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| Giulia Galli | |
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| Name | Giulia Galli |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Fields | Condensed matter physics; Computational chemistry; Materials science |
| Workplaces | University of Chicago; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Alma mater | University of Milan; University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | First-principles simulations; Time-dependent density functional theory; Quantum dynamics in materials |
| Awards | American Physical Society Fellowship; APS David Adler Lectureship; L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science finalist |
Giulia Galli Giulia Galli is an Italian-born computational physicist and materials scientist noted for advancing first-principles simulations of electronic, optical, and excited-state properties of materials. She holds leadership positions at major research institutions and has contributed to theoretical developments applied to semiconductors, nanostructures, and quantum defects. Her work interfaces with experimental efforts at national laboratories and international research centers.
Galli was born in Italy and completed undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Milan and advanced training at the University of California, Berkeley. During her formative years she interacted with researchers affiliated with National Institute for Nuclear Physics and European research programs, and received mentorship from senior scientists connected to institutions such as CNR and INFN. Her doctoral and postdoctoral period overlapped with developments in methods originating at Bell Labs, the Max Planck Society, and U.S. national laboratories including Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Galli has held faculty and leadership roles at the University of Chicago, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She has directed centers supported by agencies like the U.S. Department of Energy, collaborated with programs at the European Research Council, and participated in initiatives involving the National Science Foundation and Industry-academia partnerships with corporations such as IBM, Intel, and Google. Her career involved service on advisory boards for organizations including the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, and international consortia linked to the Human Frontier Science Program and the European Commission.
Galli's research advanced implementations of density functional theory, time-dependent density functional theory, and many-body perturbation theory such as the GW approximation and the Bethe–Salpeter equation. She developed computational approaches for excited-state dynamics relevant to silicon, diamond, graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and perovskite materials, and studied quantum emitters like the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond and color centers in silicon carbide. Her group produced predictions influencing experiments at facilities such as SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and National Institute of Standards and Technology. Galli contributed to simulation codes used broadly in the community, working alongside projects like Quantum ESPRESSO, Yambo, WEST, and high-performance computing centers including NERSC, OLCF, and CINECA. Her work connected to applications in photovoltaics, quantum information science, spintronics, and optoelectronics, and interfaced with measurement platforms at the Advanced Photon Source and European Synchrotron Radiation Facility.
Galli has been recognized by major organizations including fellowship in the American Physical Society and selection for lectureships such as the David Adler Lectureship in the Field of Materials Physics. She has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and received acknowledgments from the European Research Council and national agencies like the Swiss National Science Foundation. She has been a finalist or awardee in programs such as the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science awards and held honorary positions invited by universities including University of Cambridge, Harvard University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Galli's representative publications span high-impact journals and conference proceedings, including contributions to Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Journal of Chemical Physics, and Nature Materials. Notable works include foundational papers on excited-state methods, studies of defect properties in diamond and silicon carbide, and computational predictions for lead-halide perovskites and two-dimensional materials like MoS2. Her group’s code and methodological papers have been cited across literature from groups at Columbia University, Stanford University, University of Oxford, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Imperial College London.
Galli has supervised graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who have moved to faculty and research positions at institutions such as the University of Michigan, Princeton University, ETH Zurich, Technical University of Munich, Tsinghua University, Peking University, and national laboratories including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She has taught courses and delivered lectures at summer schools organized by ICTP, Psi-k, Workshop on Computational Materials Science, and courses hosted by CERN and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Outside research, Galli has engaged in outreach and diversity initiatives supported by organizations such as UNESCO, Marie Curie Actions, and university programs at the University of Chicago and EPFL. She has participated in public lectures at venues including the Royal Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and science festivals associated with World Science Festival and contributed to panels organized by the European Commission and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Category:Italian physicists Category:Women physicists