EXC!TiNG Postdocs

Dr. Yann Pouillon

After receiving a top-school engineer diploma in Strasbourg, France, in 1998, I carried out a PhD thesis studying the structural and electronic properties of small CuOn (n=1-6) clusters as well as the magnetic properties of copper hydroxinitrate (Cu2(OH)3(NO3), precursor for a class of hybrid organic-inorganic layered materials) within the DFT framework, under the supervision of Dr. Carlo Massobrio.

After the thesis I worked during one year in Italy at the Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy and the Environment (ENEA) within their ENEA-GRID computing project. I contributed to the Advanced Graphics part of the project by developing software for the visualization of molecules by means of virtual reality as well as for the automation of job submission. In parallel I determined the electronic affinities of the whole series of CuOn clusters previously mentioned.

After what I joined the EXCITING network. My responsibilities cover the M1, M2, M5, and M7 milestones and consist mainly in

I consider that working within EXCITING is a great opportunity for me to both deepen my knowledge of DFT and get valuable experience in the field of excited states. Contributing to the evolution of a key feature of DFT such as exchange-correlation is indeed for me something ... exciting.