Professor at SISSA, Trieste (Italy).

• Vibrational properties of extended systems.
• Thermal properties of extended systems, studied within the quasi-harmonic approximation
• Thermodynamical properties of substitutional alloys.
• Pressure-induced lattice instabilities of materials.
• Electronic, structural, and dynamical properties of metal surfaces.
• Chemical reactivity at surfaces.
  
• Structural and electronic properties of transition metal oxides.
• Functionals  for van der Waals interaction.
• Adiabatic Connection Fluctiation-Dissipation approach to DFT
• Machine Learning interatomic potentials for Material Science