Presenter

Felipe H. da Jornada is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Before joining Stanford, Felipe received his Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley, working with Prof. Steven G. Louie. He received the best thesis award from the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute at UC Berkeley (2017), the National Science Foundation CAREER award (2023), and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (2024). Felipe’s research group focuses on understanding the electronic and optical properties of atomically thin materials – such as graphene and mono- and few-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) – using first-principles computational approaches. He is interested in employing a combination of new theoretical formalisms and massively parallel computer calculations to understand new excited-state phenomena in materials with applications in energy research, physics at reduced dimensions, and quantum information.