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ABOUT US

Our group works in the highly interdisciplinary intersection of chemistry, physics and materials science. Our goal is to always focus on understanding the atomistic origins of materials properties observed in the lab by our active collaborators and also by experimental scientists around the world. Our main concentration is low dimensional materials and surfaces. We have a multiscale approach to research and therefore make use of quantum mechanical methods such as Density Functional Theory as well as classical Molecular Dynamics. The principle investigators of our group are Drs Daniele & Hande Toffoli, however, the most important work is done by our group members. Please contact us with further questions.

Dr Daniele Toffoli received his MSc degree in Chemistry at the University of Trieste. After obtaining his PhD at the same institution, Dr Toffoli moved to the US for a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas A&M. Following two more postdoctoral appointments in Italy (University of Trieste) and Denmark (University of Aarhus), he was hired as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. After 6.5 years at METU, he earned a position as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Trieste, where he currently holds a position as an associate professor.

Dr. Hande Toffoli

Dr. Daniele Toffoli

Dr Hande Toffoli received her BSc degree in Physics from the Middle East Technical University in 1999. She then went on to earn her PhD in the field of condensed matter theory at Cornell University in 2005. Following a year-long postdoctoral fellowship at the Scuola Internazionale degli Studi Avanzati (SISSA), she joined the faculty at her alma mater in the Physics Department in 2007, where she currently holds a position as an associate professor.

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