SIMONE DI CATALDO

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Simone Di Cataldo
Current position: Assistant Professor, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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ORCID: 0000-0002-8902-0125
Personal website
Publications
Co-author of 26 peer-reviewed articles, including 9 as first author. Bibliometric
indicators (since 2018): 639 citations, H-index 13 (Web of Science, ID AAR-2589-
2021); 643 citations, H-index 13 (Scopus, ID 57209284577); 907 citations, H-index
14 (Google Scholar).
Employment
2023-to date: Assistant Professor, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
2023: Postdoctoral Researcher, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
2022-2023: Postdoctoral Researcher, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
2018-2022: Doctoral Researcher, TU Graz, Graz, Austria and Sapienza University of
Rome, Rome, Italy
Education
2018-2022: Joint PhD at the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Physics
(Graz University of Technology) and Physics Department (Sapienza University of
Rome). Supervisors: Lilia Boeri and Wolfgang von der Linden. Thesis title: Ab initio
materials design of superhydrides: a quest to high-Tc superconductivity at room
pressure
2015-2018: Master’s degree (MSc), Physics Department, Sapienza University of
Rome. Final mark: 110/110 cum laude. Supervisors: Lilia Boeri and Paolo Postorino.
Thesis title: High-pressure spectroscopy of the hybrid perovskite formamidinium lead
iodide
2016-2017: Erasmus Semester at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2012-2015: Bachelor’s degree (BSc), Physics Department, Sapienza University of
Rome. Final mark: 110/110. Supervisor: Prof. Giancarlo Ruocco
2007-2011: Scientific High School Diploma at Liceo Scientifico Nomentano. Final
mark: 100/100 cum laude.
Competitive Grants
2024: PI of EuroHPC grant for 11M CPUh (EHPC-REG-2024R01-089)
2022: CINECA project HTS_TECH for 300k CPUh
2021: Post-doctoral fellowship (granted on competitive basis) – Sapienza University
of Rome
Scientific Awards
2023: Featured among Emerging Leaders in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
2021: Best poster prize at the 2021 Virtual School on Electron-Phonon physics
2019: “Best communications – Solid state physics” – Italian Physical Society
Invited Talks
2025: “Predicting Thermoelectric Materials Through Crystal Structure Prediction and
Energy Filtering Mechanism” – MRS Fall meeting, Boston
2025: “Ab-initio modelling of historical low-temperature superconductors: unexpected
challenges and the decisive role of structure and disorder” – Challenges in Designing
Room-Temperature Superconductors, Tokyo
2024: “Forbidden chemistry at extreme pressures revealed by ab initio calculations” –
CSEC seminars, University of Edinburgh
2023: “Ab initio material design of superhydrides: a quest to high-Tc superconductivity
at room pressure” – Group seminars, Technische Universität Wien
2022: “Room-Temperature Superconductivity in Hydrides” – CIMTEC Conference,
Perugia
2022: “Strategies for Computational Discovery of High-Tc Conventional
Superconductivity at Ambient Pressure” – Challenges in Designing Room-
Temperature Superconductors, L’Aquila
Teaching
2025: Teacher, interactive STEM outreach program for high-school, Liceo
Vivona/Liceo Francesco D’Assisi, Rome, Italy
2024-2025: Lecturer, Physics and laboratory, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
2023: Lecturer, Computational materials science, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
2023: Teaching assistant, Quantum Field Theory, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
2021: Teaching assistant, Classical mechanics – Sapienza University of Rome, Rome,
Italy
Co-supervision
2023 – 2025 2 PhD students (co-supervised with L. Boeri) Sapienza University of
Rome, Rome, Italy
2023 1 Bachelor student (co-supervised with K. Held), TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
2018 – 2022; 2023 – 2025 (co-supervised with L. Boeri) 9 Master students, Sapienza
University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Organization of scientific meetings
2024, Mini colloquium MC22 - Frontiers in phonon-mediated superconductivity at
CMD31, Braga, Portugal
Selected Publications
1. Energy filtering–induced ultrahigh thermoelectric power factors in Ni3Ge, F Garmroudi, S
Di Cataldo, et al., Science Advances 11 (2025).
2. Topological Flat-Band-Driven Metallic Thermoelectricity, F Garmroudi, J Coulter, I
Serhiienko, S Di Cataldo, et al., Physical Review X 15, 021054 (2025).
3. Competing charge density wave phases in YNiC2, M Roman, S Di Cataldo, et al., Physical
Review B 111, 195100 (2025).
4. Coexistence of charge density wave and field-tuned magnetic states in TmNiC2, K K
Kolincio, M Roman, V Tammurello, S Di Cataldo, et al., Physical Review B 111, 245116 (2025).
5. Unconventional superconductivity without doping in infinite-layer nickelates under pressure,
S Di Cataldo, et al., Nature Communications 15 (1), 3952 (2024).
6. Giant Splitting of the Hydrogen Rotational Eigenenergies in the C2 Filled Ice, S Di Cataldo,
et al., Physical Review Letters 133, 236101 (2024).
7. Observation of the most H2-dense filled ice under high pressure, U Ranieri, S Di Cataldo,
et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (52), e2312665120 (2023).
8. Search for ambient superconductivity in the Lu-NH system, P P Ferreira, L J Conway, A
Cucciari, S Di Cataldo, et al., Nature Communications 14 (1), 5367 (2023).
9. LaBH8: towards high-Tc low-pressure superconductivity in ternary hydrides, S. Di Cataldo,
et al., Physical Review B 104(2), L020511 (2021).
10. Superconductivity in sodalite-like yttrium hydride clathrates, C Heil, S Di Cataldo, et al.,
Physical Review B 99, 220502 (2019).