Foundational first-principles theory of Electronic structure Inverse design of materials
Awards
Boer Medal for fundamental solar energy research (2018) Hume-Rothery Award (2013) Sackler Fellow, IAS Tel Aviv University (2012) Materials Theory Award of the MRS (2011) Tomassoni award (2010) Gutenberg Award, Mainz University (2009) Bardeen Award of the TMS (2001) Rahman Award of the APS (2001) APS Fellow MRS Fellow
Scientific career
Fields
Condensed matter theory of real materials
Institutions
[Tel Aviv UniversityNational Renewable Energy Laboratory University of Colorado Boulder
Doctoral advisor
Prof.J.Jortner and Prof.B.Englman Tel Aviv University
Alex Zunger is a theoretical physicist, research professor, at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has authored more than 150 papers in Physical Review Letters and Physical Reviews B Rapid Communication, has an h-index over 150, number of citations over 113,000 (Google Scholar). He co-authored one of the top-five most cited papers ever to be published in the Physical Review family in its over 100 years' history.[2]
^"Physics - Alex Zunger". physics.aps.org. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
^Redner, Sidney (2005-06-01). "Citation Statistics from 110 Years of Physical Review". Physics Today. 58 (6): 49–54. arXiv:physics/0506056. Bibcode:2005PhT....58f..49R. doi:10.1063/1.1996475. ISSN 0031-9228.
AlexZunger is a theoretical physicist, research professor, at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has authored more than 150 papers in Physical Review...
1019D. doi:10.1126/science.287.5455.1019. PMID 10669409. S2CID 19672003. AlexZunger, Stephan Lany and Hannes Raebiger (2010). "The quest for dilute ferromagnetism...
Density functional theory Projector augmented wave method Marvin L. Cohen AlexZunger Schwerdtfeger, P. (August 2011), "The Pseudopotential Approximation in...
46..828M. doi:10.1103/physrev.46.828. ISSN 0031-899X. Wang, Lin Wang; Zunger, Alex (1994). "Electronic Structure Pseudopotential Calculations of Large (...
Landman 2004 Farid Abraham 2003 Steven R. White 2002 David P. Landau 2001 AlexZunger 2000 Michael John Creutz 1999 Michael L. Klein 1998 David Matthew Ceperley...
6010L. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.8.6010. Perdew, J. P.; McMullen, E. R.; Zunger, Alex (1981). "Density-functional theory of the correlation energy in atoms...
sophisticated approximations have been made in the literature. Wolverton, Chris; Zunger, Alex (15 September 1995). "First-principles theory of short-range order, electronic...
1b1002G. doi:10.1088/2053-1583/1/2/021002. S2CID 119287785. Zhang, Lijun; Zunger, Alex (11 February 2015). "Evolution of Electronic Structure as a Function...
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