Giovanni Pizzi

Giovanni Pizzi
Giovanni Pizzi
Project leader
PSI, Villigen PSI
+41 56 310 58 24
Materials Software and Data Group
OHSA/D07
Forschungsstrasse 111
5232 Villigen PSI
Switzerland

Giovanni Pizzi was a senior researcher in the group of Nicola Marzari and worked for Platform Project 6 during MARVEL phase I. In phase II, he has led the Open Science Platform. Within phase III, May 2022 – July 2026, he was project leader of Pillar 3, Digital Infrastructure of Open Simulations and Data. Since July 2022, he is group leader of the Materials Software and Data Group at PSI. He was also a member of the MARVEL data team.

Giovanni Pizzi got a "Laurea triennale" (Bachelor of Science) degree in Physics from University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy) in 2006 (grade: 110/110 cum Laude) and a "Laurea Specialistica" (Master degree) in Physics (in 2008) from University of Pisa (110/110 cum Laude) and Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (70/70 cum Laude).

He then obtained the PhD title in February 2012 from Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (grade: 70/70 cum Laude) with a Thesis titled "Band-structure engineering of Ge-rich SiGe nanostructures for photonics applications", under the supervision of Prof. Giuseppe Grosso.

In 2012 he has moved as a post-doc research scientist, and from 2019 as senior scientist, in the THEOS group of EPFL. Since July 2022 he is group leader of the "Materials Software and Data" group at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI). Some of his current research interests include: ferroelectric properties of functional oxides; high-throughput computations and creation of material properties databases from ab initio simulations — he is one of the authors and developers of the AiiDA code; Wannier functions — he is one of the co-authors of the Wannier90 2.0 code — with a particular focus on transport properties.