Stefano Fabris
CNR-IOM DEMOCRITOS Simulation Center and
SISSA - Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
e-mail: fabris[at]democritos.it
Phone@Elettra: +39 040 375 8735
Phone@SISSA: +39 040 3787 872
- Researcher at the DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center of the CNR
- Coordinator of the theory group of the ELETTRA Synchrotron laboratory
- Associate staff member of the International School for Advanced Studies SISSA
Research interests
- Computational materials science
- Surface chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis of oxides and oxide-supported metals
- Nanostructured materials for artificial photosynthesis, water splitting, H2 production and fuel cells
- Surface-supported organic and metal-organic nanostructures
- Theoretical methods for computational spectroscopy and microscopy
Education
- Ph.D. in Physics (July 2000), Queen's University of Belfast, UK (Supervisor: Prof. M. W. Finnis)
- Degree (cum laude) in Materials science and engineering (Feb 1998), University of Trieste.
Professional experience
- 2005-2008: Tenure-track researcher at DEMOCRITOS (tenured in 2008)
- 2003-2004: Postdoctoral researcher at DEMOCRITOS and SISSA (group of Prof. S. Baroni)
- 2000-2002: Postdoctoral researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut, Stuttgart (Prof. Ch. Elsässer)
Scientific activity
- Author of 27 scientific papers published in international journals. About 700 citations, H-index=14 (ISI source, February 2010)
- Author of 17 invited talks to international conferences and workshops (including ECOSS, ACS and EPS meetings)
- Organizer of 5 scientific conferences/workshops/symposia
- Supervisor of 4 postdoctoral fellows, 3 Ph.D, 1 Master, and 1 Diploma students
- Lecturer at national and international schools on computational materials science (8 contributions since 2004)
- Principal investigator in 6 projects funded by regional, national and international agencies
- Referee for 2 international funding agencies and for 10 scientific journals (including Science, Phys. Rev. Lett., and J. Am. Chem. Soc)
Selected publications
- M. Farnesi Camellone and S. Fabris
Reaction Mechanisms for the CO Oxidation on Au/CeO2 catalysts: Activity of Substitutional Au3+/Au+ Cations and Deactivation of Supported Au+ Adatoms
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 10473 (2009) - S. Colussi, A. Gayen, M. Farnesi Camellone, M. Boaro, J. Llorca, S. Fabris, and A. Trovarelli
Nanofaceted Pd-O Sites in Pd-Ce Surface Superstructures Boost Activity in catalytic Combustion of Methane
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 48, 8481 (2009) - L. Vitali, S. Fabris, A. Mosca Conte, S. Brink, M. Ruben. S. Baroni, and K. Kern
Electronic Structure of Surface-supported Bis(phthalocyaninato)terbium(III) Single Molecular Magnets
Nano Letters 8, 3364 (2008) - A. Mosca Conte, S. Fabris, and S. Baroni
Properties of Pt-supported Co nanomagnets from relativistic density functional theory calculations
Phys. Rev. B 78, 014416 (2008) - A. Barinov, H. Üstünel, S. Fabris, L. Gregoratti, L. Aballe, P. Dudin, S. Baroni, and M. Kiskinova
Defect-controlled transport properties of metallic atoms along carbon nanotube surfaces
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 046803 (2007) - F. Esch, S. Fabris, L. Zhou, T. Montini, C. Africh, P. Fornasiero, G. Comelli, and R. Rosei
Electron localization determines defect formation on ceria substrates
Science 309, 752 (2005) - S. Fabris, S. de Gironcoli, S. Baroni, G. Vicario, and G. Balducci
Taming multiple valency with density functionals: a case study of defective ceria''
Phys. Rev. B 71, 041102 (2005) - T. Classen, G. Fratesi, G. Costantini, S. Fabris, F. L. Stadler, C. Kim, S. de Gironcoli, S. Baroni, and K. Kern
Templated growth of metal-organic coordination chains at surfaces
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 44, 6142 (2005)
Full publication list at Researcher ID