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Prof Dario Alfe
Professor of Physics
Dept of Earth Sciences
Faculty of Maths & Physical Sciences
- Joined UCL
- 1st Oct 2000
Research summary
Materials modelling with various first principles methods, including density functional theory and quantum Monte Carlo, and statistical mechanics techniques for free energies and chemical potentials. Material properties under high pressure and high temperature. Interactions between molecules and surfaces. Metal hydrides.
Teaching summary
-Deep Earth and Planetary Modelling, 4th year Earth's sciences (course organiser)
-TYC Materials Modelling course, graduate course, Physics and Astronomy (contributor)
Education
- Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati di Trieste
- Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 1997
- Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati di Trieste
- Other higher degree, Magister | 1995
- Universita degli Studi di Trieste
- First Degree, Bachelor of Science | 1993