Giulia Galli

The University of Chicago


Primary Section: 33, Applied Physical Sciences
Secondary Section: 14, Chemistry
Membership Type:
Member (elected 2020)

Biosketch

Giulia Galli is the Liew Family professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations in the Pritzker School of  Molecular Engineering and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. She also holds a Senior Scientist position at Argonne National Laboratory, where she is the director of the Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials.  She holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the International School of Advanced Studies in Italy. Prior to joining UChicago, she was Professor of Chemistry and Physics at UC Davis (2005-2013) and the head of the Quantum Simulations group at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL, 1998-2005).

Research Interests

Giulia Galli’s research activity focuses on the development and use of theoretical and computational methods to understand and predict the properties of solids, liquids and nanostructures at the atomistic level, from first principles. Her method developments include first principles molecular dynamics techniques and algorithms for electronic structure calculations of excited states phenomena. Her theoretical studies of excited state properties of matter focus on the prediction of optimal systems for harvesting sunlight. Other areas of interest to Galli’s research include phenomena and materials for the realization of technologies based on quantum information science.

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