College London

September 2013 - April 2017

PhD (Condensed Matter Physics )

Kings College London

September 2013 - April 2017

Master degree in Chemistry

Universita' Degli Studi di Trieste

September 2010 - July 2012

Bachelor degree in Chemistry

Universita degli Studi di Perugia

September 2008 - July 2010

Certifications

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Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2014). Multiple ionization and hydrogen loss from neutral and positively-charged coronene. J. Chem. Phys. 140, 204307, (2014).

Fragmentation dynamics of excited ionized polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 488, 102027, (2014).

Increasing the Templating Effect on a Bulk Insulator Surface: From a Kinetically Trapped to a Thermodynamically More Stable Structure,. J. Phys. Chem. C, 120 (2016).