Prof Emilio Artacho

Biography

Professor Emilio Artacho arrived at Cambridge in 2001, starting in the Department of Earth Sciences, where he was granted a Professorship in 2006. In 2011 he transferred to the Cavendish. Before Cambridge he was associate professor in condensed matter physics in Madrid. He was Invited Professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (1999) and Visiting Miller Professor at the University of California at Berkeley (2007). He is also Ikerbasque Reseach Professor at Nanogune (San Sebastian, Spain).

Research

Theory and computational simulation of far from equilibrium processes in condensed matter, within the wider field of computational and theoretical condensed matter physics, computer simulation of solids and liquids with first-principles molecular dynamics based on density functional theory and its time-dependent version. Mainly non-adiabatic processes strongly out of equilibrium in matter irradiated by nuclei, but also active in multiferroics and in liquid water and water/solid interfaces (wet systems). Co-starter and co-maintainer of the SIESTA program for linear-scaling first-principles calculations based on density-functional theory and its time-dependent variant.