Silvia Picozzi
{{Short description|Italian physicist}}
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Silvia Picozzi is an Italian physicist who researches density functional theory, ferroelectricity, and antiferromagnetism at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. She is an elected fellow of the American Physical Society.
Early life and education
Silvia Picozzi received a bachelor's degree in physics from University of L'Aquila in 1994, and in 1998 she graduated with her PhD from the University of Camerino.{{cite web|url=https://www.trieste.nffa.eu/people/nffa-people/silvia-picozzi/| title=Silvia Picozzi| website=NFFA Trieste| access-date=17 February 2021}}
Career
Silvia Picozzi works at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, the National Research Council of Italy. She works in the Physical Sciences and Technologies of Matter department, where she is the director of research of SPIN (Superconducting and other Innovative Materials and Devices Institute) in Chieti, Italy. She is also part of the Nanoscience Foundries & Fine Analysis international project located in Trieste.
=Selected publications=
Some of Picozzi's most-cited works as of 2021 include:
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevB.66.094421|title=Co2MnX(X=Si,Ge, Sn) Heusler compounds: Anab initiostudy of their structural, electronic, and magnetic properties at zero and elevated pressure|year=2002|last1=Picozzi|first1=S.|last2=Continenza|first2=A.|last3=Freeman|first3=A. J.|journal=Physical Review B|volume=66|issue=9|page=094421|bibcode=2002PhRvB..66i4421P}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevB.69.094423|title=Role of structural defects on the half-metallic character ofCo2MnGeandCo2MnSi Heusler alloys|year=2004|last1=Picozzi|first1=S.|last2=Continenza|first2=A.|last3=Freeman|first3=A. J.|journal=Physical Review B|volume=69|issue=9|page=094423|bibcode=2004PhRvB..69i4423P}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1038/nature08731|title=Above-room-temperature ferroelectricity in a single-component molecular crystal|year=2010|last1=Horiuchi|first1=Sachio|last2=Tokunaga|first2=Yusuke|last3=Giovannetti|first3=Gianluca|last4=Picozzi|first4=Silvia|last5=Itoh|first5=Hirotake|last6=Shimano|first6=Ryo|last7=Kumai|first7=Reiji|last8=Tokura|first8=Yoshinori|journal=Nature|volume=463|issue=7282|pages=789–792|pmid=20148035|bibcode=2010Natur.463..789H|s2cid=205219520 }}
Awards and honors
Silvia Picozzi was elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2019.{{cite web|url=https://www.spin.cnr.it/news-events/item/87-important-recognition-for-silvia-picozzi-elected-as-2019-american-physical-society-fellow| title=Important recognition for Silvia Picozzi: elected as 2019 American Physical Society Fellow| date=24 September 2019| access-date=17 February 2021| website=Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - SuPerconducting and other INnovative materials and devices institute}} Her APS fellowship was in recognition of her "pioneering contributions to the fundamental understanding of microscopic mechanisms linking magnetic and electric dipolar degrees of freedom, through advanced modelling of ferroelectrics, antiferromagnets and multi-ferroics".{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/silviapicozzi/news-archive| title=News| website=MODEM Website @CNR SPIN| access-date=17 February 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2019&unit_id=&institution=| title=APS Fellow Archive| website=American Physical Society| access-date=17 February 2021}}
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Category:21st-century Italian physicists
Category:University of L'Aquila alumni
Category:University of Camerino alumni
Category:Fellows of the American Physical Society
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