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
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• 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

• 2008-present: Permanent researcher , Istituto Officina dei Materiali (IOM) of the CNR
• 2005-2008: Tenure-track researcher at DEMOCRITOS (tenured in 2008)
• 2003-2004: Postdoctoral fellow at DEMOCRITOS and SISSA, Trieste
• 2000-2002: Postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut, Stuttgart

Scientific activity

• Author of 30 scientific papers published in international journals. More than 1100 citations, H-index=15 (ISI source, November 2010)
• Author of 19 invited talks at international conferences and workshops (including ACS, EPS, ECOSS, and CECAM)
• Organizer of 5 scientific conferences/workshops/symposia
• Lecturer at SISSA and at the University of Trieste (faculty of engineering)
• Supervisor of 6 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