LILIA BOERI

Contacts:

Lilia Boeri

Dipartimento di Fisica

Sapienza Universita' di Roma

P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma

Stanza 407 Edificio Fermi

Tel: +39-06-4991 3148

https://lboeri.wordpress.com

Employment:
Since April 2017: Tenure-Track Ass. Prof. (RTDB), Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy.

April 2013-2017: Tenure-Track Ass. Prof., Institute for Theoretical and Computational Physics, TU Graz, Austria.

2003-2013: Max Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart.
- 2003-2004: Visiting PhD Student (Andersen Dep.)
- 2004-2006: Postdoc Scholarship (Andersen Dep.)
- 2006-2009: Member of the Scientific Staff (Andersen Dep.)
- 2009-2013: Minerva Group Leader (W2 position) Computational Approaches to Superconductivity.

2001-2003: Università la Sapienza, Roma, PhD Scholarship.

Education/Qualifications:

Apr. 2017: Habilitation as Full Professor (Professore Ordinario) in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics (02/B2) and Theoretical Chemistry (03/A2).
Apr. 2017: Habilitation as Associate Professor (Professore Associato) in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics (02/B2) and Theoretical Chemistry (03/A2).

Feb 2005: University of Rome, La Sapienza ,PhD in Physics (Dottorato di Ricerca in Fisica); Supervisors: prof. Luciano Pietronero, prof. Giovanni B. Bachelet;
Thesis title: "Electron-phonon Interaction in the new s-p Superconductors: Magnesium Diboride and Hole-Doped Diamond"
Jan 2001: University of Rome, La Sapienza, “Laurea” (MSc) in Physics
Final Mark: 110/110 cum laude. Supervisor: prof. Luciano Pietronero
Thesis title: "Electronic Correlation and Non-Adiabatic Superconductivity"

Publications:

Co-author of 41 scientific papers on International Journals, 2 invited review papers and 6 Conference Proceedings; Since 2002, my papers have received more than 200 (2700) citations on ISI Web of Science (google scholar) – jan 2016. My Hirsch factor is 21 (24).

Talks and seminars:

More than 60 invited talks and ≈10 contributed talks at international conferences and seminars since 2002 (complete list is attached); visiting scientist at KITP Santa Barbara, USA (2009, 2011 and 2014) , Riken, Japan (2010), MPI Halle (2015).
Research Highlights:
• First explanation and prediction of superconductivity in boron-doped tetrahedral semiconductors (Phys. Rev. Lett. 2004), more than 150 citations.
• Explained the role of the interlayer band in the superconductivity of intercalated graphites; prediction of experimental trends. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 2006 and 2007, Phys. Rev. B 2006 and 2007, >200 total citations).
• Kohn Anomalies in elemental superconductors (Phys. Rev. Lett. 2006, Science 2008, 80 total citations).
• Iron superconductors: ruled out electron-phonon interaction as a possible mechanism for superconductivity in iron superconductors (Phys. Rev. Lett. 2008); wrote a review on the electronic structure and magnetism (Annalen der Physik 2011); first calculation of the effect of magnetism on the ep interaction (Phys. Rev. B 2010); investigated the role of electronic correlations on magnetism (Phys. Rev. Lett. 2012, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2015) – More than 1500 total citations.
• Superconductivity in High-pressure hydrides: Investigated the role of bonding in H3X chalchogenides (Phys. Rev. B Rapid 2015); First theoretical explanation of high-pressure phases and superconductivity in high-pressure phosphines (Phys. Rev. B Rapid 2016) – 18 total citations.

Funding and Organization:
Around 1.5 Meuro third-party research funding since 2009; co-organizer of 4 fully-funded international workshops since 2010 with a total of 500 participants.

Supervision
Co-supervisor of 4 diploma (master) students at La Sapienza - V. Garbuio (2003), M. Giantomassi (2005) and two master students at TU Graz (M. Rumetshofer, C. Kokail). Supervisor of 4 PhD students: L. Ortenzi (Stuttgart, 2013); M. Hoeppner (Stuttgart, 2016) ; C. Heil (Graz, 2015); A. Smolyanyuk (Graz, 2018) and 4 bachelor theses.

Teaching Experience

Teaching assistant for Quantum Theory of Solids (2001-2004) and Lab of Computational Physics at La Sapienza, Rome; Lecturer for the course on Electronic Structure Calculations, International Master Course University Stuttgart; Numerical Methods in Physics (5th semester, TU Graz), Solid State Theory I (7th Semester, TU Graz), Solid State Theory II (9th Semester+PhD, TU Graz). Lecturer at several courses and international schools (see attached document).

Other activities:

• Evaluator for the Italian Ministry of Education: Anvur (Assessment of the quality of Research, 2012, 2016) and PRIN – National Research Projects (2013).
• Evaluator for the German Physical Society (DFG), since 2013.
• Evaluator for the Humboldt Foundation (Germany) 2013-.
• Member of the PSIK working group for Superconductivity, since 2010.
• Vice-Representative of Scientists (Schorsch) at the MPI for Solid State Research, Stuttgart (2012-2013).
• Co-organizer of the Grazer Physikalisches Kolloquium, 2013-2015 (with M. Aichhorn).
• Referee for Nature Physics, Nature Materials, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Physica C, European Journal of Physics B, Journal of Low Temperature Physics.
• Member of the Physical Review B visiting Committee, March 2015.