Principal Investigator and Group Leader
 | Professor of Condensed Matter Theory CRANN Institute, |
Group Administrator
 | Ms. Stefania Negro Computational Spintronics Group, Administrator CRANN Institute, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland Tel: +353-1-896 4836 e-mail: negros @ tcd.ie |
Junior Group
 | Dr. Maria Stamenova SFI-SIRG group: Spin transport and spin dynamics Llyod Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland Tel: +353-1-896 8454 e-mail: stamenom @ tcd.ie |
Research Fellows
| Llyod Building, |
| System Administrator CRANN Institute, |
Postdoctoral Researchers
| Llyod Building, |
 | Llyod Building, |
 | Marie Curie Postdoc Fellow CRANN Institute, |
PhD Students
 | CRANN Institute, |
 | CRANN Institute, |
 | CRANN Institute, |
 | CRANN Institute, |
 | Llyod Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland Tel: +353-1-896 8454 e-mail: rossignh @ tcd.ie |
| Mr. Luke Gilligan Llyod Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland Tel: +353-1-896 8454 e-mail: gilligal @ tcd.ie |
 | Mr. Michelangelo Domina CRANN Institute, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland Tel: +353-1-896 4606 e-mail: dominam @ tcd.ie |
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| Mr. Micheal Minotakis Llyod Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland Tel: +353-1-896 8455 e-mail: minotakm @ tcd.ie |
Visitors and associated members
 | Co-supervised by Prof. Nuala Caffrey (UCD) |
 | Co-supervised Dr. Akinlolu Akande (IIT Sligo) |
 | Co-supervised Dr. Graham Kells (DIAS) |
 | Co-supervised Prof. Nuala Caffrey (UCD) |
 | Visiting from University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei |
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| Visiting from University of Strasbourg, France |
Group Alumni
- Dr. Ashwinee Kumar, PhD Thesis: Towards a parameter-free theory for electrochemical process at the nano-scale
- Dr. Clotilde Cucinotta, now EPSRC Fellow at Imperial College London
- Dr. Emanuele Bosoni, now Postdoc at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (IMAB-CSIC). PhD Thesis: Materials selection for spin-transfer-torque for magnetic random access memory: a Hugh-throughput approach
- Dr. Mario Galante, now Postdoc at University of Luxembourg. PhD Thesis: Multi-scale analysis of current-driven spin dynamics in magnetic tunnel junctions
- Dr. Gokaran Shukla, PhD Thesis: Computational design of magnetic tunnel junctions
- Dr. Matthew Ellis, now postdoc at University of Sheffield
- Dr. Subhayan Roychoudhury, now postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. PhD Thesis: Ab initio Calculation of Parameters for Electron and Spin Transport in Organic Crystals
- Dr. Sabine Körbel, now postdoc at Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Dr. Gabriele Saleh, now postdoc at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)
- Dr. Carlo Motta, now Senior Data Scientist at Prometeia.
- Prof. Yanhui Zhang, now Professor at the College of Materials Science and Engineering, Yanshan University, China.
- Dr. Thomas Archer, now Head of Research and Development at Ambisense
- Dr. Mario Žic, now Insights Engineer at Motionlogic GmbH PhD Thesis: Machine learning methods for designing new magnets (2017).
- Dr. Jacopo Simoni, now Researcher Associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory, PhD Thesis: Quantum theory of ultrafast magnetism (2017).
- Dr. Amaury Melo Souza, now Market Intelligence at Vale. PhD Thesis: Molecular electronics: first principles and model approaches (2015).
- Dr. Thomas Cathcart, now Product Development Engineer at Intel. PhD Thesis: A considered application of the Langreth-Lundqvist van der Waals density functional in the context of: open shell molecules, atom centered basis sets, adsorption of graphene onto a Bi2Se3 slab (2015).
- Prof. Awadhesh Narayan, now Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India). PhD Thesis: Theoretical study of topological insulators: model and materials (2014).
- Dr. Sandip Bhattacharya, now Data Scientist Manager at BASF. PhD Thesis: Charge and spin transport through organic semiconductors (2013).
- Prof. Nadjib Baadji, now Professor at Msila University, Algeria.
- Dr. Kapildeb Dolui, now Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Delaware. PhD Thesis: Ab-initio study of the electronic and vibrational properties on low-dimensional nanostructures made of layered transition metal di-chalcogenides (2013).
- Prof. Igor Popov, now Assistant Professor at Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia.
- Dr. Aaron Hurley, now Senior Data Analyst at Think Evolve Solve. PhD Thesis: Spin-flip inelastic electron spectroscopy (2012).
- Dr. Anna Pertsova, now Postdoctoral Researcher at Nordita. PhD Thesis: Atomistic models and time-dependent simulations of spin dynamics in isolated and current-carrying systems (2012).
- Dr. Mauro Mantega, now Maths and Physics teacher at Collegio Vescovile Pio X and H-International. PhD Thesis: Charging, doping, and gating of a single dangling bond on a bare Si(100)- c(4 × 2) surface (2012).
- Prof. Andrea Droghetti, now Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin. PhD Thesis: Electron correlation and magnetism in molecules and solids (2012).
- Prof. Nuala Mai Caffrey, now Assistant Professor at University College Dublin. PhD Thesis: Spin-Dependent Transport in Multifunctional Tunnel Junctions (2012).
- Dr. Sankar Dunga Kesanakurthi. PhD Thesis: First principles studies of molecular spintronic devices (2011).
- Dr. Xihua Chen, now Director (Product Analysis and Design, Portfolio Valuation) at IHS Markit, London (UK).
- Dr. Akinlolu Akande, now Lecturer at Sligo Institute of Technology. PhD Thesis: Computational studies of correlated 1D and 3D systems: a density functional theory approach (2011).
- Dr. Ruairi Hanafin, now Co-founder and Chief Architect of Coffee Discovery. PhD Thesis: Monte Carlo study of dilute magnetic semiconductors (2009).
- Dr. Ivan Rungger, now staff scientist at National Physical Laborarory. PhD Thesis: Computational methods for electron transport and their application in nanodevices (2009).
- Dr. Chaitanya Das Pemmaraju, now Staff scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford (US), PhD Thesis: Implementation of self-interaction free density functional methods and applications to diluted magnetic semiconductors (2008).
- Prof. Cormac Toher, now Assistant Research Professor at Duke University. PhD Thesis: Electron transport in molecular devices (2008).
- Dr. Miguel Afonso Oliveira, now Researcher at The University of Coimbra (Portugal)
- Mr. William Rodger Lee. MSc thesis: Exploring the limits of the self-consistent Born approximation to describe electron-phonon coupling (2008)
- Prof. Malgorzata Wierzbowska, now Assistant Professor at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Prof. Alexandre Reily Rocha, now Professor at Instituto de Física Teórica – Universidade Estadual Paulista
São Paulo – Brazil. PhD Thesis: Theoretical and computational aspects of electronic transport at the nanoscale (2007) - Mr. Nicola Jean, now Director, Risk Analytics – Head of Business Analytics, Illimity. MSc thesis: Inelastic transport in atomic spin valves (2006)