Bio
Research Interest:
- Theoretical Studies of Mechanical Properties of Metals and Ceramics; Numerical Methods in Quantum Chemistry; Approximate Methods in Quantum Theory of Solids, Molecules and Nano-Particles.
Position at University of Tennessee:
- Distinguished Professor of Physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996
Professional Experience
- 2004-present Distinguished Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, and Distinguished Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN.
- 1997-2004 Full Professor, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
- 1994-1997 Associate Professor, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
- 1992-1994 Assistant Professor, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
- 1988-1991 Research Associate in Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
- 1985-1988 Research Associate in Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.
Awards
Included in list of top 250 most Highly Cited Physicists (http://isihighlycited.com), 2004
Author of book on transition-metal oxides after invitation from Springer-Verlag (Berlin). Title: "Nanoscale Phase Separation and Colossal Magnetoresistance," 2002
Becomes “Named” Professor at FSU, 2002
Divisional Editor of Physical Review Letters (Condensed Matter) (1998-2002), 1998
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1998
Professional Memberships: Member of Board of Editors of Solid State Communications (2000-2002), 2000
Education
Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina, Ph.D., 1985, Physics
Licenciado en Fisica. Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina, 1982
Publications
October 2014
Erratum on “Competition between covalent bonding and charge transfer at complex-oxide interfaces”...
Journal: Physical Review Letters
July 2014
Ab initio quantum Monte Carlo calculations of spin superexchange in cuprates: the benchmarking case…
Journal: Physical Review X
June 2014
Journal: Physical Review Letters
March 2014
Journal: Physical Review Letters
January 2014
Magnetic phase diagram of a five-orbital Hubbard model in the real-space Hartree-Fock approximation…
Journal: Physical Review B