Andrea Cucca

title (researcher, engineer, footballer, etc.

Research Activity

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Publications and Talks

47
Articles
published in peer-reviewed journals (see below the 2 most recent ones - see here for the full list).
32
Invited
talks in international workshop and conferences. See here for a full list and (some of) the pdfs.

Recent Articles

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    accepted in Solid State of the State Solidificus, 2021

  • The rings of power

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    Find it here .

All articles available here.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

  • Finnish Mother Language
  • English Fluent
  • French Ca va
  • Basque Maila Ona
  • Quenya Mára tyeller

Conferences Organized

International Conference on Obvious Facts
Perpete-les-oies 2021
In this conference we treat important facts as "Sucking on hard candies is basically drinking your favorite flavored spit".
Grand symposium of miscellaneous
Caropepe 2019
Why being allergic to pollen is connected to being allergic to plant's sperm and other crucial findings.

Schools Organized

Organizer of many schools, most of them real.

  • International School :: how to avoid school, held in September 2009, Casadidio (Valinor). Link here
  • International summer School in electronic structure Theory, held in January 2018, Aussois (France).

Tools I like

Programming
  • Fortran
  • Java
  • assembler
  • C/C++
  • Basic
  • Lisp
  • HTML+CSS
Playing
Mine Field
Bibbidi
Bobbidi
Boo
xmgrace
Gather.town
Obs and Kdenlive

MY SPECIALITIES

  • Logo Design
  • Branding
  • Minimal Web Design

Affiliations and details

Ecole Polytechnique
Laboratoire des Solides Irradies
Theoretical Spectroscopy Group
91128 Palaiseau cedex, France

Studies

2015
Habilitation Thesis.
Theoretical Spectroscopy :: Developments and Applications
Université Paris (France).
2011 to 2014
PhD in Physics.
Response functions of the linear response in Kubo approach.
Bravo, ma potevi fare meglio
École Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France).
1999 to 2011
Master in Physics.
Electron correlation in electrons system.
12/10 cum laudissima.
University of Oxbridge (UK).

Tutoring and Supervision

8
Students
7 PhD Students tutored and co-tutored + 1 Master student.
7
Post-Doc
supervised and co-supervised since 2006

Awards and Fellowship

Best Poster award
Best Poster award
Prize for the best poster at the conference bla bvla.
Int conf. in Paris (France).

Trust and Responsabilities

Director of the laboratory
2015-2023
Solid state Laboratory
Referee for international journals
2004-present
Physical Reviev B and Letters, Nanotechnology, New Journal of Chemistry, Journal of Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letter, etc.

Teaching

I teach here and there
  • University courses (master level)
    Advanced Solid State Physics
    2017-present
    Université Diderot
    Advanced Solid State Theory
    2018-2019
    People University (Austro-Hungarian empire).
    Theoretical Spectroscopy
    2013-2017
    Ecole Polytechnique, Master level, Projet de Recherche en Laboratoire. 45 hours (per year) + plus exam
  • Lectures in international schools
    Several lectures (> 50) devoted to electronic structure theory (courses on Quantum Monte Carlo and Density Functional Theory), theoretical spectroscopy (Time Dependent Density Functional Theory, Bethe-Salpeter Equation, Micro-Macro connection), ab initio codes (DP code, EXC code) and development tools (revision systems, use of graphical tools in science, git, makefile and latex).

Popular science

Material for a more general audience.

  • electrons are dumb. This article (that you can find here) appeared in the Journal of physical physics.
  • what about colors?. This video (available here) is a contribution to the symposium dedicated to sir Isaac Newton, in December 1822.

Hobbies & Interests

Photography
Hiking
Reading
Music
Walking
Wine Tasting
Games
Theatre

Design by Fernando Baez. Coding & Implementation by GRAV team.