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About the Corresponding Authors
Ikutaro Hamada received a BSc in Engineering from Osaka University and a PhD
in Science from Osaka University in 2003. He then joined the Institute of Scientific
and Industrial Research, Osaka University, as a postdoctoral researcher, Advance
Institute for Materials Science, Tohoku University, in 2009 as an assistant professor,
National Institute for Materials Science as a senior researcher in 2013, and currently
associate professor in the department of precision science and technology, Graduate
School of Engineering, Osaka University. His research interests include electronic
structure methods and their application in surfaces and interfaces relevant to energy
conversion and heterogeneous catalysis.
Chapter 5
Simone Taioli is presently a senior researcher in the Condensed Matter division of
the European Center for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas
(ECT ∗ ) in Trento, Italy. He graduated summa cum laude with both a degree (2000)
and a PhD (2004) in Nuclear Engineering (University of Bologna) and also earned
a second PhD in Physics (University of Trento, 2013). He held academic research
positions at University College London, where he dealt with the ab initio simulations
of scattering events between electron beams and molecular targets, the study from
first principles of the Earth’s core and of materials under extreme conditions, and
at the University of Sheffield, where he worked on the assessment of the electronic
and optical properties of carbon-based materials. From 2015 to 2018 he held joint
academic appointments at Charles University in Prague. His research is now focused
on the development and application of many-body and Monte Carlo methods in
physics and chemistry with particular emphasis in materials science as well as on
the relativistic approaches to the beta decay of heavy nuclei, also in astrophysical
scenario and for the determination of the neutrino mass to explore the physics
beyond the Standard Model.
Chapter 6
Anna V. Pomogaeva studied material science and theoretical solid states physics
at Tomsk State University in Russia. She was awarded a PhD in 2009 from Kyushu
University of Japan, where she worked at Theoretical Material Lab at the juncture of
solid-state physics and quantum chemistry. In 2010–2014 she worked as a postdoc
researcher in Radiation Lab, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. The research
there was aimed at developing a method for accounting for the effects of solvation
in the framework of the continuum solvation model. Since 2014 she works at
the Inorganic Chemistry Department of Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia,
on projects devoted to the study of donor-acceptor interactions in complexes of
inorganic compounds.
About the Corresponding Authors
Ikutaro Hamada received a BSc in Engineering from Osaka University and a PhD
in Science from Osaka University in 2003. He then joined the Institute of Scientific
and Industrial Research, Osaka University, as a postdoctoral researcher, Advance
Institute for Materials Science, Tohoku University, in 2009 as an assistant professor,
National Institute for Materials Science as a senior researcher in 2013, and currently
associate professor in the department of precision science and technology, Graduate
School of Engineering, Osaka University. His research interests include electronic
structure methods and their application in surfaces and interfaces relevant to energy
conversion and heterogeneous catalysis.
Chapter 5
Simone Taioli is presently a senior researcher in the Condensed Matter division of
the European Center for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas
(ECT ∗ ) in Trento, Italy. He graduated summa cum laude with both a degree (2000)
and a PhD (2004) in Nuclear Engineering (University of Bologna) and also earned
a second PhD in Physics (University of Trento, 2013). He held academic research
positions at University College London, where he dealt with the ab initio simulations
of scattering events between electron beams and molecular targets, the study from
first principles of the Earth’s core and of materials under extreme conditions, and
at the University of Sheffield, where he worked on the assessment of the electronic
and optical properties of carbon-based materials. From 2015 to 2018 he held joint
academic appointments at Charles University in Prague. His research is now focused
on the development and application of many-body and Monte Carlo methods in
physics and chemistry with particular emphasis in materials science as well as on
the relativistic approaches to the beta decay of heavy nuclei, also in astrophysical
scenario and for the determination of the neutrino mass to explore the physics
beyond the Standard Model.
Chapter 6
Anna V. Pomogaeva studied material science and theoretical solid states physics
at Tomsk State University in Russia. She was awarded a PhD in 2009 from Kyushu
University of Japan, where she worked at Theoretical Material Lab at the juncture of
solid-state physics and quantum chemistry. In 2010–2014 she worked as a postdoc
researcher in Radiation Lab, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. The research
there was aimed at developing a method for accounting for the effects of solvation
in the framework of the continuum solvation model. Since 2014 she works at
the Inorganic Chemistry Department of Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia,
on projects devoted to the study of donor-acceptor interactions in complexes of
inorganic compounds.