Stefano Sanvito

Stefano Sanvito
Born
Italy
Alma materUniversity of Milan
Lancaster University
AwardsFellow of the Institute of Physics (2013), Member of the Royal Irish Academy (2016), Knight of the Star of Italy (2016)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Computational Materials Science, Spintronics
InstitutionsTrinity College Dublin
Doctoral advisorColin J. Lambert, John J. Jefferson
Websitespincomp.com

Stefano Sanvito is an Italian physicist and academic, currently the Chair of Condensed Matter Theory at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. He is Director of the CRANN Institute and a principal investigator at AMBER Centre, where he leads the Computational Spintronics Group. Sanvito is one of the developers of Smeagol, a software for nanoscale device modeling. He has a h-index of 82 with over 32,000 citations.